Those of us who were raised in New England as fans of the Boston Red Sox pre-2004 will always carry a healthy pinch of superstition in our DNA. Back when yours truly was still a hormonal, wise-ass 15-year-old, my Dad had suggested that our family get a couple of season tickets at Fenway Park in…
Anyone in the alpaca industry here who tells you they are not concerned with the rapid shoaling (to borrow a maritime term) of the genetic depth in the US domestic herd is, quite frankly (and to put it nicely), not paying attention. While the state of play, especially in white and light animals, has forced…
We are happy to announce that we recently acquired half interest in the young Herdsire prospect, Colonial Dimitri, from the good folks in the Rodman family and Colonial Alpacas in Williamstown, MA. Let us be clear: Dimitri is, as they say in the world of sports, “one for the future,” rather than a young male…
Unbeknownst to people watching, last month on a Futurity show team that didn’t lack for much from fawn and lighter, there was nonetheless a gaping hole in our yearling fawn males. It was unmistakably in the shape of CCNF Love Rules, the 3rd of 4 full brothers born from the combination of our Champion Elixir…
The global Covid pandemic that first roared to life in the winter of 2020, canceling that year’s Futurity in Kansas City, kept us from running out a show team that, at that time, we considered far and away the deepest our breeding program had ever produced. It would have been a combination of 2018-born animals…
Though father time will, of course, wait for none of us, we are nonetheless sad to announce the passing of CCNF Archangel. Arch passed naturally, within 30 feet of the very pen where he was born over 18 years ago. It has been weird to go up to the Main Barn these past couple of…
