2006-09-23 17:35:06 · 13 answers · asked by lily 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Straw is just the stalks of wheat, etc. that can be used for bedding of animals. It is dried and golden-colored right away and it is not very nutritious at all. Hay, on the other hand, is very nutritious and grown for that purpose. Hay is green grass that is cut and then dried. Straw is generally "baled" in easily-handled bundles (bales) and can be picked up by hand. Hay is usually in large stacks along roadsides where farmers and ranchers can get to them right away. Sometimes they are covered in winter. Hay can also be baled though, and when a hay crop fails in one part of the country, farmers who have a good crop will send bales of hay by truck to those farmers who really need it for their animals' survival.
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2006-09-24 00:17:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-15 06:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by woolf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Hay such as oat hay still has the grains on the ends of the grass shaft. That way the horse gets the nutrition of the grain and the roughage of the shaft. Straw, is the shaft which once held the grain but the grain's been harvested and all that's left is the shaft. Horses eat straw or most horses will eat straw, I should say. I bought a bale of oat hay to feed my old QH along with the alfalfa hay he normally got. He promptly took it out of his feeder, spread it around his stall on top of his shavings then stuck his head out his stall window and let me know that he'd done my work of bedding his stall, now it was time for his feed.
2016-04-06 23:05:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-18 02:12:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Straw is the stalks of wheat and other grains and is usually used for aninal bedding. Hay is dried grass of almost any kind which is used for animal feed.
2006-09-23 22:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-01-27 05:48:10 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Straw is the dried remains of harvested grain products such as wheat. It is generally non-edible and is used for animal bedding or mulch. Hay is a living grean plant (clover, timothy, etc) that is cut, left to dry, baled, stored and used for animal feed
2006-09-23 20:04:48 · answer #7 · answered by Neal & Cathy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Straw is the wheat stalks which are inedible. No animals like to eat it. It is used to spread over mud or manure so that it isn't as messy. Cows and horses like to eat hay which is a blend of various grasses and plants. It has no particular recipe-just whatever the farmer has available that farm animals like to eat such as alfalfa or clover.
2006-09-23 17:48:15 · answer #8 · answered by Stephie 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I wonder why you ask, because if you are looking for mulch, one of these is good and one is not. Straw is sterile and is nothing but stalks from which the grain (seed) has been harvested. It's an expensive mulch but is often used in strawberry beds. Hay consists of the entie harvested grass plant and is full of grass and weed seed. It is NOT a suitable mulch because, in effect, you are seeding your garden with a grass crop.
2006-09-24 01:23:59 · answer #9 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Straw is generally some type of grain stalk. It is coarser and harder to chew and digest, providing less nutritional value to livestock.
Hay is grass or legumes grown for animal feed.
2006-09-23 17:51:45 · answer #10 · answered by February Rain 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋