Seasons of Change

Seasons of Change

We lost Jen’s Dad, Rodney Croft, this past December. While we know that the mortal coil waits for all of us, as the first of our four parents to leave us (and far too early, at the age of 76), Rod’s sudden death was a real gut punch. Given our line of work here on…

Weaner Time

Weaner Time

I hope everyone reading this has had a safe and enjoyable Holiday season given the challenges and realities of the world as it currently stands. The most recent (and in relative terms, welcome) drama around these parts, was going from having 41″ of snow fall on 12/17, leading to what could have potentially been the…

Mid-Winter Meanderings

Mid-Winter Meanderings

Hello and greetings from the currently snowy and chilly side of the freezing/thawing see-saw that Mother Nature has gifted us here so far in 2019. Applying the jinx here of course but we actually had a period of more sustained cold towards the end of November than we had in late December (oh 2018, we…

Happy Weanerdays!

Happy Weanerdays!

  So, it has begun. “It,” being the first members of the CCNF birth class of 2015 getting weaned from their dams. One of the great advantages to managing our crias the way we do, is that when an animal is weaned, it is almost always in the company of the other crias it has…

The Parasites We Love…

The Parasites We Love…

That is the term of endearment around these parts for our crias as they approach 6 months of age and continue, often without real need or cause, to suck valuable calories off of their dear mothers. While we know that there are many alpaca folks out there who wean based upon a cria’s weight, we prefer to…