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Fatty acids as far as the eye can see. Abundant sources of balanced fats for horses are found in fresh grasses and forage.
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Feeding fats and oils to horses

Too much of a good thing can cause a myriad of problems for horse health

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Over the past two decades feeding a variety of fat and oil sources to horses has become an increasingly commonplace dietary practice. The role of fat in the horse’s diet has been oversimplified to that as a fuel source. Although this is partly correct that fats can act as fuel molecules, it is equally critical
Recent research says fish, like these chinook salmon, may be the better source of omega-3 fatty acids.
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Not all omega-3s are created equal

It turns out the source of these healthy fatty acids is important

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Fish or flax? That’s the question researchers from the University of Guelph have been trying to answer when looking at the cancer-prevention qualities of various sources of omega-3 fatty acids. David Ma, a professor in the university’s department of human health and nutritional sciences, says so far fish is coming out on top. His work
Studying the benefits of grass-fed livestock
Livestock, Opinion

Studying the benefits of grass-fed livestock

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It’s unlikely that University of Toronto researcher Richard Bazinet will include on his resumé the fact that he had a whole room of farmers holding their noses. But it was actually an effective demonstration of good taste, not smell. Bazinet passed around jelly beans and asked people to plug their noses as they placed one
Livestock, Other livestock

People aren’t the only ones to get late-winter blues

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Late winter and early spring mark an interesting conundrum on the equine calendar. Prolonged winter weather conditions, declining nutritional values in feed, and lack of movement within confining snow boundaries and winter paddocks challenge the health of even the hardiest of horses. So it is not uncommon that particular illnesses occur and are aggravated as
Livestock, News

Animal fats not so bad after all?

For several decades, substituting vegetable for animal fats has been the standard advice for preventing heart disease. But a new study published on the British Medical Journal website bmj.com suggests otherwise. Vegetable oils are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), of which the most common in western diets is omega-6 linoleic acid. British dietary recommendations
Livestock, Oilseeds

Kansas company markets flax-fed ground beef

A Manhattan, Kansas company has started to market omega-3-enriched ground beef from cattle fed with flax. NBO3 Technologies worked with Jim Drouillard, a Kansas State University professor of animal sciences who has been researching the addition of flax to cattle diets to increase the omega-3 fatty acid content. Omega-3s have been shown to reduce heart
Crops, Oilseeds

Nutraceutical firm seeks borage growers

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Borage has been prized for its curative powers since ancient times. In Roman times, the naturalist Pliny regarded it as an antidepressant, and a famous herbalist from the 16th century wrote that a syrup made from borage “comforteth the heart, purgeth melancholy, and quieteth the phrenticke or lunaticke person.” For Prairie farmers who may fit
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Deep-Fried Foods Can Fit In Healthy Diet

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Although people have been “trained” to think that low fat equals healthy, we actually need some oil in our diet. Oil is made up of three kinds of fatty acids. Based on their chemical structure, oils are a combination of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Our body can’t make the polyunsaturated fats found in
Beef cattle, Livestock, Oilseeds

Omega-3 Beef Trial Falls Short

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Beef researchers hoping to emulate omega-3 enriched pork, poultry and eggs by adding flax to cattle diets are finding it’s easier said than done. In order for beef marketers to slap a Health Canadaapproved label on beef touting it as a source of the “good” fat that helps prevent heart disease and stroke, the meat

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