So we went through all of the prospective show animals over the weekend and it looks like the upcoming season is going to be a busy one. Which from my perspective is just as well. After years of conditioning ourselves to a certain level of chaos, if we are at a show and not running…
Just got back home onto the farm this morning after two weeks away. Hey: how about that February thaw that happened while we are gone, wasn’t that great?! What’s that? Oh. To say that halter training the new crop of juvenile show animals is going to be tough when the bottom two wires of our six-wire…
No, really. As of 5 minutes ago (2/25 at 7:45 EST) there were fewer than 20 stalls left to fill for the entire show. Things had started off a little bit slowly but then in the past 10 days or so there has been a real push. For those who have been hemming and hawing…
My apologies for not posting anything these past few days: I wanted to make sure I got this behemoth right. So I really hadn’t planned on things lining up this way but as it turns out this year-in-review/show results tittle-tattle has the trivial distinction of being the new CCNF Chronicles’ 100th post since its inception in…
Well it’s that time of the year again: the spring shows have all opened up their registration systems and now, after months of hemming and hawing, we have to name our team’s final rosters. Picking one’s show animals is something that I’m sure is done somewhat differently depending both upon the farm/ranch in question and…
So as some of you may know Jen and I (with a strong emphasis on Jen) have been one of three groups of people that have together helped to run the North American Alpaca Show since its inception in 2002. Our partners in crime over that time have been Kevin O’Leary and Deb Shields of…
