Hay and straw?

Straw does indeed consist of the stems of wheat, oats, etc., but it is also
edible and is not sold as fodder. It just does not taste as good to horses
and cattle as hay does--unless the straw is really good and the hay is
really awful. Straw is used on farms as livestock bedding. Animals will eat
it if they are hungry.

Susan Felker
Virginia Museum of Natural History
(and part-time horse breeder)



Ann wrote: ">My limited agricultural experience agrees with you. Hay is
dried grass,
>straw is the stem of a grain crop such as oats, wheat etc. Straw is not
>edible, hay is edible.

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