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I am not aware of ANY studies involving HORSES that identify magnesium
deficiency as a contributor to spookiness.  If you know of one, please point
me at it.  However, I CAN, from my own personal experiences and that of
others peers, associate lack of proper training as a significant factor. I
do not discount magnesium deficiency as a "contributing factor", but IMHO,
considering this a "significant factor" is somewhat of a stretch.

IMHO, a study that "Determined that marginal magnesium deprivation (daily
intakes < 120 mg for 6 weeks) of healthy postmenopausal women results in a
generalized increase in brain electrical activity consistent with increased
CNS irritability observed in individuals with clinical hypomagnesmia. This
was the first study to quantify brain hyperexcitability subsequent to
experimental magnesium deprivation" is not applicable to horses.

Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic 
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If general spookiness can be identified as a good early indicator of
magnesium dificiency, then we would be fools to not consider it first,
rather than dismissing the spookiness as just a schooling problem.

kat
Orange County, Calif.




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