Feeding naturally

NZJenny said:
OP you definitely don't need to boil linseed - that's a very old wives tale.

I don't know about feeding hemp seed - I've never seen that here, just the oil and the hemp seed cake, which is what is left over when the oil has been extracted from the seed.
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It seems to be divided. I know that it's not a old wives tale. The quantities needed to poison a horse may be large (as someone else mentioned) but I believe that its not a wives tale.
 
Buddy'sMum said:
Sorry, think I might've misunderstood. If you're just planning to feed a smallish amount of grass pellets as a carrier to mix your supplements than that should be absolutely fine. My lot love them but they are rocket fuel.

ps didn't intend any offence - I spent ages pricing up a bespoke balancer - the calculations gave me a massive headache and surprisingly, it didn't work out any cheaper than buying a ready made one :-)
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Thanks. I can get many products cheaply through my work. So it will probably work out cheaper as I don't pay much above trade cost
 
Buddy'sMum said:
Sorry, think I might've misunderstood. If you're just planning to feed a smallish amount of grass pellets as a carrier to mix your supplements than that should be absolutely fine. My lot love them but they are rocket fuel.

ps didn't intend any offence - I spent ages pricing up a bespoke balancer - the calculations gave me a massive headache and surprisingly, it didn't work out any cheaper than buying a ready made one :-)
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Thanks. I can get many products cheaply through my work. So it will probably work out cheaper as I don't pay much above trade cost
 
rug~addict said:
It seems to be divided. I know that it's not a old wives tale. The quantities needed to poison a horse may be large (as someone else mentioned) but I believe that its not a wives tale.
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Really - why? You an buy whole linseed in the supermarket here, and I eat it every day. If it is so toxic, you will be chucking my in the same hole as my horses.

Boiling it is actually the worse thing you can do, as the two substances that produce the cyanide combine in the steam and possibly the water. So at the very least, when you take the lid off the pot, you inhale it.

Modern linseed (aka flaxseed) has had pretty much all of the toxicity bred out of it, as we eat it these days rather than using it as a paint thinner. I know all of this, because I researched the hell out of it before feeding it to mine or eating it myself, as you would.

But, hey, if old wives tales do it for you, then better stick to them, just be careful you don't fall off the horizon.
 
Seems a little rude! Huge feeds companies are selling micronised linseed. Why would they bother to cook it if it didn't need cooking? Not cooking would be the cheapest option surely?
 
Have a look at Thunderbrook feeds. I've recently changed my two onto their Base mix and meadow chaff and am very pleased. Non GM ingredients and the meadow chaff has a mixture of herbs in it. It is the only feed that my TB has ever ever tucked into and finished. I was sceptical about it, but now I've tried it, I'm sticking with it!
 
rug~addict said:
Seems a little rude! Huge feeds companies are selling micronised linseed. Why would they bother to cook it if it didn't need cooking? Not cooking would be the cheapest option surely?
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Its a marketing technique called "value added" which works the exact way you have explained above. There are loads of things large companies do that are not in their customers best interest but in the shareholders. If you do nothing else never believe marketing hype always do some research. One thing with feeding ask yourself why are you feeding (or anything you or anyone else does with their horses) why you are feeding it - what is the reason for adding this or that.
 
Holly Hocks said:
Have a look at Thunderbrook feeds. I've recently changed my two onto their Base mix and meadow chaff and am very pleased. Non GM ingredients and the meadow chaff has a mixture of herbs in it. It is the only feed that my TB has ever ever tucked into and finished. I was sceptical about it, but now I've tried it, I'm sticking with it!
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Thanks. I'll have a look.
 
Linseed is micronised to stabilize it. Whole linseeds are stable too, but the outer hull needs breaking to get the nutritional benefit, otherwise the whole seeds just go straight through the gut.

So you can either grind the linseed fresh every day (needs to be ground every day as it goes rancid very quickly), or feed it boiled (needs to be done every day), or you can get the micronised linseed, which is stable, and doesn't go rancid.

For me it is more time-economic to buy micronised as I then don't have to spend 15 mins every day grinding fresh seed (or two hours every day boiling/cooling)
 
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