Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
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…
Winding down while revving up…
Oh, we can almost smell it! “It,” in this particular case, being the end of the 2014 birthing season. In fact as I write this, there are only 6 females left at the Arena that are still due with their 2014 crias. This after starting the parade of birthing shenanigans back in May with a…
Labor day(s)
Holy baby boom Batman! Jen started the tradition several years back of taking the farm’s staff out to the local Chinese buffet for lunch any time that we have had 3 or more crias born in a given 24 hour period. The reality of late though, is that we had that happen days ago and frankly…
Go west young man!
Congratulations and a huge thank you to Daryl and Shirley Krause of Amber Autumn Alpacas and Marc and Sharon Milligan of Red Granite Ranch for their joint purchase of CCNF Legionnaire, this past weekend at the 2014 Breeders Edge sale! We know that given the genetics in Legionnaire’s pedigree, that he will do great things in…