Seminole Calm and Cool Reviews?

[hunterjumper98]

Has anyone had any success with Seminole’s Calm and Cool for a generally hot/spooky horse? I’ve had my young (6) Hanoverian on Seminole’s Dynasport for the last few months, but he has lit up like a bonfire undersaddle.

I’m starting to believe that Dynasport is just giving him too much energy to work with to the point where he is unfocused and jittery. However, I can’t decrease his grain intake past a certain point or starts dropping weight again. It doesn’t make it any easier that he is athletic as all get out haha! I am also suspecting some minor ulcers at play just due to his nervous nature, but he improved with the addition of 1/2 # soaked alfalfa cubes twice a day to up his forage intake and add some buffer. I’m also debating on possibly adding some type of ulcer supplement to his grain, but I am honestly clueless in this department. I’ve never dealt with ulcers before.

I just purchased a bag of Calm and Cool this afternoon and am excited to try it out. I was suggested this feed by my local feed store when I mentioned that he is just a generally hot horse. The claims on the bag seem promising and the NSC doesn’t look too crazy from what I can tell. Of course, I am no feed expert. It definitely smells yummy and looks very high quality, but of course, Seminole makes amazing products. My horse’s coat has never looked better.

Has anyone had any successes with Calm and Cool or have any opinions on it? I’ve researched the threads, but I really can’t find much on it. Please educate me!

[piedmontfields]

I have not used Calm and Cool but my boarding barn full of athletic eventers (and my little Iberian mare) do very well on Seminole Dynasport (higher fat, 14% NSC). It really helps the hard keepers stay in good condition. But of course that was not a good fit for your horse.

Call a Seminole nutritionist to find out more details about Calm and Cool. I wonder if your horse is responding to an ingredient? (ex. soy) Not all feeds are appropriate for all horses.

[Second_Star_To_The_R]

I used it with one of my saddlebred mares with great success. She came to us with some issues aside from being a saddlebred. A sinkhole had formed under concrete walkway used to take horses back and forth to the arena. The concrete gave way underneath her when she was three. To get her out of the hole, some not so bright people whipped her rear while pulling her head. She would lose her mind if you tried to put her on concrete and heaven forbid you applied ANY pressure to her head with a halter. Ofc no one told us about this until after she nearly killed us and herself when we put her in cross ties on a concrete pad. She worked herself into severe EGUS and hindgut ulcers and lost so much weight she looked like an animal cops model. Broke my hand in seven places because she spooked and I hung on to her halter. was awful to shoe. She was just a mess.

Shes awesome now. It took a lot of work but we got her there. We treated her ulcers first then changed her to the calm and cool afterward. She stayed on the feed until she went to 24/7 pasture. I would not have fed her anything else.

forgot to address your ulcer question. Alfalfa is good for hindgut support. If you suspect ulcers, get your vets opinion. The only way to really know is a scope. There are some pressure points that are pretty reliable if you can’t afford a scope. Omeprazole treats ulcers. It’s the only approved treatment. There is so much info on ulcers and so many supplements available it’s hard to know what to try first.

Its tougher with horses you need our need to keep conditioned but remember they are built to eat all day long. They should never go more than four to six hours without something to eat. A slow feed hay bag is a Godsend with ulcer horses.

My vet has me giving my boy the new purina outlast supplement. It’s different in that you feed a whole pound (ish) depending on weight. It can be top dressed or fed alone as snacks between meals so that helps keep the stomach doing what it wants to do which is never being empty basically. I have no idea how it is priced as my feed store is giving it to a few confirmed ulcer horses free in trial because it’s so new. The bag lasted me about two weeks. Dexter gets it 4 times a day as a top dressing. May start skipping one top dressing and feeding it as a midnight though. I will say I should have waited until I was done with gastrogard to start it but I panicked when he went back on equioxx.