I’m sitting here today as the parent of a newly minted high school freshman. So far, so good. I think it’s safe to say that Sammy’s parents were at least as nervous about him making the big jump up yesterday as he was. At the moment though I’m just enjoying the fact that for the…
Some time over the past couple of weeks we officially passed the halfway mark of our 2013 birthing season. That is to say that there are now more crias on the ground romping around the pastures than there are due females in our maternity pens. I can’t honestly tell you when it was, or the…
We are proud to present the second of our two females that we are consigning to the 2013 Breeders Edge auction: CCNF Ladyhawke! Just like our other female at the upcoming sale, CCNF Andean Majesty, Ladyhawke has some serious genetic heavyweights in her pedigree. Paternally she is the the daughter of our full Accoyo Herdsire,…
We’re putting animals into an alpaca auction in Virginia…in the month of August. Hmm, why the sense of deja vu? 😉 As those of you that have followed our ups and downs over the years may recall, we were fortunate for several years (2008 to 2010) to be part of a very special event, the National…
We arrived home at midday today to find that all was more or less calm on the farm. This after being away at the Priority sale in Las Vegas since Wednesday of last week. I’m now sitting here contemplating the weekend that just was while the snow quietly falls outside (they’re saying we could get…
Though we always miss the mountains of Vermont when we’re on the road, I can’t say that we’re missing the cold back home one iota! We heard that the temperatures topped off at -13 yesterday at CCNF, so even though it was only in the 50s when we landed here, it felt downright balmy by…
