Can magnesium work within two days?

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Tiffany Blue

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I usually for whatever reason in my head believed it would take a week to take effect. As I have previously posted, I was feeding for weight control of a native living out, I then ran out and realised I should change from Epsom salts to magnesium oxide.

Suddenly I realised maybe magnesium does help with a stressed horse, as my boy reverted back to his scared of everything phase which we went through when I first had him during the time I had ran out. I couldn’t believe it, couldn’t catch him and he just didn’t want to know.

Once arrived, he had been on his magnesium oxide for two days and had already gone back to normal. It’s been 4 days now and he is following me around the field again, whinnying and ears pricked a lot more which makes me happy. But could this really be the magnesium? If so, it’s surreal as his mood change is beyond anything I can get my head round.
 
Not sure, but I think those calmers in syringes can be given a few hours before you need the effect to take place - they contain magnesium so I would guess it takes effect quite quickly?
 
It can work very quickly there was a horse on the old yard that couldnt stand straight and staggered around within hours of having magnesium oxide it was on its feet and was walking and grazing round the field. thought it may be something else so the owner decided to take it off the mag ox due to costs and within days it was again staggering around and falling over back on mag ox hours later it was fine
 
I did try a syringe whilst waiting for the magnesium oxide to come and didn’t notice it to be of any help. His not awful, just very nervous but it’s strange as you can tell it’s not naturally him, as he has no malice. I just can’t explain how much he clicked back into his happy self after a couple of days, it’s surreal.
 
Tiffany could you link to where you got it from please?

I've no experience of it but it sounds like good stuff!
 
Is the grass starting to grow? If so could be high in potassium which will affect mag absorbtion, in affect you are balancing the high K with Mg. Feeding salt will also help.
 
I started feeding it to my big uns before the grass came through, having read that spring grass is low in magnesium and that this is actually why they're lunatics on the spring grass.

Nothing seemed immediately different about Ollie, but the pigheaded, boisterous, skittish appy has turned into a big softie overnight. In hindsight, I've been turning Ollie out last and bringing him in first to try to tackle his separation anxiety issues. He hasn't so much as done a nervous poo all week, let alone called or paced anxiously whilst waiting for the others like he normally would.
 
I put my mare on it months ago, I wasn't sure how quickly it worked or indeed if it worked until I ran out and within a couple of days she became a quivering wreck, calling to her friends and not standing still, all her muscles radiated tension! So it can certainly stop working pretty quickly and I got some asap, she was back to normal pretty much straight away bless her! Weird!
 
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