Calmers - opinions please

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Hi

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Opinions - do they work or just a nice Placebo effect?
Which have you used / do you use?
If you think they made a difference which is the best and which made no difference?

I am considering giving one a go.. but would like to hear what people have to say (I have to say, I am a bit sceptical)

Was looking at the Nupafeed Liquid
 
Well I've always thought they were a bit of stuff and nonsense if I'm honest.

However, after last weekends shananigins I've just started my boy on TopSpec calmer.

I did a post last week - which is in stable yard - about calmers. And there are a lot of very useful pieces of information in it.
 
OXYSHOT all the way! I started the season this year with a very tense horse in the showing ring, who exploded with me whenever she was boxed in or horses came up behind her, i had immediate results, with a very focused happy horse, who was oblivious to the others in the ring and just got on with the job, it never made her dopey either.
 
Oxyshot certainly seems to have an effect! I had a particularly hot horse to jump at the weekend and I thought I'd give it just a bit more - 35ml instead of the 25ml. Big mistake - I felt like I was riding the horse on sedalin! Will stick to the 25ml in future as it just took the edge of her without losing the attentiveness. The only issue I have is ending up with it running down my sleeve rather than down the horse's throat!
Has anyone tried Magnitude as an alternative to Magic? Just decided to swap over due to £'s and lots of horses needing it. It appears to be pure Magnesium Oxide whereas Magic is MagCal - I always thought that Mag had to be combined with something for absorption? Is the MagOx in Magnitude the same as the MagOx you can get off Ebay for a fraction of the cost?
 
Have tried most of them going and have always been very sceptical about them BUT oxyshot really works for my mare. very impressed by it.

THought Nupafeed was very expensive and made no difference. Different ones seem to work on different horses though so its trial and error i'm afraid
 
There's been a lot on here about these and the general concencus seems to have been that different things work for different horses, I guess it depends on what is causing it to be excitable to a point. I tried Oxyshot and it was a complete waste of time and money on my horse. I find Equine America So Kalm takes the edge of him better than some others I've tried (the NAF liquid one didn't do anything much either).
Trial and error to a point I think.
 
Thanks for the input, just the sort of stuff I was looking for - AmyMay - will check out your previous post...sorry if I was repeating the subject - should have checked it out first
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i'm a bit sceptical about them, but use steady up powder on my pony before shows, as she's a nutter normally and does lead rein showing with a 6yr old at shows. my mum thinks it has an affect, i'm not so sure. then again, i like her loony, its more fun!
 
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I find Equine America So Kalm takes the edge of him better than some others I've tried

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I agree with that, very useful for XC, (which my horse thinks stands for XCiting).
 
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