Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoI don't know the difference between hay and strawmessage-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down110
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareI don't know the difference between hay and strawPossibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up78·edit-21 month agoHay is mowed from a meadow. It’s fine natural dried long grass with occasional herbs and flowers. It’s still greenish. Straw is the rough homogenous stalk leftovers of mowing agricrultural plants like rye or wheat.
minus-squarefouloleron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoThis is correct. Hay can be used as fodder for animals, whereas straw cannot. It can be used for many other purposes, however, like animal bedding, building material, decorating your suburban yard in fall…
minus-squareoverflowingmemory@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoCan cows eat straw? Or can they only eat Hay & enjoy that more?
Hay is mowed from a meadow. It’s fine natural dried long grass with occasional herbs and flowers. It’s still greenish.
Straw is the rough homogenous stalk leftovers of mowing agricrultural plants like rye or wheat.
This is correct. Hay can be used as fodder for animals, whereas straw cannot. It can be used for many other purposes, however, like animal bedding, building material, decorating your suburban yard in fall…
Can cows eat straw? Or can they only eat Hay & enjoy that more?