While I don’t know what I might be doing with my life right now were we not running this farm, there is one thing I can say unequivocally that it would not be: hauling alpacas for a living. Much as it pains me to contemplate it, perhaps I am starting to show my age just…
I was tickled the other day when a friend of ours, Sue Monat of Happy Hearts Alpaca Farm, sent me a photo of a newborn female cria. The little girl in question had just been delivered by Saline, the SuperNova daughter they had bought from us a couple of years back the last time the…
Just got home late yesterday morning and hit the ground running. The females in the due group apparently were waiting to have their head-midwife nearby before letting the flood gates open as we had two crias born just while we were in route home from Boston, then another came this AM too. It’s good to…
I spent mid day yesterday driving to southern NH to make a little exchange with our buddy, Ryen Munro. It was time for Elite Legend and I-Star to head to the their coastal home in Maine for a while and for Legacy Gold to come back to CCNF in order to be in place for…
I have seen a lot of different behaviors over the years while managing the breeding of this herd but it’s a rare occurrence that I come across something genuinely new. This evening at 6PM while tending to the second half of a Matrix Majesty double session (something which may seem like a better idea now…
No no, not Las Vegas. Though now that I think of it with some of those untrimmed top knots they do look like they could be dancing on the strip, particularly during the evening pronks! Having been off tending to other school/child related business when Jen and Kim started breeding some of the visiting females…
