horse hay

noun, a specific type of hay grown to feed horses

“Our island hay had a good reputation, and people knew they grew specialty horse hay.”

“And the horse hay, well nowadays we get in a hurry. We wrap it in big round bales and cows get it. If it happened to be a little bit dusty, that’s detrimental to a horse. They can’t have dusty hay, so you usually want small square bales that you put in a barn under cover and make sure that the horse hay is clean, ’cause horses, their kidneys and their lungs are the main function of a horse. Whereas a cow, a huge volume into the rumen, that’s their big thing. They don’t mind about what they taste or what they smell. That doesn’t hurt, but for the horse, they’re very sensitive, so that’s an industry that’s gone. We don’t have especially horse hay anymore.”