What do you call slices of hay?

[tankgirl1]

A slice, Derbyshire

 

[Lyle]

Biscuit! Although some friends when I was younger called it a leaf, so that's an alternative I use when people look at me blankly when I call it a biscuit

 

[joosie]

I'm glad I'm not the only biscuiteer!

 

[Cowpony]

I learnt to ride 45 years ago in Yorkshire and back then we called it a wad. At my current yard in Berkshire we call it a slice, but when I'm not thinking I still call it a wad.

 

[fburton]

Leaf (Scotland).

 

[RubysGold]

Weird. I never realised there were so many words for it.
If someone asked me to get the horse a biscuit of hay I would be very confused!!!
I call it a leaf of hay

 

[arlosmum]

A page!
Learnt my stuff in Maltby, South Yorkshire in the 70s, we called it a page & I've called it that ever since.

 

[rabatsa]

A flap.

 

[criso]

A cake of hay (Lancs)

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I grew up calling it a cake of hay in South Devon but I say slice or section these days as no one in Herts/London knew what I was talking about

 

[Northern]

I've heard that! A young groom starting her first live in job was asked to give her charges two biscuits each last thing at night. So she did, from her own stash of digestives...

The challenges of our language When I first introduced dad to "biscuits" he thought it was very odd, now he gets super excited if he is allowed to give my horse her "biscuit" of hay!

 

[cremedemonthe]

Surrey/section

 

[GoldenWillow]

Section, North West.

 

[scats]

Slices, north west.

 

[View]

Leaf (Scotland)
Section (London/Herts/Essex border)

 

[Otherwise]

My old yard manager called it a toast but I've never heard that since I left. I call it a section or slice.

 

[AandK]

Section. I was a bit confused the first time I heard it called differently! Had no idea there were lots of words

This!!

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Section, wedge or slice (Surrey)

 

[ElliePippa]

Slab

 

[colly66]

I grow up in Bedfordshire in the 80's and always called it a biscuit and still do now I live on a farm in wales. My welsh farmer hubby nearly fell over laughing the first time I said it !

 

[splashgirl45]

used to be in essex and now in suffolk and always called it a section....

 

[Kezzabell2]

haha this is something that I've been thinking about recently.

I say slice or section.

I was at work and said to my colleagues "Sam has no grass in his field, so I've got to go up at lunch time and give him a slice of hay" they all cracked up laughing thinking it sounded like I was going to give him some toast!

My YM calls it a tuck - which I've never heard before?

 

[MuddyMonster]

I've slways said a slice or section in West Sussex.

I've never heard of a flake, a biscuit or a leaf of hay!

 

[riding_high]

Section. I'm originally from west wales. I don't hear it called a section much anymore it's, flap, wedge, biscuit, fold and anything else you can think of.

 

[*Sahara]

Just a bit of musing really , I've heard lots over the years but today I heard it being called a 'fold' of hay ...? I usually just say a slice or a section . In years gone by I would've said a leaf but I tend not to use that now. What does everyone else call them? Is it a geographic thing I wonder ...

I call them Slides live in the west midlands.

 

[LouisCat]

Me: wedge
OH: flake
Yard: biscuit

So confusing at first!

 

[Minnies_Mum]

Am I the only one that calls it a flap?

No, I was reading down thinking I must be the only one!

 

[MDB]

Flake.

 

[kathantoinette]

Am I the only one that calls it a flap?

I'm in East Yorkshire and we say flaps of hay!!!

 

[Wagtail]

A slab of hay.

 

[Bertolie]

I say slice but my husband who grew up on farms insists it's a wad! We are SW.