We are not beneath trying something a little different to drum up some end of the year spending. Crazy Ian’s? I’m partial to Crazy Jenny’s myself. No balloons though, I draw the line at balloons. Below is a slightly amended version of the notice I posted to the “What’s New” section of our website yesterday…
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…
Yours truly has spent the last few days playing glorified chauffeur to my kids while Jen is off at the ARI genetic conference in Houston. Thursday I think I spent 3.5 hours in the car: they are lucky they’re cute! I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up on our website yesterday and today during…
For years we have felt that non-breeding alpaca males are the natural by-product of a serious breeding program. While everyone must of course use their own standard when evaluating young boys (and sometimes older boys too), we generally feel that if we are really asking ourselves whether a given male is a legitimate Herdsire prospect…
We are happy to announce that CCNF will be participating in this year’s National Alpaca Farm Days! We have been absent from that scene for a couple of years now dealing with other scheduled events so we are really looking forward to participating again. Though our experiences with open farm days (whether organized by AOBA…
Though the wind is at least blowing steadily right now, it is still 90+ degrees in the shade out there in our paddocks. It looks like we’re going to have to ride this out for at least another 48 hours or so too. I can see one group of pastured males from my window making…
