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Well, dang ... yet another vet bill.   Guess I'll have to have  
Caisson's blood tested ... I'm assuming that hypomagnesium will show  
up in a blood test.

I put Caisson on a Magnesium/B1 supplement a couple of months ago - my  
trainer was getting frustrated at his inability to concentrate for  
more than a nanosecond, not to mention his spooking at things that I  
*know* he isn't scared of.  We have both noticed a difference - he  
quit spooking at nothing, and began making some real progress.

Now I guess I'll have to do a "blind test"  :).  I'll have to have him  
tested, then pull the supplement and have him tested again in a month  
and see where he is, as well as see whether my trainer notices a  
difference if I don't tell her I pulled the supplement.  :)

Sigh.

On Oct 25, 2009, at 7:51 PM, k s swigart wrote:

> Val said:
>
> > I'm wanting to put my gelding on both Magnesium and Vit B-1 as
> >  I'm told both of these help in calming down a spooky/hyper horse
>
> Magnesium will only "calm down a spooky horse" if the horse is low  
> in magnesium (since one of the signs of hypomagnesmia can be hyper- 
> reactiveness or hyper-excitability).
>
> If your horse isn't low in magnesium to start with, then adding  
> magnesium won't calm it down.  In fact, unless your horse has kidney  
> disease, adding magnesium to the diet of a horse that already has  
> sufficient magnesium, will just make for lots of magnesium in the  
> urine, since the kidneys just filter out excess magnesium.  But if  
> you give too much of it for too long (prolonged  
> oversupplementation), then it can cause kidney failure.  I don't  
> know how much is too much for too long.
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
>
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