Unloading the mental desk drawer of the CCNF blogger while wondering which alpaca female it is that I forgot to get bred this morning…’cause it’s that time of year. We got home on Monday evening from a fantastic 2 week family adventure to Norway. A June/July trip with our boys has become a regular and…
The headline really kind of covers it, don’t you think? The details though: as of July 1st, 2016, CCNF Elixir, our beige Futurity Champion and Judges’ Choice winner — whom we co own with our friends the Padgett family at A Paca Fun Farm — will be closed to all future outside stud services. This…
The Herdsires here at CCNF have been working at full bore for about a month now. Though we normally don’t get things going in that regard here until around the 1st of July most years, with the family’s decision to take a quick early summer vacation to the UK at the end of June, yours truly…
With apologies to Ms. Swift, we call this meeting to adjournment. We’re done, we’re out. If you are a female alpaca on this farm that did not get bred yet as of late last week, well then no offense to you, but I officially don’t care until after shearing day in May at the earliest,…
I love it when crias come out just the way that we had ordered them. Amongst other things, it helps to further promote the mythology that we know exactly what it is we are doing here! In this particular case, the baby in question was to be the 2nd born cria of our lovely rose grey…
Random bits while waiting for the 2013 cria dam to truly break: 1. La Vie en Rose and Capella, who were both due in May have now had their crias (1 female, 1 male for whatever it’s worth) but that leaves 60+ more females that are due between now and December, the vast majority over the…
