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[RC] Magnesium? - k s swigart

kp ross wrote:


Does anyone know the difference between Magnesium
Citrate and Magnesium Sulfate . . . which one is better
for horses that are training?


In my experience, the most common compound used for supplementing
magnesium in livestock is magnesium oxide...however, I have used
magnesium sulfate (i.e. epsom salts) as they are a dirt cheap magnesium
supplement.

Truman said:


Magnesium Sulfate is a pretty powerful laxative. I'm not
sure that's a good idea unless needed as a laxative.


You would have to give an awful lot of it for it to have any appreciable
laxative effects on a horse.  When I have used it for supplementing a
horse with magnesium, I have used less than the "recommended dose" for a
laxative in a person. It is only a "powerful laxative" in pretty large
quantities (which is another way of saying that it is a mild laxative
:)).

I have no experience with magnesium citrate.

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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