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2. Timothy (grass) - Wikipedia

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   Hurd named the grass "hurd grass" but a farmer named Timothy Hanson began to promote cultivation of it as a hay about 1720, and the grass has been known by its present name since then. Timothy has now become naturalized throughout most of the US and Canada. It is commonly grown for cattle feed and, in particular, as hay for horses. It is ...

3. Alfalfa - Wikipedia

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   For small animals and individual horses, the alfalfa is baled into small, two-string bales, commonly named by the strands of string used to wrap it. Other bale sizes are three-string, and so on up to half-ton (six-string) "square" bales – actually rectangular, and typically about 40 cm × 45 cm × 100 cm (16 in × 18 in × 39 in). [5]

4. Hay - Wikipedia

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   Hazards include the danger of having a poorly constructed stack collapse, causing either falls to people on the stack or injuries to people on the ground who are struck by falling bales. Large round hay bales present a particular danger to those who handle them, because they can weigh over 1,000 pounds (450 kg) and cannot be moved without ...

5. Bale handlers - Wikipedia

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   The type of bale handling attachment will be built to handle the particular size and type of bale. Bale spears can often move both round and square large bales. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Bale squeezes are used with bales that are wrapped for silage , [ 5 ] large piles of large and small square bales, [ 6 ] as well as a special squeeze that can be used to ...

6. Phleum - Wikipedia

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   Phleum (common name timothy) is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family. [4] The genus is native to Europe, Asia and north Africa, with one species (P. alpinum) also in North and South America. [5] They are tufted grasses growing to 20–150 cm tall, with cylindrical, spike-like panicles containing many densely packed ...

7. Equine nutrition - Wikipedia

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   Grass is a natural source of nutrition for a horse. Equine nutrition is the feeding of horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, and other equines. Correct and balanced nutrition is a critical component of proper horse care. Horses are non-ruminant herbivores of a type known as a "hindgut fermenter." Horses have only one stomach, as do humans.