Sections, folds, slices.... how do you refer to a 'piece' of hay?

[connieconvert]

A square...................... nobody in this area has ever misunderstood my meaning.....................so far.

 

[tiggybeans]

It's a flake in this part of Surrey!

 

[lelly]

I call it a cake. Have done for well over 30 years. Don't know where I got it from though. That's another problem with getting older.

 

[emma.is]

It's a page in lancashire!

 

[GinaGeo]

Definitely a cake of hay round me!

 

[pogface]

Wedge. Can't stand the word flake... Makes me cringe... Worst being flakey skin.... Urgh!

 

[Tangled]

Section - never called it anything else - in Essex

 

[Fairytale]

I call it a Section - always have always will (Hampshire). But with the big round bales......have to think about that later when I do me haynets but most likely a Turn comes to mind

 

[StormyMoments]

We call it sections, sometimes slices and my step dad who is old calls them tots

 

[Tapir]

It's a page in lancashire!

I'm also from Lancashire and have never heard them called pages! Where I am they are slices of hay

 

[HaffiesRock]

An IKEA bag!

Thats what I call 3 slices Its my measure of hay. Ill ask the YO to give my pony an IKEA bag of hay

Otherwise, slice x

 

[TickyTavey]

What a great thread! The biggish pieces I know as "flaps", which can be sub-divided into "biscuits"

 

[ZoeF]

We call them a wedge or slice

 

[whoatherejig]

Cake Wad or Doofa

Absolutely love doofa - that's what I call anything I can't think of the name for, i.e. 'pass the doofa'!!!

 

[Crosshill Pacers]

Not sure if anyone else calls it this (didn't trawl through all eight pages ) but I, and all my family, call them 'wads' of hay! Same with straw, as in 'fetch me three wads of straw for this shed'.

Such farmers

 

[Old Bat]

A sandwich from Sussex 45 years ago.....

 

[Hoof_Prints]

Normally call it a slice of hay, have sometimes called it a flake of hay too.

Although I am normally asking relatively non horsey people to get me some, so I often just say a 'bit' of hay, followed by making a measurement in the air with my hands

 

[Gwena]

A slice or section. Did my horsey growing up in Lincolnshire am 34.

 

[ellie11987]

I call them slices in square bales. But we use round bales so they are layers

 

[hollyandivy123]

I have called them flaps for as long as I can remember!

me to they have always been flaps..................were do you hail from?

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

W. Yorks/E.Lancs border - packs, for the last 50 yrs.

 

[Traveller59]

I say section, but OH saays "Bag of Hay" ..... grrrr.... drives me mad!!

 

[Django Pony]

Wodge!! Does no-one else say "a wodge of hay"? Maybe it's a Midlands thing...? I do sometimes call it a slice tho!

 

[Adopter]

When growing up never heard it called anything other than a 'biscuit' of hay.

OH now looks at me blank if I ask him to give ponies a biscuit of hay, so tend to refer to sections!!

 

[MissTyc]

Loving all the variations!

Biscuit or section for me!

 

[MurphysMinder]

I've always called it a pad (North Cheshire), although now I am down in Shropshire most people seem to say section.

 

[Laafet]

In Australia they all seemed to call it a biscuit, over here I use mainly slice, sometimes wedge, never heard it referred to as anything else and I lived all over the country.

 

[iconique]

Biscuit!

 

[kathantoinette]

Never heard of flake, cake or biscuit!!! How strange.

Its a 'flap' in my neck of the woods.

 

[Spyda]

Section.

Anything else would just sounds weird to me!! Especially biscuit?? Why a biscuit? I'm picturing a Rich Tea or Digestive and just can't see the correlation

London suburbs - 45 yrs young.