Elixir hits a milestone.

Elixir hits a milestone.

Many thanks to our partners at A Paca Fun Farm for taking our young co owned Herdsire, CCNF Elixir, with them to the VAOBA Alpaca Expo this past weekend where he won both Light Male Huacaya Champion as well as Judge’s Choice Huacaya Male! With his 5th halter Championship at his 5th show (to go…

Letting go…

Letting go…

There were some heavy hearts around here late yesterday afternoon. Though we had known it was coming for quite some time, yesterday was a tough one as we finally made the decision to put down both Legacy Gold and 5P Cangalli. LG, who had lost most of his teeth (front and back) over the past…

Baby Bells

Baby Bells

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…

Baby BOOM

Baby BOOM

The alpacas here at CCNF could care less that their herd manager has been off for the past week making wedding vows, changing her name, and  doing all that gooey cuddly stuff that newlyweds do like staring into each other’s eyes just because they can (hey, been there, done that: it’s pretty great actually…but I…

A nice trifecta

As you may have gathered from posts over the last month or so, the birth ratio of males to females around here this spring and summer has been rather slanted towards the testosterone. It happens. In fact the whole reason the Arena here is the size it is (140′ x 200′ when you include the…