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?
Hay is for horses.
Straw is for drinking.
Hay is for fodder; straw is for bedding and thatching.
Call me a hippie all you want, but I usually go back to Pink Floyd lyrics when I get confused which one to use.
“Straw you, out there in the cold…” Just doesn’t sound right.
There was a Beatles song about the straw man logical fallacy, wasn’t there?
Straw Jude
Getting lonely, getting old
Man. Love Pink Floyd.
hay is for horses, straw is for hats
A for horses, B for lamb, C for miles, D for Kate etc. etc. The cockney alphabet.
Hay’s the best.
Straw is shaped like a straw…
Hay is like grass, it basically is grass really.
Yea, hay is a generic term for grasses used as feed.
Ok, so if you pull up the entire plant, you get the roots, stem and leaves. I guess straw would be another word for the stem and hay for the leaves.
From different plants. Straw is from, I think, cereals (wheat, barley, etc) whereas hay is from grass(es?).
Hay is for horses, and straw is for mcdonalds cups…which apperently now employs slave labor.
I remember being told even horses can’t get nourishment from straw. But it has other uses. Mixed with mud it can make bricks, it can be burned for ash, it absorbs gross fluids, it can provide padding and insulation.
Hay is food, especially in winter.
Hay is for hoses, straw is for turtles
