Magnesium calmer and sugar beet?

[Seahorse]

Is there some sort of link between them? I'm sure someone told me once that if you feed the 2 together the calmer works even better.
Axel has been on magnitude for ages now but has been very lively over the last few weeks, this week I've started giving him a small amount of speedibeet and he's completely changed into a very nice calm horse. Had the best ride ever on him yesterday in the forest with my friend

 

[teddyt]

I would say its a co-incidence or some ther reason. Sugar beet is a good source of calcium, which actually competes with magnesium for absoption sites in the gut, so i dont think they help each other

 

[Nosey]

...no and it def won't work if they have a sugar intolerance like mine has...sent her completely off the wall!

 

[Helbert]

Correct me if I am wrong (and I am sure someone will - lol).
But if you need to feed your horsey a calmer, maybe Sugarbeet isn't the best feed. Sugarbeet tends to be high in energy etc, may be an idea to feed a low cal feed. Fast Fibre is the same sort of thing, but without the sugar etc. This might help..?

 

[spaniel]

Sugarbeet is high in FIBRE which creates calorific heat when its digested in the hind gut. (Which is why its good in winter to keep horses warm and fleshed).

Its exceedingly rare for a horse to hot up on it. A whole sack full of sugarbeet pellets contains less than a standard household bag of actual sugar (1kg) and less 'heat' than good grass. (The pellets are a byproduct of the sugar refining industry so every possible bit of useful 'sugar' is already removed for our own use).

Given the amount of SB we usually feed its generally incorrect to blame it for silly behaviour.

If anything its possible that, in theory, it may slow down digestion thus mimicking natural feeding which could then have the effect of calming a horse.

 

[Ems147]

Speedi Beet is non heating and is unmolassed so now crazy behaviour even from the craziest of show ponies!

 

[Seahorse]

when i say sugar beet i meant speedibeet! It is totally non heating and very high fibre i really don't know why people think its a heating feed.

 

[TGM]

Spaniel, I think your statistics must be based on non-mollassed sugar beet (such as Speedibeet) which is only 5% sugar. Standard mollassed sugar beet (such as Supabeet) contains about 20% sugar, which according to my dodgy maths would mean 5kg of sugar in a 25kg sack.

But I do agree that beet is an excellent food, but the unmollassed version is probably a safer bet for anything that gets whizzy on high sugar food.