Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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CCNF Dreadnought: Rookie Got Game!
We are pleased to announce that our rookie Herdsire and newly-minted AOA National Fleece Show Fawn Champion Male, CCNF Dreadnought, has achieved his first confirmed pregnancies here at CCNF! This is very good thing creating real clarity going forward, particularly for yours truly who manages the breeding around these parts. Though Dreadnought had both his…
Thank You to Foster’s Trail & Alpaca Farm and Nuevo Mundo Alpaca!
Many thanks to Susan & Peter Goodwin of Foster’s Trail & Alpaca Farm for their purchase of CCNF Adanna and to Elizabeth Ferguson and Jose Palma of Nuevo Mundo Alpaca for their purchase of CCNF Charmaine, both at the 2017 Parade of Champions Auction last weekend! Each of those females represents a really good shot…
CCNF Adanna, CCNF Charmaine, and the Parade of Champions Auction: Closing Arguments
Hey, did you here that there’s an alpaca auction in 5 days? Truthfully, given the way we and our fellow consignors have been carpet bombing the various electronic mediums of alpacadom, if you still aren’t aware of the upcoming Parade of Champions sale, to be held this coming Friday/Saturday at Little Creek Farm in North…
CCNF Elixir Wins 2017 Futurity Herdsire of the Year Awards!
We are proud to announce that CCNF Elixir, our elite Herdsire whom we co own with our good friends at A Paca Fun Farm, was just awarded both the 2017 Futurity Herdsire of the Year in the Large Breeder Division as well as the overall 2017 Futurity Herdsire of the Year for light offspring! Turns…
CCNF Wins 2017 Futurity Large Breeder of the Year!
There’s not a whole lot to add to that headline, right? Perhaps the only point I would make for the upteenth time since starting this blog and the newsletter of the same name which preceded it years ago, would be that like any plaudit from the alpaca show world, it is best to step back…
Cas-Cad-Nac Farm at the 2017 Futurity (or why we still love Kansas City)
The Futurity Show & Sale, as it is formally known, is at once both the most humbling alpaca show in the entire country yet conversely because of that, when you do win there, it also really means something. Few banners/trophies in the US alpaca business carry the same marketing and branding cachet as a championship…