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We’re back, baby?! We’re out of hiding? We couldn’t think of anything better to do the weekend after Memorial Day? I’m still workshopping this stuff on the fly. All joking aside, we are thrilled to announce, perhaps a touch belatedly, the two lovely females we have consigned to the upcoming 2026 Parade of Champions Auction…
Announcing CCNF’s Consignments to the 2026 Parade of Champions!
We’re back, baby?! We’re out of hiding? We couldn’t think of anything better to do the weekend after Memorial Day? I’m still workshopping this stuff on the fly. All joking aside, we are thrilled to announce, perhaps a touch belatedly, the two lovely females we have consigned to the upcoming 2026 Parade of Champions Auction…
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…