TradiLin - History
In the beginning was grass...young Spring grass is the best feed for many animals because:
- they have improved levels of production of milk, meat, etc
- there is an improvement in the quality of products (eg cheese-making yield, spreadability of butters, tenderness of meats, etc)
- they exhibit an improvement in health
|
Omega 3 as a percentage of total fatty acids |
|
| Spring Grass | 60 |
| Algae | 60 |
| Linseed | 55 |
| Fish | 30 |
| Rapeseed | 9 |
| Soyabean | 8 |
| Sunflower | 1 |
| Maize | 1 |
TradiLin Mimics the Fatty Acids of Rich Spring Grass
In the 18th and 19th Century, thousands and thousands of hectares of linseed were grown in the UK mostly for fibre production (linen) with the oil-bearing seed (linseed) as the by-product.
Traditionally, farmers would use this linseed for feeding their livestock
during the Winter period . The seed was soaked, boiled and mashed before
being fed to the over-Wintered stock.
With the arrival of cheaper soya imports from America, linseed cultivation
gradually began to die out and so the practice of feeding stock with linseed
declined.
In the Early 1990's Valorex recognised the link between Spring grass Omega 3 content and the quality of animal feed products, and how to ensure animals consumed a diet rich in Omega 3 throughout the year.
The result was TradiLin.
