Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Making our way (slowly) up and over, AKA: Adventures in Exportation
This past week was a bit of a crazy one here for the Lutz clan at CCNF. Two separate trips into Canada (the second of which involved hauling alpacas), one snow day for our kids, and one stubborn-ass three day Nor’Easter storm later, we are now all good though! This whole adventure had its genesis back in 2013…
Happy Thanksgiving from Cas-Cad-Nac Farm!
We are happily gathered (perhaps huddled, given yesterdays storm?) here on the farm with the extended Lutz clan from both Boston and NYC. Many shenanigans, all of them good! Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends wherever you may be! Follow me on Twitter @CCNFalpacas
CCNF fall show results: finishing what we started.
Yeah, yeah…I know that the fall shows already ended for us more than two and a half weeks ago. What can I tell you? Things have been a little busy of late around these parts. This off-season business seems to have been a trumped-up bunch of hooey so far! 😉 In any case, as those…
Positioning for the cold months ahead
With the end of our fall show season and the last cria birth of 2014 — finally, after I seemingly jinxed it almost a month beforehand — we have recently put the farm back into its fall/winter footing. The most obvious sign of this was the taking down of all of our internal fencing we…
A brief appreciation of Magical Farms
We were out at Magical Farms’ final Breeders Choice sale about 10 days ago, an annual event which we have always made a point to attend whenever possible. There is no denying that it all felt a little bittersweet this time around though, knowing that we were saying a final goodbye to a farm that…
Surrogate dams to the rescue (again).
Let’s face it, with a herd our size bad stuff just happens sometimes. This is particularly true where the question of our production females are concerned. With 70 to 80 expectant females each calendar year, the odds of us going through a full birthing season drama-free are pretty much nonexistent. Even with 17 years of experience…