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At 10:25 AM 3/17/2006, Bruce Weary DC wrote:
>   From our "For What It's Worth" department, years ago Wentworth 
> Tellington wrote that if you take a rolled or crimped oat and plant 
> it in the ground, nothing will happen. If, however, you plant a 
> whole oat, it has within it the ability to grow a whole new oat 
> plant. He felt that difference was significant. So, when I feed 
> oats, I feed whole oats. Very unscientific, I'll grant you. But 
> sometimes you just gotta go with what feels right, and that notion 
> feels right to me.

Dr Q:  The difference is live food vs dead.  Whole oats are seeds, 
and are a living food; the rolling/crimping process kills the oats, 
which immediately start losing nutrition.  If a person wants to feed 
rolled or crimped seed foods, then roll or crimp immediately before 
feeding, while there's still the full nutrition there.

I understand that allowing seeds to germinate - not much more than 
barely beginning to sprout - maximizes the nutrition.  My horses have 
mostly hated sprouted oats, by the way.


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