…is that it’s raining. Meaning that all of the good folks that are waiting on fleece samples from us at the moment are temporarily out of luck. The finer fleeced animals up at the Arena just look like complete hell. “Frumpy” really doesn’t do it justice. You can certainly tell it’s time to shear. On…
All are back home safe and sound from our various adventures due south and west. I can tell from the fact that it took me several minutes just to compose that first sentence that my energy level is not exactly back up to full power yet. We are officially in drool mode. Jen, Ryen, Isabella,…
…the alpacas locked outside aren’t snoring (I know it’s too many syllables, so sue me). They are however getting the layer of dust and static electricity taken out of their show fleeces! What does it say that in these circumstances the female show critters are all outside eating hay and just chilling in their paddocks…
Bio-security and proper quarantine procedures are something which we take seriously here, though not on an OCD level. You will not find anyone “sanitizing” the dung pile areas here on a daily basis. I mean, really? I suppose if it makes you feel better then by all means have at it but it’s 5 to…
Last weekend was a coming out of sorts for the Precocious kids in our show string. When we bought half of their dad from the Forstners at Magical Farms a couple of years ago we obviously had very high hopes for what he could do for us and our breeding program. Having said that though,…
I headed down to Springfield, MA last Thursday with my laptop and great intentions of getting on and posting at least once or twice while we were down at the North American Show itself. You know: kind of a live and on the scene type of thing! Of course I also went down there promoting…
