With our return home this past Sunday evening from the Vermont show, we concluded four straight weekends of alpaca events. Though fun throughout, the last three weekends have involved Jen and I being away from home three days of each week and sleeping in hotel beds of variable quality. At least Sam and Max were…
We are thrilled to announce that Celebrity Sales today named us the Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year for the 2012 Futurity! While we have truly never gone out to the Futurity chasing that particular trophy, this year the stars aligned just right for what was the deepest show string in our breeding program’s history….
I’ve known that my 300th post was coming. I was quite honestly planning on probably putting up a gratuitously cute cria photo. Who doesn’t like one of those after all? Ultimately though it seems fitting that with the 300th post since this blog’s inception in 2010, that we are in fact announcing two big wins…
We went to Nebraska last week hopeful that we would compete if nothing else. While we have certainly had our share of success stories at the Futurity over the years, there have also been many times when we have gone with animals we genuinely believed in only to have our you-know-whats handed to us. If…
As I pointed out a couple of days ago, going to alpaca shows with high expectations can be an exercise in futility and disappointment some times. What you think you have in your show pens and what the judges think you have are not always the same thing. Let us also not forget that particularly…
For 11 years now the North American Alpaca Show has acted as a de facto testing lab for our breeding program. Other than a couple of years when we sent animals to NC for an even earlier roll-out, the NAAS has usually been the first show that many of our juvenile show animals ever go…
