Micronised Linseed and unwanted weight gain - advice please ?

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Considering feeding micronised linseed to our 15yo 14.2hh pony as been told it acts as an excellent anti-inflammatory addition to feed due to Omega 3 fatty acids - pony has hock arthritis but has been kept hacking sound through Feedmark Best-Flex HA.
Pony is a good weight - mainly due to a restricted grazing type paddock - but would put weight on if allowed to graze on good grazing.

Pony was given Linseed oil at a previous yard and his coat was fantastic, he didn't put weight on, but mainly due to lack of grazing !
Am I risking weight gain now even though grazing is certainly not lush but he is out for about 8hrs and hacked 5-6 days a week.

Also, am I right in thinking it's non-heating energy too ?

Benefits and Cons (if any) please, thank you very much.
 
I feed a small amount to my mare, for her arthritis and her itchy skin. She manages to keep her weight off with restricted grazing and soaked hay, I think if you're not feeding too much it should be OK. I give a 50ml scoop of micronised linseed per day. Whether that's enough to do any good I don't really know!
 
Micronised linseed and linseed oil are different benefits.

Micronised linseed is good for coat / skin / muscles / gut and has essential amino acids. Does contain some oil but not much.

Linseed oil is high in omega 3 oils. But not the amino acids.
 
There isn’t really a non heating energy. Calories are calories.

micronised linseed is a reasonable DE / energy level but it’s not high starch or high sugar so you should be okay.

Some people say micronised linseed makes horse excitable but that’s rare. And think depends how much feed. A Stubbs scoop a day would be pretty high energy feed. A mug a day not so much.
 
It made such a difference to my elderly pony in terms of mobility that I started sprinkling some on my breakfast as well. I feed it year round. I haven't noticed any wild behaviour because of it.
 
I feed half a mug to my very fizzy, prone to weight gain little sports horse. She looks fantastic on it. She used to suffer from dreadful scurfy skin but her coat now is great and her skin has cleared up.
 
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