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…
So it may or may not take a village in the end but apparently the visiting females (all but 1 of whom have never had a cria of their own before) at the Main Barn certainly seemed to feel that this birthing thing required some serious and close supervision. The laboring female in question by…
What follows below is a reprint of the final husbandry article that appeared in the Spring 2010 issue (the final hardcopy produced) of Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles. For those of you that haven’t seen it before, here you go. For those of you that have already read it, my apologies. Again. If nothing else, I figure that…
So after 55+/- births we are down to our final 10 due females of the 2010 birthing season. We still have a few late August girls (using 11 months as general guideline) that are holding out on us but births have otherwise been generally arriving on schedule, with the last stragglers due in early November….
Admittedly it’s not always with a hop, skip, and a jump that we drag one of our carcasses up to the Arena each early morning during birthing season to see what gifts our due girls may have bestowed upon us. Having said that though, even my half awake, uncaffeinated self gets a little slack jawed…
