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Milly101

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Hi all I was wondering if anyone has any experience of using a magnesium supplements? I'm currently doing some research as I think my boy is falling short on the magnesium. The dimagnesium malate sounds really good as its best absorbed and doesn't give the laxative effect like magnesium sulfate or oxide. My boy suffers with bad guts with the slightest change in his routine. The only place I can get the dimagnesium malate in an equine supplement is from the US - Performance equine nutrition (MagRestore is the product) any fellow horse & hound members tried and tested this product? Any info would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks in advance
 
What makes you think he is 'falling short on the magnesium' ? A simple blood test will tell you his status! Better to know than surmise and be wrong.
 
Hi the reason I think he is low in magnesium is because he is displaying 'Spring Fever symptoms'. He has progressively been getting worse over the last couple of months. It's not in his nature to be a stress head and is only usually like this when the spring grass comes through. He bolted when my mum was riding him the other day on the roads - this is not him at all. I know horses have there up and down days but he has more down days at present. He's on pins all time out hacking even in company. He's getting his teeth done next week and jabs so I will get them to take a blood sample. I have read tho that the bloods can give a false reading. Obviously I will rule everything out, I'm not going to supplement him with something he doesn't need, just doing my research at present. He means the world to me and he got me through an extremely bad time in my life so now it's my time to get him through his bad time. I want him to be happy n healthy and back to his usual self so we can enjoy our time together again. He is a well known horse in our area for his lovely, calm personality. He would happily hack round the block with my 5 year old son but at present I couldn't do this. He is also very cresty which I read magnesium is helpful with reducing? Any info would be greatly appreciated on magnesium or any suggestions to what people think it maybe. He was over weight in the summer and has been on a diet, he's now back to his healthy weight again. He currently has one and half hay nets during the day, one at night and a morning feed (handful of safe and sound chop and 1 Apple). Stabled at night and turned out on hard standing during the day due to field being wet but if we have a dry few days we turnout in field. He gets ridden about 4 times a week.
 
It revolutionises my old boy. He can't even bear to have his rugs changed without magnesium. He just has the NAF one - magox I think?
 
Hi. Do you give your old boy it all year round? How did you find out if it was due to magnesium - was it a case of ruling everything out 1st. Thanks
 
Mine is kept on an even keel by magnesium oxide - I know my land is deficient (as apparently is a lot of grazing in the UK) and without it he spooks at stuff he should be well used to. TBH a couple of weeks trial on it is way cheaper than a blood test, that should tell you whether he is deficient without it.
 
I've bought pure magnesium off the internet and it did naff all for my spooky horse, but I can highly recommend MAGIC supplement. Its worked brilliantly for my boy, he rarely spooks at things, and when he does his spook deescalates so much quicker than it used to. I've taken it off him twice in the time he's been on it, and each time within a week or so he reverted back to how he used to be, and was better again a week or so later. That's answer enough for me. He doesn't spin anymore on the road, he rarely shies to the point where he will spin in the school and yet all this was happening before Magic on a weekly basis!
 
The grazing here is magnesium deficient. I have fed Pro Balance for several years. It supplies other minerals which may be in short supply, such as copper.
Be wary of the easily available mag supplements in the tack shops. Many have tiny quantities of it, at a big price. My vet says they are probably human placebo more than anything (still, placebo is still an effect....).
 
Nudibranch said:
My vet says they are probably human placebo more than anything (still, placebo is still an effect....).
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lol, he's probably right! I'm about to put a loony 3yo on Chelated Magnesium Calcium - pretty much a last resort. He's had 2 months on Bromide which seemed to help for a couple of weeks - but he then ground to a standstill. Normally I wouldn't put anything on a supplement without a blood test - but the vet won't get near this one!
 
Nudibranch said:
The grazing here is magnesium deficient. I have fed Pro Balance for several years. It supplies other minerals which may be in short supply, such as copper.
Be wary of the easily available mag supplements in the tack shops. Many have tiny quantities of it, at a big price. My vet says they are probably human placebo more than anything (still, placebo is still an effect....).
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Agreed. I have just started my lot on Pro Balance. Before that, I used to buy magnesium oxide off eBay from intralabs. If you use mag ox, feed 2g per 100kgs of horse. If it's pure mg, it's 1g per 100kg. If you overdose on mag ox, it has a laxative effect. However, one of my boys has quite a sensitive tummy and he's always been fine on the mag ox. If you fee pro balance, there's 6g mg per scoop.
 
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