So there we were back in August eagerly awaiting the due date of arguably the most valuable colored female on our farm, Reality (SHRA Virtual’s Reality if you seek her out on ARI). How important was/is she to us and our big picture? We already have two of her daughters holding court in our foundation…
The off season more or less officially arrived on Tuesday. All good, all done, that’s all she wrote! Juliet (one of our lesser known but no less valued) Legacy Gold daughters gave birth to a spunky, beige SuperNova boy. For those keeping score at home that was cria #55 born here this year. Personally I…
In the continuing quest to bring sanity to the 2011 birthing season Mssrs Precocious and Elite Legend will be very busy boys over the next week or so. By my calculations there are 8 females left to be bred of our own (5 or 6 of which are ready now being already 21+ days post-partum)….
In the first part of this series we tackled nutritional and reproductive management of older females. Here, as promised, I’m going to talk a little more about some other things that we’ve observed in the older female members of our herd, specifically as it relates to one particular dermatological issue, some conformational problems coming home…
The Lutz family’s arrival back home at CCNF from the 2010 National Elite was staggered, just like our departure. Though by Monday night all were present and accounted for, at least physically anyway. Though we did sell some of our alpacas at the auction on Saturday and in the process made several new happy clients…
One of our two cats, Jewel, just came into my office and announced (in so many words) that all blogging after a very long weekend would be improved with a kitty curled up on the lap. Definitely good for the soul in any case. More to come…
