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Opinions on the above please but first a bit of background. My horse can get very anxious at times and then panics and can become dangerous, this has being addressed with the help of a trusted Natural Horse Trainer who has helped build and boost his confidence (he trained with one if the best) and now I am continuing with it. He is fed hay and a sugar free feed along with exercise 6 days a week but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction of which of the above they have tried to help overcome his anxiety issues.

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My horse is a panicer and has RER which makes him worse. I tried equifeast for a couple of weeks but accidentally fed it every day instead of 5 out of 7. Horse became very footsore, just as excitable and the day I finally remembered to take him off it as they say to, I went up the next day to find him wobbling like a bowl of jelly all over, like all his muscle fibres were contracting like crazy. It was like he was tying up but his bloods were normal. I didn’t feed it again after that, the foot soreness went away and he never wobbled like that again. So it didn’t suit my horse and I wouldn’t feed it to him again. I’m now retrying the idea of magnesium oxide having read more around the subject than I had last time (only just started so can’t report back yet).

I should add that his stress/panic has much reduced since discovering and treating sacroiliac injury, ulcers, hayfever, and understanding his RER muscle issues, but he is still a very anxious sharp stressed horse when he does get pushed over his threshold.
 
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Piglet said:
Opinions on the above please but first a bit of background. My horse can get very anxious at times and then panics and can become dangerous, this has being addressed with the help of a trusted Natural Horse Trainer who has helped build and boost his confidence (he trained with one if the best) and now I am continuing with it. He is fed hay and a sugar free feed along with exercise 6 days a week but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction of which of the above they have tried to help overcome his anxiety issues.

Thanks
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Are you sure your not talking about my mare???
Major stress head and spooker, runs to the door with any strange sound, spooks at fairies, leaf changes, snowy days any sudden sounds.

I am currently on Cool calm and collected now we are just sorting the doses and diet now, I recommend the company and talk to them first so they can talk you through whats best.

Now they say the Baileys nuts have a high dose of magnesium (6% )which could be conflicting the calmer as the calmer is calcium based so I need to take her off them. As on the loading dose she was so much better than the maintenance dose

Def worth a call to them............................
 
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For my mare she can be seen as very hot/stressy and therefore put on lower energy diets etc etc, but actually for her it's because she is tired and has less energy that she plays up! Kind of like a tired toddler, IYSWIM. I have found her so so much better on a higher energy feed and getting her fitter.
 
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I don't rate either company but if you made me choose I'd probably go with hack up.
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You couldn't pay me to use either!

I'd start by adding a 50gms of salt and a large dose of magnesium oxide and see if that had any results, if not then you are probably looking at using something herbal but lots of those will be banned substances for competing, so worth checking carefully. I'd check the diet carefully as well. Low sugar is good, but I've found soya, even soya hulls, makes mine a bit ridiculous, so I'd want a really simple diet.
 
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