Hay

Hay is dried grass (and pasture flowers) used to feed domestic animals

Related Topics:
Grass - Flower

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at places or times where there is not enough (fresh) grass or when fresh grass by itself is too rich in some qualities for easy digestion by the animal. It is normally produced at the end of the flush of the season after allowing excess pasture paddocks to grow until just before the grasses flower. The pasture is mowed and allowed to dry in the sun for two or three days. Drying can be hastened by "tedding" with a machine. When dry the hay is gathered, possibly into bales (in the U.S., traditionally rectangular ones, though rolled bales or "rolls" have become common in the late 20th-century) by a baler, and put into a stack or under shelter for storage until needed.

Related Topics:
Pasture - U.S. - Rectangular ones - 20^th-century - Baler

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