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Fodder vs. Hay — What's the Difference?

Fodder vs. Hay — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fodder and Hay

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Fodder

Fodder (), also called provender (), is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage).

Hay

Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep. However, it is also fed to smaller domesticated animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs.

Fodder

Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.

Hay

Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.

Fodder

Raw material, as for artistic creation.
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Hay

(Slang) A trifling amount of money
Gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay.

Fodder

A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply
Romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.

Hay

To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.

Fodder

To feed with fodder.

Hay

To make hay on (a patch of land).

Fodder

Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

Hay

To make (grass or other plants) into hay.

Fodder

(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.

Hay

To feed with hay.

Fodder

Tracing paper.

Hay

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.

Fodder

(figurative) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.

Hay

(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.

Fodder

(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.

Hay

(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.

Fodder

People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.
Cannon fodder

Hay

A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

Fodder

(dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).

Hay

(obsolete) A hedge.

Fodder

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19½ to 24 cwt.; a fother.

Hay

(obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.

Fodder

That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

Hay

(obsolete) An enclosure, haw.

Fodder

To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

Hay

(obsolete) A circular country dance.

Fodder

Coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

Hay

The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

Fodder

Give fodder (to domesticated animals)

Hay

To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.

Hay

To lay snares for rabbits.

Hay

A hedge.

Hay

A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.

Hay

Grass cut and cured for fodder.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.

Hay

To lay snares for rabbits.

Hay

To cut and cure grass for hay.

Hay

Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder

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