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CCNF Females at the 2020 Amber Autumn Auction!
After years of calendar conflicts with our then school-aged sons’ February breaks, we are thrilled to be consigning animals for the first time ever at the upcoming Amber Autumn Auction, to be held next month, February 21 & 22, in warm and sunny Phoenix, AZ! We of course wanted to make a bit of a…
CCNF at the 2019 Showtacular
What is there to say about Syracuse, NY in November? It has a reputation for being a bit raw by now and this year certainly lived up (down?) to that. Waking up to snow and low double digits on Friday morning at our hotel, I was definitely grateful that my better half had the forethought…
Welcome to the world CCNF Exuberant Frost Blossom-ET, we’ve been waiting to meet you…
Though the first and last names bestowed upon the baby girl that was born here 2 days ago honor both her birth mother (CCNF Exuberance) and biological mother (CCNF Orange Blossom Special) respectively, it is in point of fact her middle name that defines what is most unique about this little one. Though my better…
Thanks to our Royal Progeny buyers!
Many thanks to the Gilmore family of Central Hill Farm Alpacas and Tim and Debbie McCarty of Heather’s Acre Alpaca Farm for purchasing our two lots this past Saturday at the Royal Progeny Alpaca Auction! Both CCNF Opaline (pictured above) and CCNF Ariel are going to established breeding programs where their genetics will get to…
CCNF Females at the 2019 Royal Progeny Auction!
We are excited to be consigning two beautiful yearling females to the upcoming Royal Progeny Alpaca Auction, being held this year at the host farm itself, Alpaca Palace in Butler, PA! Held the weekend of of October 18th and 19th, the sale is bringing together some of the top alpaca breeding programs from across the…
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth Is: CCNF Slouches Towards Carbon Neutrality
So look, let’s begin with this from the Department of Keeping It Real: I’m not sure that when it comes to the final math, that one can repeatedly haul alpacas long distances with diesel trucks and perhaps more importantly, travel as much as we do both domestically and overseas, and still claim some kind of…