Re: Re: Body fat and endurance

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

 Barley was expensive for the bedus.
> Beside dates camel-milk was one of the energy sources for their foals, and
war
> mares. And camel-milk contains high levels on protein, fat, and.. sugar.
> Very seldom a horse was ill, or lost, through this crude diet. I would
say,
> feeding is a question of getting used to it. In this case, in centuries.

I went back to some research that I did ages ago for an article on the
nutrition of dates and found that the oil in the seeds contain the following
fatty acids: lauric, 8%; myristic, 4%; palmitic, 25%; stearic, 10%, oleic,
45%, linoleic, 10%; plus some caprylic and capric acid. In addition, the
dried dates themselves are pretty high in calcium, phosphorus, contain
whopping amounts of potassium, and tryptophan. So it looks like they'd be
getting fatty acids and the carbohydrates if they got both seeds and dates.
As for forage, the Arabs I know will eat just about bloody anything
including cotton t-shirts.  Dorika was always snitching the bread from my
kids' kebab sandwiches and, aside from the odd snotty groom, never showed
much taste for meat.
The basic diet here now is heavy on barley, tho' we have a locally produced
pellet that gives some forage ration of a sort year round.
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg


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