Poor old Jess had another acute flare up of her breathing 2 weeks ago.
My normal hay supplier keeps bringing me lesser quality bales of 2 year old hay and he’s told me his new cut has clover in it.
She’s had 3 flare ups since June and the one before last was so bad I honestly thought she’d die before the vet arrived, she was down and desperately struggling for every breath and developed colic on top.
I just used my emergency stash of prepackaged meadow haylage and got a big bale in from over 30 miles away, that turned out to be rye ? but anyway 2 weeks of haylage and no coughs and her lungs sounded clear.
I busted a gut yesterday morning to borrow a friends truck and trailer to go get some really nice small bale hay but by last night she was coughing ?
I don’t have running water, or £2.5k to buy a hay gain steamer. I’ve DIYd one but it’s not really practical
My nets just don’t fit in a dustbin! That’s a 6kg net (she gets that twice a day) and as you’re meant to steam hay for an hour doing multiple smaller loads isn’t going to work for me around my job.
Getting haylage is proving very difficult, I just can’t afford to bring in a lorry load from out of area. I’m going to pick up a small bale from someone locally in a few minutes but it’s expensive.
What container can you think of that I could make into a bigger steamer?
My normal hay supplier keeps bringing me lesser quality bales of 2 year old hay and he’s told me his new cut has clover in it.
She’s had 3 flare ups since June and the one before last was so bad I honestly thought she’d die before the vet arrived, she was down and desperately struggling for every breath and developed colic on top.
I just used my emergency stash of prepackaged meadow haylage and got a big bale in from over 30 miles away, that turned out to be rye ? but anyway 2 weeks of haylage and no coughs and her lungs sounded clear.
I busted a gut yesterday morning to borrow a friends truck and trailer to go get some really nice small bale hay but by last night she was coughing ?
I don’t have running water, or £2.5k to buy a hay gain steamer. I’ve DIYd one but it’s not really practical
My nets just don’t fit in a dustbin! That’s a 6kg net (she gets that twice a day) and as you’re meant to steam hay for an hour doing multiple smaller loads isn’t going to work for me around my job.
Getting haylage is proving very difficult, I just can’t afford to bring in a lorry load from out of area. I’m going to pick up a small bale from someone locally in a few minutes but it’s expensive.
What container can you think of that I could make into a bigger steamer?