What’s that famous Twain quote/quip? “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated?” Something like that. There’s been some stuff going on over the past several months, almost all of it good actually — from both a family and alpaca perspective, mind you — but, frankly, not all of it of the nature that has led…
Many, many thanks to the Penica family of Walnut Ridge Alpacas for their recent purchase of CCNF Lunar Reign (CCNF Luna Majesty x CCNF Reignmaker)! How often have we offered to sell a daughter of Luna Majesty? Prior to electing to let Lunar Reign go, we had never sold one of Luna’s daughters and in…
The arrival of November has meant that we are now officially commencing our 24th year of breeding alpacas and being in the alpaca business, arguably the last 10 years or so spent at our current size and rate of production (200-300 total animals at any given time, approximately 70 crias born each year). As one…
So what do you name a little tank of a brown cria out of a legendary maternal line, that was born looking like he had a permanent scowl on, the equivalent of a massive case of alpaca-RBF? As it turned out, the son of Delilah and Matrix Majesty was anointed CCNF Dominion, not necessarily because…
Though the first and last names bestowed upon the baby girl that was born here 2 days ago honor both her birth mother (CCNF Exuberance) and biological mother (CCNF Orange Blossom Special) respectively, it is in point of fact her middle name that defines what is most unique about this little one. Though my better…
As I write this, we are in the thick of birthing and breeding season, most likely even a little more than 50% of the way through it in fact. With the the final in-house breeding having taken place late last summer on September 15th, a birthing season that in years gone by used to often…
