We are trying a few Google adds on Swallow, horse, dog page. You will need to scroll down the page to see the image until tomorrow when I will get the adds put on the side of the image. The idea with the adds, are that when any person clicks on the to the site we get a payment, not sure how much, but it is going to be something like 1p for so many clicks. We want to see how it goes on a couple of pages, before we make a decision if this is the way we will be going. We have also signed up to another agency, who we will also be trying. The site needs to make some money to pay for the bandwidth that is used when you watch the web cams. Let me know how you feel about them.
Our Springer Spaniel Jade who is now fourteen years old, has had a problem with her breathing for some while. Her Epiglottis that separates the windpipe from the food pipe is inflamed/enlarged that makes her at times choke quite severely. It sound like a human with a horrable cough, you can bet you life she will do it when I am on the phone. There is an operation that she could have had, but the Veterinary advised that because of her age, the operation could well kill her, and that it was not recommended. It was always going to get worse, over the past week it has, to the extent that she is now choking more than not, when she is awake, that now is getting less every week. She has other problems and is finding it difficult to walk to far. Mind you she still manages to be the guts she has always been at meal times. She is now starting to suffer with the problems that she has, we need to make a decision when the suffering is to much for her.
Surely we have got to get a bit of a summer soon. Maybe not, with it raining last Sunday, Saint Swithin Sunday. Can you imagine another forty day, of what we have had in the last forty. The ground is so wet at Denbury I have given up to making any hay this year. The first sign of a few days sunshine we will mow the grass and try to make haylage. the difference between hay and haylage is that hay is completely dry grass, that is baled without being wrapped in plastic. Haylage is grass that is dried with a little moisture left in the grass, it is then baled and wrapped in a plastic film or bag. With the ground being very wet, so wet that your feet leave a deep imprint in it, the sun will have to be very warm to dry the ground, or when you turn the grass to dry it for hay the moisture in the ground will stop it drying completely. Haylage is a hit and miss procedure, if it is not made properly, it will go mildewy in the bag, making it unsuitable for horses. If you get it right most Horses prefer it to hay. the other feed we may be unlucky to have to make is silage, that is grass baled within a day of it being cut. As long as that does not go mildewy Horses will eat it with molasses poured over it. This will be the first year ever that we have not been able to make hay, it is causing concern.