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Mrs B

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... a calmer to try for a friend's ex-racer.

He's a sweetie but just a bit too anxious about life and stuff. Friend is trying to alter day to day things slowly to help the situation, but what are your experiences of a not-too-expensive calmer to try? (I am bearing in mind that what suits one horse doesn't work for another and some of these remedies are pretty pricey if they don't suit!)

Thankies and I have some paprika with lime chicken with rice left over, if you're hungry....

:)
 
My YO and her daughter swear by NAF Magic calmer, I have no experience but they have used it with success on several different horses. I believe the key is magnesium, some horses get stressy due to a magnesium deficiency, by supplementing with a megnesium based calmer it brings the magnesium levels back to normal and has a calming effect. If the anxiousness isn't caused by a magnesium deficiency the calmer wont help - apparently why they seem to work on some and not others. :)
 
Thanks, Walrus.

I used Nupafeed for my boy, but only because I heard (quite rightly in his case) that it could help with head shaking.

I do rate it for that and I know others who use it as a calmer, but it's quite expensive to try if it doesn't work.

Will look into the NAF one :)
 
Ta, QB! Valerian is lettuce, isn't?
Always used as a sedative years ago... Sounds interesting!

This is when I wish I'd met my late Grandfather! He was a homeopathic vet in London and when you consider he was born in 1899, that was a rarity!
 
I have just put my horse on NAF Magic, as he was spooky when ridden and used to just stop dead abd stare at things and start dancing :)

With the NAF Magic, when my two little ponies start galloping round the field, he doesnt start doing the same, when he is in the field he is always staring at things and now he is calm, quiet although magic doesnt affect the performance, so when ridden he is nice and fast for jumping, but in general I can cuddle him without him suddenly running to the front of the stable becasue he has spotted something!

NAF magic all the way
 
The active ingredient in the vast majority of calmers is magnesium. It will only have a calming effect if the horse is deficinet in magnesium. Instead of buying magnesium plus fillers in a fancy horsey box at an enormous mark up, just buy the magnesium! I use Magnesium oxide as it is the most bio-available of the forms of magnesium that are widely available and reasnobly priced. (I get mine from here http://www.naturalhorsesupplies.co....84-Magnesium+Oxide+%28Heavy%29+900g++%A31049/ this one is about 3 months supply.) If your horse gets loose on it then reduce slightly the amount you are feeding. I wouldn't feel tempted to use epsom salts instead as although these are magnesium salts the magnesium isn't very bio available and in order to get suffcient magnesium into your horse you will have to feed more of it and it can irritate the stomach.
 
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