Micronised/Cooked Linseed

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Hi

I've been using the Charnwood Milling Micronised Linseed for years now but my normal feed store was closed over Christmas so I bought a bag of Marriage Linseed instead (didn't think it would really matter). Within a couple of weeks, both my horses poos had turned to liquid and my beds were just brown 🤢

I took them off the Linseed and they went back to normal straight away so I think that must have been what caused it. Has anyone else had this problem? I looked at the breakdowns and it seems like the marriage is more than 10% starch whereas the Charnwood is 3.7% - would that really make such a difference?

TIA 😊
 
I've never heard of Marriage Linseed. I used to buy "cooked" linseed from MFP (Micronised Food Products) with no ill effects. I still don't know why they described it as cooked rather than micronized, it looked much the same.
 
Linseed is Linseed - how its prepared won't really affect the outcome except for the levels of Omega Oils, cooking with water destroys these. Was the Marriage Linseed the ground type? Where you feeding the same weight of Linseed or were you possibly feeding more. Large quantities can make dung looser but generally not to liquid levels, maybe they had upset tums for other reasons - different hay, frosted grass, other changes?
 
Literally nothing changed - measured it exactly the same way - didn't feed any more or less. Both are marketed as micronised Linseed. Weather has been cold but it was still cold when I took them off it. They have the same hay as everything else on the yard and the same as they've been having all winter. It was just very strange - it doesn't really matter as they're fine now but I am curious what caused the change - as you say as far as I was concerned Linseed is Linseed.
 
I did some investigation on this the other week as mum had bought some marriages and we had a long discussion on the barefoot for whole horse health group if you want to read it. The rather loose definition of micronisation is part of the issue I think. Marriage is prepared differently they cook it at 110C iirc (would need to check email) charnwoods treat it with infra red.
 
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