>>>> ps. on another front, i have had two people who have lived in Iceland confirm the feeding fish/fish-oil story. apparently it's loaded with nutrition, which icelandic winter pasture grass is not. in the usa it is probably cheaper to obtain flax oil or somesuch for similar goodness for coat and hooves and heart and connective tissue.
Oh for goodness sakes, let's get real here! Janice brought this issue up as a lark, a Janice-ism. Somehow, this has turned into folk wisdom...YIKES. Janice, see what you did? :) Vicka, if there's anything Iceland is famous for, it's the "sagas". They are a people of a great story-telling history. As you would say, "just sayin'." That's neither a condemnation nor praise. But, when people start literally taking some of these old "spins" as sage nutritional advise...oh, spare me! How gullible can we get?!! Of all the old myths, sagas, whatever, I've heard about Icelandic horses, I have NEVER heard the story of the barrels of salted herring promoted as nutritional wisdom until this thread. Never. The only way I've ever heard this story spun was as that during times of severe hardship, the farmers put out barrels of fish because that's all they had. It wasn't for any "essential fatty acids" they provided. It was for pure SURVIVAL. There was no grass. There was no hay. They DID have fish. If you want to get literal, I'm sure the Donner Party consumed some great nutrients in their infamous winter during the 1840's...but do we want to play THAT into a modern-day nutritional trend? Hey, their diet was even organic! What the Donner Party did was a matter of simple survival too... Horses don't eat fish of their own accord. Let's drop this subject and get sensible. Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.6/1150 - Release Date: 11/24/2007 5:58 PM IceHorses Community for Photos and Videos: http://kickapps.com/icehorses "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
