New Study?

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

No, not at all Spicy! I love to have new info but I just hope that everyone keeps in mind how vague a lot of these studies are.

I promise that if ANYONE, human, ewe, bat, rat, or cat, went from eating a balanced diet to eating nothing but oats, they're gonna be swaying pink. That doesn't mean that oats are not a good blue food, because they clearly are.

There are no magic foods - you can conceive a girl eating roast beast and a boy eating cranberries and milk, because it's what is going on inside your body that sways and not what you put into your mouth. Any time you switch from a balanced diet with lots of variety of heathy and nutritious foods, to a limited diet based only around a few foods (esp. when those foods are CARBS) you are going to be swaying pink.

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mmmmmm...roast beast, sounds delish. how do you prepare it?

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First, you have to catch the beast! You'll need some L-arginine to attract the beast, a bazooka to shoot it with, and threescore stout men to haul it back!

I think oats are probably making the ewe's bodies a bit less healthy and that's whats swaying pink. Ewes should be grazing on grass:

One of the problems with feeding a lot of cereal grains is that they are high in phosphorus and low in calcium. Feeding a diet that is high in phosphorus and low in calcium can cause urinary calculi in wethers and intact males. Inadequate calcium can lead to milk fever in pregnant or lactating ewes.

Excessive intake of grain or sudden intake of grain can cause numerous digestive and metabolic problems in sheep and lambs, including enterotoxemia (overeating disease), acidosis (grain overload), feedlot bloat, and polioencephalomalacia.

That last condition sounds crazy!

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Originally Posted by lindi

I think oats are probably making the ewe's bodies a bit less healthy and that's whats swaying pink. Ewes should be grazing on grass:

One of the problems with feeding a lot of cereal grains is that they are high in phosphorus and low in calcium. Feeding a diet that is high in phosphorus and low in calcium can cause urinary calculi in wethers and intact males. Inadequate calcium can lead to milk fever in pregnant or lactating ewes.

Excessive intake of grain or sudden intake of grain can cause numerous digestive and metabolic problems in sheep and lambs, including enterotoxemia (overeating disease), acidosis (grain overload), feedlot bloat, and polioencephalomalacia.

That last condition sounds crazy!

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I am inclined to agree lindi! Sheep are notoriously prone to various weird diseases.

Interesting read