Table 3.

Analyzed fatty acid composition of experimental diets in experiment 1¹

	O3 trial feed, %
Fatty acid, %	0	1	2	3	4
Phase 1 (days 0 to 13)
Total fatty acids	4.21	4.34	4.72	4.96	4.89
Total fat	4.68	4.82	5.25	5.51	5.44
Omega-6:3	18.57	9.56	6.44	4.94	4.07
C16:0	0.61	0.61	0.64	0.66	0.64
C18:1n9c	1.01	1.01	1.10	1.15	1.12
C18:2n6c2	2.26	2.25	2.36	2.11	2.32
C18:3n33	0.12	0.24	0.37	0.49	0.57
Phase 2 (days 13 to 22)
Total fatty acids	3.95	3.97	4.64	4.53	4.56
Total fat	4.39	4.41	5.15	5.04	5.06
Omega-6:3	15.03	9.60	5.38	4.29	3.78
C16:0	0.57	0.56	0.61	0.59	0.58
C18:1n9c	0.89	0.88	1.03	0.98	0.98
C18:2n6c	2.14	2.11	2.31	2.21	2.17
C18:3n3	0.14	0.22	0.43	0.52	0.58
Phase 3 (days 22 to 41)
Total fatty acids	4.47	4.77	5.01	4.49	4.71
Total fat	4.96	5.30	5.61	4.99	5.23
Omega-6:3	20.69	10.11	6.71	4.86	3.80
C16:0	0.66	0.67	0.68	0.61	0.61
C18:1n9c	1.06	1.11	1.18	0.99	1.03
C18:2n6c	2.36	2.46	2.53	2.17	2.20
C18:3n3	0.11	0.24	0.38	0.45	0.58

¹Complete diets contained trace levels of C12:0, C14:0, C15:0, C16:1n7, C17:0, C18:0, C18:1n9t, C18:1n7c, C18:3n6, CLA 9c, 11t (n7), C20:0, C20:2n6, C22:0, C23:0, and C24:0 of < 0.10%. Other fatty acid levels were too low to be detected in the analysis.

²Major omega-6 fatty acids.

³Major omega-3 fatty acids.