With heavy hearts and deep gratitude, we said goodbye today to SHRA Virtual’s Reality. Though unable to carry a pregnancy to term for the past couple of years, Reality had stayed with us nonetheless, a true powerhouse matriarch who had more than earned her right to merely abide atop the hill here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm….
One of the trends that we’ve really started to see play out here at CCNF over the past 4 or 5 months has been the clustering of mother-daughter (Magdalena along with her adult daughters Johanna and Lilah, Reality and her daughters Nutmeg and Acomani, Sugar Snow and Sugar Drop, etc…) groupings or female sibling pairs…
Mailing it in? Perhaps. The title rather says it all, as will the general lack of non graphic-based content. Some times when writer’s block hits it’s best to just go with it. Thankfully, as I was out shooting some pics of new sales animals we’re getting ready to list, I was also able to get…
There are certain maternal lines within our breeding program that we really cannot get enough of. 5P Cangalli and her daughters Enchantress, Ascension, Requiem, and now littlest sister Sovereign Gemm fall into that category. Likewise for PP Jesusa, her wonder-kids Magdalena and Golden Sovereign, their sister Chalice and the various ensuing tasty offshoots (Moonlight, Johanna,…
So there we were back in August eagerly awaiting the due date of arguably the most valuable colored female on our farm, Reality (SHRA Virtual’s Reality if you seek her out on ARI). How important was/is she to us and our big picture? We already have two of her daughters holding court in our foundation…
