fodder

All good fodder to see if I could really block out my mental chatter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Productivity has not been high enough to offset this decline, he said, notably because of rising fodder prices, workforce shortage and higher wage costs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

James Scobie KC, representing Lavrynovych, said he was a "complete and utter foot soldier" and "fodder for this type of infiltration".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

While she no longer spends much time working with clients of Longwell Partners, leaving that to her 25 employees at the firm, the focus groups provide fodder for the Bulwark’s podcasts and articles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

“You owe me for using me as fodder for your rant.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

The amount will be influenced by the character of the fodders and by the season when the cattle are to be sold.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

Only feed which is of good quality and only grain and coarse fodders which are free from dirt and mould should be used.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George

It is preferable to feed meal admixed with cut fodders.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

After these come grain fodders, corn and sorghum fodders, and fodders from grasses, suitable in the order named.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

Dode only smiles at his deep cogitations, as he weeds the garden-beds, or fodders the stock.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

However abundantly provided for, when a flock are foddered sometimes at one hour and sometimes at another—sometimes three times a day, and sometimes twice—some days grain, and some days none—they cannot be made to thrive.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

Before offering to sleep, Dell collected all the articles that were to make up the pack, foddered the horses, set the alarm forward an hour, and sought his blankets for a short rest.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy

The fruit is also valuable for provender, as animals foddered with it speedily get quite fat, while its wood, growing with great rapidity, is in much request for fuel.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

So I went out again and foddered and watered the mare, for Peter is sometimes a sad fatch and will not always give a horse what is worth its trouble in the eating.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

Father sends me out to mend gaps that were mended, or cut turf that was cut, or fodder horses that were foddered.

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Mayne, Rutherford

The ploughmen take their dinners in the sheds where the mules are allowed to rest; and since two hours is usually given these animals, for rest and foddering, they, of course, must take the same.

From Step by Step; or Tidy's Way to Freedom by American Tract Society

He came from foddering the cattle in the barn, and from the field, where he had been ploughing, until the depth of the snow rendered it impossible to draw a furrow.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Every judicious farmer who depends on turnips for foddering his stock in the winter, will do well to guard against the loss sometimes occasioned by the failure of his Turnips from frost and wet.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

Tommy Eye, teamster, stumbling towards the hovel for the early foddering, came upon him, and stopped and stared in utter amazement.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

A man leading a horse to water, or foddering his cattle from a stack in a snow-covered field, or following his plough, is always pleasing.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John