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Actually, if there is nothing more interesting to eat, cows and horses will certainly EAT straw. Straw is often used as bedding in horse stall, and many horses eat it. However, straw has about as much nutrition as foam packing peanuts and horses and cows cannot live on such a deficient diet. It's a bit like asking if children eat dirt. Of course they do, but they couldn't live on it. Hay is the proper fodder for farm animals.
No, farm animals like horses and cows eat hay, which has nutritional value, but do not eat straw.
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∙ 12y agoYes. Even though straw is used as a source of bedding, it can and often is used as a source of fodder for cows that are trying to lose weight over the winter months, or as a means to see whether a herd is ready to be switched pastures or not.
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Out of these which one horses dont eat straw carrot alfalfa straw?
Horses will eat all three of those things. Horses are least likely to eat straw.
What do you call the food that horses eat that is shaped like a straw?
Straw xD
What is the difference between hay straw and propane?
the difference between hay and straw is that horses eat hay and straw is a bedding.
Which one of these foods do horses not like Carrot Hay Straw Alfalfa?
straw. that is why it is used for bedding.however horses will eat straw also but it has no nutritional value Horses love carrots, they are a popular horse treat. Alfalfa makes very high quality hay with good nutritional value that horses will eat readily. Straw is dried grass, stems more than leaf, and it is dry, tasteless and has little or no nutritional value. Very few horses will eat it if anything else is available, and some horses will not eat it if it is the only food they have access to. You should not feed straw to a horse.
Why do horses suddenly start eating their straw bedding?
If a horse is hungry straw is similar enough to hay that they will eat it.
What kinds of thing do horse eat?
Horses are herbivores which means that they do not eat meat. Horses mostly eat grass and plants, and things, if they are wild, but if they are domestic, then there is a large agenda of things, such as oats, molasses, hardfeed, grass,( although all horses eat grass, including wild horses) hay, grain, straw, and lots of things more.
Can you eat a straw?
No, not a drinking straw. As for straw as in grass, I guess someone could eat that.
Which will horses not eat Alfalfa straw hay or carrots?
I am sure that it is Alfalfa!! I my riding level one on horse last month with that question!!
What do farmers use to bed their horses?
Straw
What animals eat a Mongolian horse?
Wolves bigtime. People eat horses in some backward parts of the world, sharks won't turn up their noses at horse meat if the horses go swimming, Komodo Moniters will eat horses if they can catch them. Coyotes will keep their distance. In a nutshell, wolves and people.
Will cows eat rice straw?
Yes, cows will eat rice straw, but it has very little nutritional value.
Can horses eat sugarcane mulch?
Although sugar cane mulch has been fed to horse in less developed tropical areas it is not really a suitable feed for equines. It is hard for them to chew and digest and contains high amounts of sugar which is not good for a horses digestive system. There are other alternatives to sugar cane mulch that would be more suitable such as straw ( not pine straw).
