fodder
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Fodder is feed grown or produced specifically for livestock animals like cattle to eat. It matters because it provides necessary nutrition for farm animals and can be produced in customized ways, such as through fodder factories, to meet the particular dietary needs of different herds.
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- Common plants specifically grown for fodder
- Types
- Health concerns
- Droughts
- Sprouted grains as fodder
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thumb|upright=1.1|right|A fodder factory set up by an individual farmer to produce customised cattle feed
Fodder (), also called provender (), is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage). Fodder includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, and sprouted grains and legumes (such as bean sprouts, fresh malt, or spent malt). Most animal feed is from plants, but some manufacturers add ingredients to processed feeds that are of animal origin.