Hay is green, livestock eat it. Straw is yellow, livestock sleep in it.
Hay is for horses.
Straw is for soda.
Hay is basically cut grass, straw is the part leftover from harvesting wheat and taking the seeds. Both are baled, but they’re used for different things. Hay is food for any animals that eat grass like horses and cows, buy straw is not edible so it’s used as bedding.
Hay is for horses.
Straw is for drinking.
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.
Hay is for fodder; straw is for bedding and thatching.
Hay is for hoses, straw is for turtles
hay is for horses, straw is for hats
hay is for horses
And cows like you!
A for horses, B for lamb, C for miles, D for Kate etc. etc. The cockney alphabet.
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.
I know everyone that follows this link is guna be like:
“wtf, who posts an entire hour long comedy special in a thread about being uninformed about faming? You couldn’t time stamp the relevant joke?!?!”
To which I will reply:
“I did time stamp the relevant part of the special. Jokes on you cuz it’s a whole fucking hour long joke about not knowing anything about farming!”
Its so funny by itself but its better when you know it was all done in front of an audience chalk full of local farmers. I found it getting ready for a road trip with my 3 y/o niece in the car and was shocked at how laugh out loud funny it was while also being completely G rated. Dude doesn’t even say the Simpson’s swear words: shit, damn or crap.