What Does Food for Fodder Mean?

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, rather than that which they forage for themselves.

What does the term food for fodder mean?

1 : something fed to domestic animals especially : coarse food for cattle, horses, or sheep. 2 : inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand fodder for tabloids This sort of breezy plot line has become cheap fodder for novelists and screenwriters …— Sally Bedell.

How do you use fodder in a sentence?

(1) Fodder crops are used to feed livestock. (2) The conscripts were treated as cannon fodder. (3) He was preparing fodder, chopping finely and mixing thoroughly. (4) The pigs battened on the plentiful fodder.