TopSpec? Magic Calmer? Magnitude? Or all a load of rubbish!

I think you sound sensible and I bet this time next year you will look back and smile! You will get there, it's hardly surprising you are confused.
Don't forget to enjoy your new horse! Mares alway take longer to get a bond with than geldings but when you do click it's ultra strong and she will do anything for you.
Just keep on, don't let yourself get put off! Honestly she'll just be fine on a load of hay and a handful of chaff for now untill you get to know her better. Keep it simple it wont hurt her. Grass coming through soon and that is
always a fun time!
She will settle and become easier. It's good you are having the lessons. makeit easy on yourself as well. If she looks sprightly and its raining dont choose that day to hack go in the school or lunge instead. Save the more challenging stuff for a sunny calm day. Just keep going that is all I can say, do something with her as often as you can. As the weeks, months go past everything will fall into place.
 
Having a new horse is often a bit scary to begin with, for both horse and rider!

Don't force yourself to ride every time. There's nothing wrong with bonding with the horse on the ground and both of you learning to trust each other.

Fiddle about with her in the stable, take her on walks about the place, have a go at lunging her and if and when you do ride, can you have a trusted friend by your side (either on foot or horseback) rather than having to keep paying for lessons?

I also don't believe in calmers and have tried a couple on my spooky mare to no avail. (Though one of my friends swears by Magic!) What I have only recently discovered (after 18yrs of ownership!!) is that when I've got a competition goal and a fitness plan and am doing a lot of everything, my mares' ace. But when I've had easy competition years (like the last 2) she's a nightmare and has scared the life out of me several times with her antics.

Some really do like being busy. I used to take Rosie on 6hr hacks on a regular basis with plenty of roaring about. I haven't had the time in recent years, but she needs it if she's to stay sane!

(I don't think my body can take that amount of riding any more, though I can get off and walk!!)
 
To be honest, all of the above will only work if the horse in question is short in magnesium. And magnesium is in pretty much every off the shelf feed, so it would be unlikely she is lacking in it.

Actually my horse was worse on shed loads of magnesium, I put him onto Equifeast Cool Calm and Collected and the red mist stopped descending!!! He was particularly bad in all honestly.

I am not saying he is perfect now, he is still spooky when passing the 'killer ducks' or the 'killer wet tarmac when the rest of the road is dry' or the 'killer pheasant springs out of the hedge' or the killer lllamas decide that life is very exciting and canter about in their field!!!

If the magnesium hasn't worked after a week, then it won't work.

Look into Equifeast and see what you think.

Also remember, it is spring, although there is not a huge amount of grass, mine is just full of himself. Jogging up the road constantly and just happy happy happy!!!

I am wondering whether after over six months on a balancer, he is finally balanced, and the 'balancer' is too much for him!!!

I will wait for a couple more months and see, and if he is still the same, take him off the balancer - clearly too much energy then!!!
 
squidsin said:
I've been looking into calmers (although frankly it would probably help if I took them rather than my horse) for my somewhat neurotic new mare. Do any of them work? I've been reading about magnesium deficiency and she does exhibit the symptoms, although as she's a new horse, that could just be her personality! You can't feed too much magnesium, can you? Is it just excreted if so? The owner of my local equine supplies recommended TopSpec. Any thoughts? I definitely want something natural as I don't know enough about equine nutrition to mess around with anything else. Thanks in advance!
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tried top spec
tried magnesium
tried global herbs

all were as useless as a colander on the sea on mine

magic is the only one that works OMB
 
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