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Location: Texas | Can anyone recommend a "focus" supplement? Don't necessarily need "calming". The horse is calm enough, but he LOOKS at every little thing. It is like he has ADHD, can't keep his focus. I have taken him to the local arena numerous times during the week and rode him around and practiced the barrel pattern. After eventually getting over all the boogers and strange things to look at there, he was doing great! So this past Saturday night I took him to the same arena to exhibition him before the barrel race. He could barely lope the pattern. Scared of the blue trash can, scared of the rail road tie laying along the edge of the warm up, scared of a hose laying in one of the pens next to the alley, etc. He was zig zagging all over the place, looking at every little thing, I could barely get him thru the pattern. He was not listening to me at all! Took him back to same arena this morning and he high loped the pattern PERFECTLY! He is "looky" here at home too (deer off in the distance, something strange hanging on the fence or in the barn alley, etc.), but has gotten better. It is not a sacking out issue because he totally doesn't mind being sacked out. It is things in the distance or things that weren't there before. He has been on the Curost Adapt & Calm daily. Even gave him a dose before we went Saturday night. Didn't help. He is not nervous or excited. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Equine Mushroom Matrix ECP. it's fantastic. I used it with my stud during breeding season and it helped him to focus on me, rather than mares |
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Location: Oklahoma | THE has a Smooth Focus that works really well. Can be added to a daily supplement or fed alone. |
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Location: Georgia | I changed my horses diet to renew gold and alfalfa cubes and added Cur-Ost adapt. I saw a huge difference in my horses this past weekend after only making these changes earlier this last week. He is also on and has been on for about 2 weeks T.H.E muscle mass with ulcer, immune, and focus additives. |
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Location: Texas | As I said, he has been on the Curost Adapt. Just not enough for this guy. |
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Location: Texas | clover girl - 2016-06-27 12:59 PM THE has a Smooth Focus that works really well. Can be added to a daily supplement or fed alone.
Do you have first hand experience with THE Smooth Focus? Can you give me examples? |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Focus paste (created by Sherry Cervi) and made by Oxygen. It takes the "lookiness" out of them and just helps them concentrate. Doesn't take the run out etc. |
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Location: Texas | JLBerry - 2016-06-27 1:04 PM Focus paste (created by Sherry Cervi) and made by Oxygen. It takes the "lookiness" out of them and just helps them concentrate. Doesn't take the run out etc.
Thanks, but need something a little more economical than the Oxygen Focus paste. Something I can keep him on daily. He is not being entered yet, and I can't spend $15/dose just to exhibition.  |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | In the Zone by Animal Element really helps one focus and does not take any run out. |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | TBone - 2016-06-27 1:12 PM
JLBerry - 2016-06-27 1:04 PM Focus paste (created by Sherry Cervi) and made by Oxygen. It takes the "lookiness" out of them and just helps them concentrate. Doesn't take the run out etc.
Thanks, but need something a little more economical than the Oxygen Focus paste. Something I can keep him on daily. He is not being entered yet, and I can't spend $15/dose just to exhibition.
Maybe try the relax pellets then. I have used them on a personal colt that was very "watchy" on the ground. It helped him a lot. $79/60 day supply. |
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Location: Georgia | TBone - 2016-06-27 2:02 PM
As I said, he has been on the Curost Adapt. Just not enough for this guy.
The biggest thing I did was a diet change. Getting the digestive track and the stomach happy mad a different horse. |
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Location: Missouri | Animal Element In the Zone Paste is amazing. We use it on all ours at a show so they will stay focused! |
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Location: So. Cali. | Animal Element - In the Zone Paste
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| Sounds like something that just a magnesium supplement would really help with. Your horse sounds like a classic case of a magnesium deficiency. The great thing is magnesium is rather inexpensive. |
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Location: Texas | I was considering the Magnesium issue. I tried it on him before, but he ended up having a different issue which is now resolved. So might try the magnesium again. I just switched him to Triple Crown 30% which has 16.3gm of magnesium per 1.5 lbs. The Performance Equine Nutrition MagRestore has 2gms per scoop, loading dose of 4 scoops would be 8 gms. Don't know how bioavailable the magnesium is in the Triple Crown 30% vs. the MagRestore. |
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Location: Oklahoma | TBone - 2016-06-27 1:04 PM
clover girl - 2016-06-27 12:59 PM THE has a Smooth Focus that works really well. Can be added to a daily supplement or fed alone.
Do you have first hand experience with THE Smooth Focus? Can you give me examples?
Yes I do. I feed it to the calf horse daily. He is very fractious and had ADD that kicks in when he is in a perf. He forgets to keep the rope tight. I added THE focus back into his supplements and he started working like he does at home.
I added calming at first, but that made him too dead and he wouldn't run. So the calm was not what he needed it was the focus.
I have not used it on my barrel horse, he doesn't seem to need it. |
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Location: Texas | I may have to try the Smooth Focus. This horse does NOT need calming. He is perfectly calm, but can't keep his attention on me or the job because he is too busy focusing & boogering on every little thing that he isn't used to seeing. Things that would never bother any other horse i.e. blue garbage barrel, rail road ties laying in a pile, a water trough in a holding pen along the alley, etc. Normal things that are not scarey at all. But until he gets a good look at them and sniffs them, he thinks they might just eat him. If I pick up my over & under I guess he decides I am scarier than the object and gets over it. |
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