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…
“…you are what your record says you are.” – Coach Bill Parcells We are tickled to announce that CCNF Elixir has been named the Futurity Herdsire of the Year (Light Colored Offspring) for the third year in a row! It’s been a nice little run, to put it mildly. We’re not sure where that puts…
We are thrilled to announce that our young Champion male, CCNF Nativity, has been consigned to the upcoming Futurity alpaca sale, which will be held on April 18th in Kansas City, MO! For those that are not already aware, Nativity is the full sibling of 2012 Futurity Judges’ Choice winner, CCNF Elixir, and the maternal sibling…
The temperatures in northern New England have been fairly rude for the past month. Amongst other things, it has meant that the sartorial choices of those of us that work the farm have tended to be long on comfort and short on style, though the cold has not been entirely devoid of redeeming qualities. Parasites…
I have finally got the write-ups done on two of our young up and coming Herdsires: Defiance, who is homegrown and his 1st cousin, Spirit Wind’s Maestro, whom we acquired from Karin and Jerry Young at Spirit Wind Farm & Fiber Studio. Big…
Jen headed up the hill Christmas morning at 6 AM to do the same thing we had been doing for the last month: check on our final due female, Ascension, who had been living in the Arena’s warm room since November. Within minutes the phones were ringing down at the house, phones which I was…
