Not a whole lot going on on the farm today (alpacas eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing doesn’t count, sorry) other than snow removal from yesterday’s storm. So with the cleanup under control, and the farm’s vaccine order delayed by yesterday’s weather–thus postponing February herd health day until at least Monday–I finally got to add a…
So this is quickly rounding into form as the snowiest winter of my adulthood. Though I’ve yet to add up the cumulative snowfall here, I would guess that after the 18 to 20 inches we got yesterday and today that we’ve got to be at 5’+ at this point for the year and February is…
Maybe it’s because I’m still a child at heart but I find that I get as giddy as my kids do whenever school gets called off. This morning the three of us made celebratory pancakes. All snow days are made better by an early morning sugar high after all! Of course some of my happiness…
weaner wean·er (wee-ner) -noun 1. A recently weaned animal. 2. A recently weaned alpaca at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm that behaves as if its world has come to an end while also constantly and simultaneously enquiring whether you, their shepherd, have any milk. So the first crias from the 2010 birth class have left their dams behind…
Why create all new content when I can plagiarize myself?! I’m blaming my kitty, Jewel, as she is after all my muse. Yes, yes, please suspend your disbelief and pretend for just one brief moment that something posted here could actually have been inspired. Anyway I digress, the bottom line is that the whole plagiarizing idea…
So this morning I did (facilitated would be a better word) what should be the final 2010 breeding within the CCNF foundation herd, that is females which we own whom will most likely be birthing out here in 2011. In recent times we have tried to get more and more disciplined about trying to constrict…
