Way back in January of 2002 we were, to my knowledge at least, one of the first alpaca farms to start using cardboard bedding on a large scale. Though I don’t have an exact number, I would say that since the construction of the Arena in the summer of 2003 we have constantly bedded down…
The warm room at the Arena pretty much paid for itself today. Jen went up to do morning check this morning at 6AM and found that Blossom had given birth to a happy, healthy, dark fawn female. That the baby was up and walking with mom’s placenta already expelled and cold means that it was…
We’ve spent the last 5 days or so shifting the farm into it’s winter stance and I’d been meaning to (and probably still will) snap a photo or two to show you all what that entails. Of course I thought that with our pastures essentially used up for the season that we were just being…
Just a quick one here updating you on the status of our c-section girl, Seraphim. 24 days after the rather dramatic birth of her little girl, Avalon, both mom and cria seem to doing fantastically well! Though they will be living for several months yet in our warm room because of Seraphim’s surgically sheared left…
If you were expecting a post about big life changes from your truly, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Our client Diana Fiorey from Crescendo Acres Farm sent me the photo below yesterday of two of our former boys, now ultimate PR geldings, in their natty crafts fair best. I almost splooged coffee onto my monitor when…
Amongst the many gratifying results we achieved last weekend in Syracuse was the win by our Ring of Fire son, CCNF Wayfarer. Though he had always been in the mix so to speak since he first joined our show string as a juvenile in the spring of 2010 (lots of 2nds and 3rds to go…
