We had our week of training and now have been watching the farm for our
wwoof host, while they are in British Colombia on a 2 week family vacation. Week one alone is just coming to an end and what a crazy week it has been! Our first day went well...we thought until we woke up the next day and found all three of the goats had gotten lose and were all tangled up by the house front door in the pouring rain - We also saved two little black birds that were trapped in the wood stove that day too! Day two we woke up to two dead father hens(picture of what a father hen is below in case you didn't already know!) for some odd reason we think diddy their little dog had gotten to them as they were found in the barn were the dogs sleep at night...Day three there was a tornado warning and in the middle of all that the rabbit got lose and we had to chase it all over the yard! Day four was a happy day, as a calf was born, Mommy cows udders are really enlarged so we may have to bottle feed this little guy - We named him Indiana. Yesterday we woke up to a dead cow! We could not believe it! although it was no fault of ours it still didn't feel very good as we promised we would not kill any animals! LOL! Luckily we had some help with all this cow stuff from our hosts' friend who is the "cow guy"! We could not be more happy that he was only a phone call away. We waited a very long time for the dead livestock guy to come and had MANY kind people stop to let us know we had a dead cow smack dab in the middle of the field. The guy who came to get the poor girl said he thinks she passed away from complication during trying to birth! :(
Please keep in mind we have never farmed in our life so this experience has been crazy, but amazing! We still have one week left and I really hope everything stays breathing!
Cheers for now!
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| Terri Saving the little birdies stuck in the wood stove |
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| Yes one did get away on us, but we eventually got him outside |
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| father hen- about the size of a pigeon |
baby calf's first steps!
