We arrived in QU about 10am (we left at 5am.).
First Gord (the farmer guy we met last thur at a business meeting) took us un a tour or his farm. We saw his chickens, rabbits, hens, ducks & new born Lambs!
Gord was gonna take us on a small tour of the sheep field, when he saw a mother sheep with a foot sticking out of its backend.
He said finally, I've been looking for this one all morning, my daughtor saw her yesterday.
The sheep was laying down & he asked us to give him a hand. Rob held her down (she never struggled anyways) & I patted her face. Gord touched the leg & said yep. its dead.
Gord said the other front leg was in the wrong place, so he was trying to pull it straight & the whole leg ripped off
It was soo gross, it was rotten too. Gord thinks the lamb died days ago fo rhte leg to come off like that.
Gord was not a happy farmer, he said the lambs eye sockets r huge, so he had to gently stretch the poor sheep down there.
He ended up trying to crush the skull with his hands cause the poor sheep couldn't stretch anymore.
We gave her a break & then tried again. 30 mins later or more he finally got the lamb out. Its head was not normal at all, no wonder she couldn't pass it.
So gord took the dead lamb & asked us to keep an eye on her & make sure she didn't get up. Poor thing didn't even try to.
Gord gave her an antibotic shot & tried to get her to stand. She wouldn't even try to stand. so he carried her & prop her up on the side of the barn in the shade to recover. He said it usually takes 30 mins or so after dropping a lamb to be running about again.
Gord took us on a tour of his farm land.. lets just saw WOW!!!
On our way back the sheep still hadn't moved. Poor thing. Nothing can be done but hope she gets up.
Gord then took us on a tour of the area. We went to a flea market & then stopped at a local pub for a late lunch. As we were eating, guess who stopped by?? The hells Angels
We went back to his farm & got ready to hunt the problem Coyote. Hes known to show up between 4-6pm. However the stupid thing never showed up!!
We sat in sheep poo, pointy rocks & I was attacked by an evil plant that killed some skin on my hand & arm; for 2 1/2 hours.
We gave up & went to have dinner. We were having some of the farms lamb mmmmm.
On our way back to the house we decided to check on the sheep. She was now on her side with her eyes closed. Rob gently pushed her with his foot & she was really hard. We looked at her back end & it was HUGE & there was lots of blood.
Were guessing she had internal bleeding & a really bad infection that caused her to bleed out & die. Poor girl. She tried her darnest to fight too.
Then we were ready to take off & the wife said, what? ur not staying at the Champlain?? We said we should go tonight cause we have to be at another farm by 10am.
She said well, if u guys leave at 5am again, u can be at the other farm for 10am & stay at the Champlain.
So we agreed to stay & Gord took us to the Champlain.
We had NO idea what or where this Champlain was. We pulled up to this nice house & he took us in.. Lets just say we were in HEAVEN!!!!
The place was a dream! It was huge, lovely & comfy. It had a washer & dryer, shower, towels, sattlight TV, & a top of the line Queen bed!!!
Rob & I enjoyed our stay in the lovely place & let at 5:10am.
For someone we only met on thur. have become good friends. They were awesome people & sooooo friendly. They want us back sometime next year or any OFF season (they rent the house out during the winter for skiers) & stay in the CHamplain for free!! We can bring friends or just us. If we fly in they will pick us up at the airport & then all the fun will begin again!!!
So ya, we had a WONDERFUL time
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