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Very little money for fodder (11)

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I believe the answer is:

chickenfeed

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'very little money' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'for fodder' is the wordplay.
'for' becomes 'chicken' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fodder' becomes 'feed' (fodder is animal feed).
'chicken'+'feed'='CHICKENFEED'

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(Other definitions for chickenfeed that I've seen before include "very little money" , "Small potatoes" , "Not much money - for the birds" , "Very small amount of money" , "mash, perhaps?" .)

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