daisycake123 - 2013-11-25 7:39 PM I just know my gelding hates hock boots, i tried on him at the world, he almost jumped out of his stall, i thank bob hess for helping to,hold him and my girls to hold his front leg after i puck it up to snatch off the first hock,boot and to, over to,the other side and once that last boot dropped he was quiet again. Never have seem a reaction like that. I have a cheap magnetic blanket he doesnot mind. Maybe someone could tell me why he did that never have seem a horse do that.

daisycake123 - 2013-11-25 7:39 PM I just know my gelding hates hock boots, i tried on him at the world, he almost jumped out of his stall, i thank bob hess for helping to,hold him and my girls to hold his front leg after i puck it up to snatch off the first hock,boot and to, over to,the other side and once that last boot dropped he was quiet again. Never have seem a reaction like that. I have a cheap magnetic blanket he doesnot mind. Maybe someone could tell me why he did that never have seem a horse do that.

LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2013-11-25 3:46 PM I've been doing a lot of research on magnets lately and from what I've seen, if they use N52 neodymium magnets (the strongest, most permanent and most widely used of the rare-earth magnets, they also have N35, N42, N45, etc. but these are weaker than the N52) they will only lose an average of 1% of their strength over 10 years. So the bell boots will wear out long before th magnets do. With that being said, I did brief looking to see if I could find which type the MagNTX use for sure but it doesn't say. On a side note, I noticed the MagNTX boots use bipolar therapy. Magnets have a north and south pole, the north pole is said to be negative and the south pole is said to be positive. Bipolar therapy, as the name suggests, means it uses both north and south poles. It's been suggested that the south pole (positive) has bad side effects; this is an excerpt I copied from a website. "More rarely used, south pole magnetic energy increases a variety of physiological effects including: bacteria and plant growth wakefulness, inflammation, pain, infection, and changes in animal behavior." Whereas in unipolar therapy (where only the north pole [negative] is facing the body) there seems to be only good side effects. Here's the entire article if you want to read the whole thing: http://www.magneticare.net/research7.html Sorry for the book! I find this type of thing very interesting.

daisycake123 - 2013-11-25 7:53 PM Also would like to know if anyone used bot vs magnets. What does each one do.