Getting rid of fat pads - over weight horse

Zirach

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I recently purchased an over weight gelding. I have managed to get a good amount of weight off by exercise (although in fairness this could be upped) and restricted grazing in a paddock which has been grazed all summer and has very little on. He is in at night with a small haynet. He has lost a fair amount of weight and I can feel his ribs and his neck no longer has the creasty look BUT he has 2 large fat pads behind his saddle area that will not shift. I would like to do some showing with him but do not want to take him anywhere with these. Any idea on how to get rid of these? A local feed person has said that these sometimes will never go as a result of a horse being fat for so long. Any ideas? I don't really want him eventer fit but are there any schooling exercises that would target these areas?
 
I have an ID mare who even when she was a good weight struggled to lose her fat pads. I turned her 24/7 last year without rugs and they soon disappeared.
 
I read on Internet that there is a supplement you can buy that has magnesium oxide and I believe chromium oxide in. It's called something essence but you can only buy in UK, it helps lami prone horses and horses with creasty necks apparently. They don't sell it in UK anyone heard of anything similar? Will def try massage as well - good idea :-)
 
I could try without rugs this winter but I really want to carry on working him so he will be clipped and need rugging up :(
 
My horse lost his fat pads after owning him 10years when I started feeding mag ox. It must of been that as I had not changed anything else.
 
definatly mag ox works -i had a pony come back from loan so fat i didnt recognise him coming off the trailer! a year later the fat pads are all but gone -i buy mine from pro earth on ebay
 
gunnergundog said:
I doubt it, but am happy to be proved wrong if you can give me links to any legit, scientific papers from recognised institutions, in which case I will book myself in tomorrow! :)
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:)

I have no such studies. I only suggested it as I have been told to massage an uneven muscle on my mare's butt in order to try and reduce it...
 
I used mag ox for a different purpose but it did shift an awkward fat pad my horse had right at the top of his tail
 
Our pony had a cresty neck instead. We gave her Herbal slim (has magnesium oxide and other things) from natural horse supplies with a handful of a Dobson feed for fat ponies. She has no feed, so the problem was how to give her the supplement. She had loads of exercise from the kids. No rugs. And the crest started shifting. ANd her overall weight too.

I looked into MetaSlim (I think is the name) from Simple Systems, they send me a sample that was enough to put the supplement for a week. I think it helps to shift fatty pads as well. But, by then she was almost back to normal.

That was by the end of last summer xx
 
Ive used magnesium for a calming effect on my mare but I have noticed that she has definitely lost her crest she had and big bottom and slimmed down a lot.

I use american equine magnitude (have been using equimins versiom) and its approx £18 for 6 months worth which I think is very good value.
 
I'm using magnesium for my shettie and get mine from Feedmark - I think as long as it's Magnesium Oxide and not the other type of magnesium ( can't remember what it's called but there was a thread on here about it a while ago ) it doesn't make a difference where you get it from.
 
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