Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Graze naked
The herd at CCNF has actually been shorn for almost 2 weeks now, though it’s telling of how full life has been that this is the first mention I’ve made of it here. After doing 2 days of shearing at the start of the month, our shearer, Matt Best, came back here on Monday the 12th…
CCNF Centurion takes his place at the table
Just finished putting the finale edits and touches on Centurion’s listing as he, rightly, makes a reappearance on the web alongside his brother Elixir, his sire Matrix Majesty, and his grandsire Archangel as a CCNF Herdsire. While Centurion is still 3 months shy of his 2nd birthday, we do anticipate getting him working sooner rather…
Interlude
So after 2 days of shearing, we have 145 of the 211 total animals we are doing this year done! All of our adult Herdsires, yearling and juvenile males and females, as well as any of our pregnant females that are due in June, all have groovy new haircuts as of this morning. Someone said…
2014 Futurity: CCNF Championships & 1st Place Finishes
The title “Futurity Champion” brings with it perhaps more cachet than any other term in the US alpaca industry. Though the Futurity is often not the largest alpaca show in the country, it has always been the toughest. It is unquestionably the Major Leagues to every other large show’s AAA ball. If you are in the the ribbons…
2014 North American Alpaca Show: CCNF Championships & 1st Place Finishes
For the first 10 years of the NAAS’s existence we helped (ok, truth in advertising: mostly Jennifer helped, while I schlepped our kids around more than usual throughout the month of March) to actually organize and run the show itself….
To Norway, with love.
Amidst all of the craziness of the past month, one of the coolest things we got to do, was to host the Sjøli family of Alpacajoy of Norway here at the farm during the first week of April! Laila we had met for the first time briefly last year when she and her colleague, Rolf…