Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A new partnership with an old friend!
We are thrilled to announce that Bari Padgett of Paragon Alpacas (and A Paca Fun Farm) now co-owns our yearling Herdsire, CCNF Rise Up (CCNF Eternal Rose x CCNF Elixir), with us! A key cog in our 2017 show team, Rise Up was/is part of the second wave of CCNF Elixir-Snowmass Matrix Majesty crosses that…
Little Man Living Large: CCNF Sentinel getting ready for big things in Germany!
We are thrilled to officially announce that our young future Herdsire, CCNF Sentinel, is headed to Sun Star Alpacas in Germany! His journey, which will wind its way through Canada, as it so often does when exporting US animals to the EU, in fact starts tomorrow when he will enter our quarantine facility here and…
Ending the 2017 Show Season on a High Note.
This past weekend brought to a close what was unquestionably one of our best years ever on the alpaca show circuit. Some of that is of course down to 20 years of experience breeding these amazing animals though undeniably, in order for 2017 to have gone as well as it did, the genetic stars also…
Goodbye to alpaca sex for another year, prepping for the fall shows, and CCNF Chronicles’ 500th post!
And just like that, the birthing and breeding season came to an end here on October 1st! Though there are still a few females here for outside breedings that the fellas of the CCNF Stud Barn will have to work on, as the person in charge of managing the breeding operations here, it does feel…
On the end of birthing/breeding season, semi-empty nests, and Hurricane Irma.
Greetings from the far side of birthing season! Seems like just yesterday that Jen and I were coming up with breeding assignments — which Herdsires would breed with which females — for the 2017 season and that she and our herd manager, Kim Duprey, were staring down a list of some 75+ due females for…
CCNF At The 2017 AOA National Fleece Show
Though for the past couple of years we have “attended” the AOA mid-summer soirees known formally as the National Fleece Conferences in person, in truth what we really did on both occasions was drop off our show fleeces and then use the location of the conferences as an excuse to hoof around with our kids,…