THE EARLY YEARS OF TEXELS IN CANADA
Authors Gordon and Reta Young- Thorndale, Ontario, Canada.
- We hired Samson Transportation to act as our agent and to arrange all shipping procedures. Samson
is a European wide livestock exporter. They served us well. Samson sourced a charter flight, Martinair,
out of Copenhagen to Chicago with fuel stop at Mirabel. Sounded too good to be true.
- Scheduled for Dec. 28. We had to blood test the 18 head
- On Dec. 20 Ottawa advised they couldn't get their paper work completed. Samson saved us having to
pay for the flight.
- Jan. 88 we had a very angry meeting with Ottawa, we reached agreement that the sheep would fly on Feb.
13. Another blood test was demanded and the sheep had to be flown from Jutland to Amsterdam
- The crate must be sealed in Denmark and was not to touch any soil until Mirabel
- They were to remain at Mirabel for 45 days and then they would be isolated at Thorndale for 60 days.
Blood testing would be done in and out at Mirabel and possibly at the end of the 60 days
- Mid March we were informed that most of the sheep were testing positive for several diseases. Another
test in March supposedly showed only nine ewes were positive. We were refused any details on the tests
and were told we could not see the test records. Another test in early April different animals were
showing positive for only Chlamydia. 8 ewes and 1 ram. There would not be further tests and 9
animals were going to be destroyed
