Last but certainly not least for us at the upcoming Futurity Sale in Kansas City is CCNF Dreadnought’s Alexis, coming in the sale order at Lot #33! Maternally speaking — and in case you haven’t tuned into this yet: that maternal mojo is something that is emphasized here at CCNF quite a lot, right down…
We have consigned three animals to the upcoming Parade of Champions sale, this year being held on June 4th, again at beautiful Little Creek Farm/Accoyo America in North Salem, NY. In an industry that has had to get decidedly leaner and meaner in recent times, the POC has endured and is indisputably the most prestigious…
So…about those show results from the combined Empire Alpaca Extravaganza and NEAOBA Fall Alpaca Show (hands down winner of the award for most utilitarian show name, BTW, perhaps a reaction to its previous incarnation when it was know as the Green Mountain Alpaca Fall Spectacular?), that together formed our new favorite show weekend, AKA, The…
As I pointed out a couple of days ago, going to alpaca shows with high expectations can be an exercise in futility and disappointment some times. What you think you have in your show pens and what the judges think you have are not always the same thing. Let us also not forget that particularly…
We had some suspicions about this young fellow when he first hit the ground. He just looked other. Admittedly when we bred Invictus’ dam Opal with his sire, Precocious, we were hoping for something a little darker than beige. Though Precocious is a white Futurity Champion he comes from a paternal line (Jeremiah/Jericho) just as…
Bellagio is admittedly one young boy that slipped through the sales list cracks. He was a relatively late birth in 2010 and as such was really off of our radar screen a bit, not having been ready for show duty yet last spring. As the picture shows, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t worth the wait…
