See if he’ll make friends with a goat & leave it in the stall with him if you’re able. Works on some.
I"ve used the smartcalm ultra with great success and it’s OK for shows, too.
I’ve used smartcalm ultra with great success and it’s OK for shows. too.
MagRestore from PerformanceEquineUSA!!
My clyde x tb came home frazzled and non-focused. I put him on the MagRestore and within 7 days - I could see a difference.
He took his first “field trip” last weekend off the farm for a clinic. I changed his Mag from 40g to 60g the night before and morning of. HUGE help. He kept his calm and was quite focused the whole time.
It is fabulous stuff! Carla is wonderful and VERY helpful!!
The Chinese herbal Shen Calmer worked wonders for a horse of mine, years ago. It’s available through vets: http://www.tcvmherbal.com/store/topFormula.asp?cid=5
Equilite’s Relax DOES NOT work. My horse was a chronic stall walker so he was pasture boarded since I bought him…until he had a suspensory injury and needed stall rest. He weaved and paced and circled and pivoted on that hind leg for five months. Relax didn’t do a thing except put him off his food (it’s stinky stuff).
The strange thing is that he now loves being in a stall. I don’t know what happened to him but since leaving the farm where he needed stall rest (he was pasture boarded there too), he’s been fine. He’s been in a shedrow with a dutch door, and now an inside stall with bars on the front and one wall, and he doesn’t mind. Maybe it’s something they grow out of at some point. He’s in his late 20s so you have a ways to go yet, but he actually paces the fenceline to come inside now.
I swear by Smartcalm Ultra! Even my trainer asked what I was using, it made a huge difference in my mare. I use the powder since it’s less expensive and she loves it.
I have heard ‘chill’ works to calm horses quite nicely.
May I ask, for those who did, did you start supplementing with magnesium? What symptoms did your horse have?
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Does he have hay the entire time he’s in the stall? I would certainly start with that.
Is it possible to leave him in a pasture 24/7? (I’m guessing not.)
I believe if this were my horse, I’d tie him in the stall, as others have suggested. In the good ol’ days, many horses lived like that. I know it’s not ideal, but assuming you can’t have him out 24/7, I’d probably try this.
For me, I didnt know anything about calming supplements or anything. I just thought that was how my mare was. When I was a working student at a dressage farm here in 2004, the trainer had her nutritionist come by and check out the horses. That was my first time learning that there were other things out there than just feed and hay. He suggested B1 and Mag 3000 from Smartpak to help with her tension and weaving. I tried it and saw little to no difference but I kept her on it for a year hoping that it would “build up” and work. Nope. I tried ex stress, quiessense (sp), mare magic, and quietex. All a no go. So I had come to terms with the fact that my mare was just that way. No supplement was going to fix that. And yes, I address ulcers, feed, turnout, etc. Her being at home and only in to eat did help but not remarkably.
My friend has a very sensitive and reactive swedish wb mare who has tried more things than I have. She heard about the magnesium from Performance Equine and decided what the heck. She had tried everything else. What was $15. She had amazing results and kept telling me about it. I seriously told her NO that I wasnt going to waste any more money on supplements for my mare as she is the way she is.
After 6 months of her telling me to try it, I finally said I would try it ONLY if she would agree to stop bugging me to try it. So I did. And as I mentioned in my posts above, amazing results. I am a firm believer. And I am one of those people where I need to see it to believe it. Well trust me, I believe it and that is why I am so vocal about sharing my experiences with it. Maybe there is someone out there like I was who doesnt know about the difference forms of magnesium and how some horses need a more therapudic dose in a sense to help them. But I had given up and just accepted that was how my mare was. And now, to see how content and relaxed she is with all things in her life, it makes me so happy to know that I finally found something that worked.
