In case we hadn’t learned it beforehand, the past year taught us the hard way that we should never take anything for granted. While the tragedy of losing Jen’s dad, Rod Croft, prematurely last December has been balanced out somewhat by watching our now adult sons truly start to spread their wings in both life…
Welcome to the CCNF spring show season redux. Though we technically just competed in three different shows over April Fool’s weekend (a joke that writes itself on multiple levels), it honestly felt like a lot less work. It was certainly less stressful than what we are usually accustomed to this time of year. Look, a…
We are thrilled to announce that Cas-Cad-Nac Farm LLC was just named the 2022 Futurity Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year! In addition to that accolade for our breeding program overall, CCNF Bataclan (CCNF Daliance x CCNF Elixir) won the 2022 Futurity Light Herdsire of the Year and Irish Meadow’s Elite Max (Ivy’s Honeysuckle x…
That was fun. Well, parts of it anyways. Look, we make no bones about the fact that we were intent on returning to the Futurity Show in Kansas City, MO, for the first time since 2019 (aka, the before Covid times), specifically to pursue the Large Breeder of the Year honors, as we have done…
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…
Hello again, out there in alpacadom! When last we spoke, it was mid-July, and somehow my brilliant wife had just survived the tightrope walk of skirting her 50+ fleeces for the National Fleece Show while simultaneously running the gauntlet of the heart of our birthing season as the head midwife here at CCNF. It was…
