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fodder as in: cattle fodder
We have plenty of hay and fodderfor the animals.
food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals
Fodder is typically composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop.
Fodder has many reasonably common, but highly diverse senses. Accordingly, it is generally recommended that you just learn the sense (or senses) that currently interest you.
"Bagheera spoke truth," he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
Once they’d drained the bowls she filled, suddenly she struck with her wand, drove them into her pigsties, all of them bristling into swine—with grunts, snouts—even their bodies, yes, and only the men’s minds stayed steadfast as before. So off they went to their pens, sobbing, squealing as Circe flung them acorns, cornel nuts and mast, common fodder for hogs that root and roll in mud.
Homer -- The Odyssey
Or give us a team of oxen to drive, purebreds, hulking, ruddy beasts, both lusty with fodder, paired for age and pulling-power that never flags—