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Cool Stance Copra and Micronized Linseed /Linseed Meal/Linseed Oil
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Michele Goldberg <ladipus@...>
Are any of these appropriate replacements for stabilized ground Flax?..Apparently Triple Crown has a crop shortage on their Triple Crown Naturals Golden Ground Flax which is what I’m feeding to everyone at my farm
-- Michele Goldberg Bernville, Pa joined 5/19/2016
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celestinefarm
Michele, I would stay with regular flax. There are other suppliers of flax , such as Custom Equine Nutrition.
Omega-E – Custom Equine Nutrition Horse Tech- discount for ECIR members NutraFlax (horsetech.com) Manna Pro- could check with company to obtain a larger size if needed. Flax for Horses | Ground Flaxseed for Horses | Flaxseed Benefits for Horses (mannapro.com) Cool Stance is coconut meal, and I don't think it has the Omega 3 profile you are trying to achieve with feeding flax. I'm not really familiar with it so I might be wrong, but it's nutritional claim is that it provides medium chain tryglyceriides. Micronized Linseed from British Horse Feeds is sold through Emerald Valley, the distributor of Speedi Beet. Since we have typically used cold milled flax which preserves the fragile Omega's , I'm having a hard time believing that chopping, grinding and cooking linseed, then drying it to a flake to ship preserves the Omega 3's in the same manner. I also can't find the amount of 3's in the product, they simply list 3,6, and 9. It also only has a shelf life of six months, compared to two years for flax. -- Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary Saline, MI 2003 Tipperary Case History
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Coolstance has twice the recommended level of fat for EMS horses and an inverted Omega 3:6 ratio, IOW, high in Omega 6.
-- Nancy C in NH ECIR Moderator 2003 ECIR Group Inc. President/Treasurer 2020-2021 Recordings of the 2021 NO Laminitis! Conference released to attendees 09.03.21. Veterinary Professional CE certification hours submitted to AAVSB Race 09.08.21 2021 NO Laminitis! Conference Video Recordings available to new subscribers 11.09.21 www.nolaminitis.org
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celestinefarm
Michele, I also forgot to mention that members here buy large bags of stabilized flax from Turtle Mountain Flax, who grow and process flax in North Dakota
.Turtle Mountain Flax -- Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary Saline, MI 2003 Tipperary Case History
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Michele Goldberg <ladipus@...>
Hi Dawn...ok great thank you for listing these other flax options!
-- Michele Goldberg Bernville, Pa joined 5/19/2016
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Michele Goldberg <ladipus@...>
Hi Nancy ...ok thank you ...the website and bag claims it’s safe for EMS/laminitis
-- Michele Goldberg Bernville, Pa joined 5/19/2016
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Many discussions here about this product, the claims and metabolic horses that have not found it "safe".
-- Nancy C in NH ECIR Moderator 2003 ECIR Group Inc. President/Treasurer 2020-2021 2021 NO Laminitis! Conference Video Recordings available to new subscribers until 12.31.21 www.nolaminitis.org
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 06:32 PM, celestinefarm wrote:
Micronized Linseed from British Horse Feeds is sold through Emerald Valley, the distributor of Speedi Beet. Since we have typically used cold milled flax which preserves the fragile Omega's , I'm having a hard time believing that chopping, grinding and cooking linseed, then drying it to a flake to ship preserves the Omega 3's in the same manner. I also can't find the amount of 3's in the product, they simply list 3,6, and 9. It also only has a shelf life of six months, compared to two years for flax. If it is of some help, I contacted BHF about their cooked linseed to ask for the omega 3 content and they said " Omega-3 content is about 55% of oil. There will be some loss due to heating." -- María Durán Navarro Dec 2017 Madrid (Spain) Plutón´s Case History Plutón´s Photo Album _._,_._,_
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celestinefarm
Hi Maria,
Thank you for the information. Almost all the providers of stabilized ground flax here in the states guarantees a shelf life of two years on their flax. They use a "cold" type of processing, in which slow grinding is used to not create excessive heat during that process. Of course, any product that is opened , then left open to air, or damp in a barn is going to go rancid quickly. It's why I think people encounter their horse "suddenly" doesn't like their supplement or refuses to eat it, it's because it's based in flax that's gone rancid.. I try to order what I need for a month , two months at the most, to avoid rancidity. If I do have to open a big bag, such as a supplemental feed or flax,, I remove what I can use in a week or two into another container, then close up the bag tight and keep it in a trash can somewhere with stable temps. I"m not sure what BHF is saying with the 55% of oil . I think people want to know how much Omega 3 is in a recommended serving of product. -- Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary Saline, MI 2003 Tipperary Case History
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On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 05:46 PM, celestinefarm wrote:
Hi Maria, Hi Dawn, thanks for sharing, to my understanding and I could be easily wrong, what most deteriorates omega 3 is exposure to air. I think heating doesn´t destroy too much of the omega 3, so I wonder how can shelf life be so extended up to 2 years once is grinded even at a low temperature, the fat will be exposed to air, just thinking out loud, not making assumptions. I also don´t understand the difference between cooked, micronized and stabilized as they all involve more or less some heat as part of the process. I don´t know if by stabilized, enzymatic processes are stopped like in rice bran por example with lipases and that reduces rancidity. I"m not sure what BHF is saying with the 55% of oil . I think people want to know how much Omega 3 is in a recommended serving of product.I believe they are saying that 55% of the oil content in flaxseed is omega 3 as an average. The technical data of some linseed I have asked for shows between 40% and 65% of omega 3 content. So if oil content in that linseed is 40% by typical analysis, then aproximately half that oil is going to be omega 3 if it is not destroyed. -- María Durán Navarro Dec 2017 Madrid (Spain) Plutón´s Case History Plutón´s Photo Album _._,_._,_
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