We came, we saw, we…ate? Yeah, ok. So, in some ways, this recent show weekend in Harrisburg, PA didn’t vary all that much from prior ones. Though perhaps with the decidedly curtailed size of our show string — a slightly cheeky fifteen animals, the result of only having had five crias born last summer —…
Knowing the odds of producing a legitimate next-level Herdsire male in any given birth class (read: a male WE want and need to use within our program to advance the proverbial ball), we’ve come to count ourselves as legitimately fortunate in recent years. That the likes of Bataclan, Perceus, Priam, Sovereign-Legacy, Idris, Snow King, Camden,…
Thank you, and congratulations to the good folks at Autumn Mist Alpaca Farm, Cabin View Alpacas, and Russel’s Alpaca Acres for their recent purchase of CCNF Lunar Quinton (CCNF Luna Majesty x CCNF Elixir)! We had gone to last week’s Alpaca Jamboree event in Harrisburg with that yearling member of his storied six full-sibling group…
We would like to offer our thanks and congratulations to Terry Passanante of Clover Bottom Alpaca Ranch in Washington, MO, for her purchase of half interest in our Herdsire, CCNF Reign Dancer! The son of Futurity JC winner, CCNF Sovereign-Legacy, and a Kahuna/Matrix cross, TGF Let Freedom Reign (thank you, yet again, beloved Munro family!),…
We said goodbye on Sunday to arguably the single most prolific Herdsire in our breeding program’s 26-year history. That Elixir took his final breaths while in the arms of his primary life-long handler, was both a great privilege and incredibly hard for me in equal measure. That was more or less verbatim what I also…
If you spend more than 10 minutes talking shop with us here, sooner or later we will get around to the topic of the domestic US alpaca herd being far too interrelated. It’s been understood for many years now that the vast majority of elite alpaca genetics here in North America, and particularly those of…
