Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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CCNF at the 2025 AOA National Fleece Show
Three Championships, two Reserve Championships, the Huacaya Female Spirit of the Industry Award, the Huacaya Male Judge’s Choice Award, the Huacaya Get-of-Sire, the Huacaya Produce of Dam, and our 13th consecutive AOA Heirloom Breeder’s Cup for Huacaya Fleece. It is a measure of this program’s success, and our view of where our breeding program has…
CCNF at the 2025 Eastern Alpaca Jamboree
We came, we saw, we…ate? Yeah, ok. So, in some ways, this recent show weekend in Harrisburg, PA didn’t vary all that much from prior ones. Though perhaps with the decidedly curtailed size of our show string — a slightly cheeky fifteen animals, the result of only having had five crias born last summer —…
THIS Guy! CCNF Mjolnir Prepares To Work.
Knowing the odds of producing a legitimate next-level Herdsire male in any given birth class (read: a male WE want and need to use within our program to advance the proverbial ball), we’ve come to count ourselves as legitimately fortunate in recent years. That the likes of Bataclan, Perceus, Priam, Sovereign-Legacy, Idris, Snow King, Camden,…
The Fall Catchup (aka Where Have You Been?)
What’s that famous Twain quote/quip? “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated?” Something like that. There’s been some stuff going on over the past several months, almost all of it good actually — from both a family and alpaca perspective, mind you — but, frankly, not all of it of the nature that has led…
CCNF at the 2024 AOA National Fleece Show: Elixir’s Posthumous Roadshow
Jennifer, the sole driver behind our fleece show entries, decided, on a relative whim, that she would, on second thought, enter 39 fleeces into the primary fleece show at Nationals, after all. After the events of the prior 18 months (you can read about those just by scrolling down elsewhere here at CCNF Chronicles), and…
Thank You to Our Parade of Champions Buyers!
We want to offer our thanks and congratulations to Nancy Chapel of Alpaca Country Estates in Terrebonne, OR, and to Faye and Jeff Farley of Majestic Meadows Alpacas in Medina, OH, for their acquisition of the two beautiful females we had consigned to last weekend’s Parade of Champions auction! Both CCNF Allara (Lot#10, headed to…