We said goodbye on Sunday to arguably the single most prolific Herdsire in our breeding program’s 26-year history. That Elixir took his final breaths while in the arms of his primary life-long handler, was both a great privilege and incredibly hard for me in equal measure. That was more or less verbatim what I also…
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…
We are gutted to announce the passing of Snowmass Matrix Majesty, just shy of his 14th birthday. I’ve quite honestly been trying to write his obituary for almost 2 weeks now and it is the sort of thing that hangs over one’s head. As a livestock farm with over 250 animals, we constantly witness the…
With heavy hearts and deep gratitude, we said goodbye today to SHRA Virtual’s Reality. Though unable to carry a pregnancy to term for the past couple of years, Reality had stayed with us nonetheless, a true powerhouse matriarch who had more than earned her right to merely abide atop the hill here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm….
There were some heavy hearts around here late yesterday afternoon. Though we had known it was coming for quite some time, yesterday was a tough one as we finally made the decision to put down both Legacy Gold and 5P Cangalli. LG, who had lost most of his teeth (front and back) over the past…
We lost our herd elder on Friday night. PPeruvian Senora (the 2 “Ps” signifying that she was part of the second Peruvian importation into the US in 1993) had joined us already a well-aged lady — in alpaca years — back in 02/03 as part of the deal that made us the then co owners…
