Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Maestro: another potential puzzle piece comes online…
We are happy to announce that as of earlier this week, our young Herdsire, Spirit Wind’s Maestro, now has his first confirmed pregnancy here at CCNF! We originally purchased Maestro from Jerry and Karin Young of Spirit Wind Farm & Fiber Studio, after being really impressed with him at his first ever show, the 2013…
CCNF Abby Rose, Lot #9 at the Breeders Edge Sale
It seems to be every couple of years now that we have to dust off the old, “Cas-Cad-Nac Farm doesn’t really breed greys alpacas, do we?” line as we then go on to either privately list or consign to an auction, what is actually a pretty spiffy animal! This year’s entry in this little sub-plot…
CCNF Defiance = Love Machine
The decision, now over 2 years ago, to give up our partial interest in Snowmass Elite Legend, was not one we took lightly. To this day, EL remains one of the most prepotent Herdsires we’ve ever come across. Just as an individual, he was always a joy to work with too, a real gentle soul…
Rocky Mountain Fever, Part #2
Amid the chaos that was Cas-Cad-Nac Farm in the month of June, Jennifer spent several weeks trying to carve out the time to properly skirt our 45 entries for the National Fleece Show in Denver. Something that would have normally gotten done weeks in advance — we sheared at the end of April/beginning of May…
Rocky Mountain Fever, Part #1
It was June of 1996, not quite a year past our wedding day (more on that later), and Jen and I were in Denver, Colorado attending our first ever AOBA national conference and show. Though we didn’t yet own our first alpacas, we had purchased the house and parcel of land back home in VT…
Into Summer…
Wow, the last few weeks feel like they took place at double speed and one result of that, is that this space has been conspicuously neglected. We went from putting the final touches on our new farm cookbook (read: immersed in proofreading and the annoying minutiae until we really didn’t feel like looking at it…