Thank you, and congratulations to the good folks at Autumn Mist Alpaca Farm, Cabin View Alpacas, and Russel’s Alpaca Acres for their recent purchase of CCNF Lunar Quinton (CCNF Luna Majesty x CCNF Elixir)! We had gone to last week’s Alpaca Jamboree event in Harrisburg with that yearling member of his storied six full-sibling group…
We would like to offer our thanks and congratulations to Terry Passanante of Clover Bottom Alpaca Ranch in Washington, MO, for her purchase of half interest in our Herdsire, CCNF Reign Dancer! The son of Futurity JC winner, CCNF Sovereign-Legacy, and a Kahuna/Matrix cross, TGF Let Freedom Reign (thank you, yet again, beloved Munro family!),…
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…
If you spend more than 10 minutes talking shop with us here, sooner or later we will get around to the topic of the domestic US alpaca herd being far too interrelated. It’s been understood for many years now that the vast majority of elite alpaca genetics here in North America, and particularly those of…
Many, many thanks to the Penica family of Walnut Ridge Alpacas for their recent purchase of CCNF Lunar Reign (CCNF Luna Majesty x CCNF Reignmaker)! How often have we offered to sell a daughter of Luna Majesty? Prior to electing to let Lunar Reign go, we had never sold one of Luna’s daughters and in…
Those of us who were raised in New England as fans of the Boston Red Sox pre-2004 will always carry a healthy pinch of superstition in our DNA. Back when yours truly was still a hormonal, wise-ass 15-year-old, my Dad had suggested that our family get a couple of season tickets at Fenway Park in…
