While we were off last weekend walking in circles at the Green Mountain Show, our four year old Herdsire, CCNF Avenger, very quietly wrote his name in the annals of our breeding program. Avenger is a son of Archangel and CPeruvian Stacey, a rather grumpy but nonetheless highly valued member of our foundation herd that’s…
Sorry not to have posted as much lately. The truth is I didn’t expect that any of you would find stories of commutes to and from school/soccer practice/games mixed in with exciting tales of rain falling on an alpaca farm all that exciting. New England as a whole (yours truly included) has also spent the…
Not a whole lot going on here today in terms of action on the farm aside from a few breedings earlier in the day. We have a household of happy visitors in the forms of our old college friends and their kids as well as the younger of our two nieces seeking refuge from the…
There are certain maternal lines within our breeding program that we really cannot get enough of. 5P Cangalli and her daughters Enchantress, Ascension, Requiem, and now littlest sister Sovereign Gemm fall into that category. Likewise for PP Jesusa, her wonder-kids Magdalena and Golden Sovereign, their sister Chalice and the various ensuing tasty offshoots (Moonlight, Johanna,…
I’ve been meaning to get a picture of this little guy since he was born a couple of weeks ago but have always found myself at the Arena sans camera whenever I thought of it. The still unnamed boy will be at least bay black if not true black before we’re done. This was of course…
It was some five and a half years ago as I sat in my basement office searching the internet for new light colored females to add to our foundation herd that we came across Tessora. Her discovery came after several frustrating days of calling up breeders that had females listed, often times for exorbitant prices…
