Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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Settling in…
As I write this on early Friday afternoon there is technically snow falling outside of my office window. Though I am an enthusiastic alpine skier, I can’t claim to be totally happy about this. I suspect my psychological state, at least this time of the year, consistently lags behind the local climactic reality by at…
2013 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza: the show seasons ends with a bang!
Well that was interesting to say the least. We honestly didn’t head to the Empire show in Syracuse, NY last Friday thinking that we could possibly improve upon the previous week’s results from the Green Mountain show, yet improve we did. How well did we do? I think that both Jennifer and I would say…
THAT is what I call a good weekend!
So as readers of this blog know by now, we spent this past weekend up at the Green Mountain show in Essex, VT. Perhaps just as important to us as having a show that we only have to drive 1.5 hours to get to though, is the fact that Essex is located right next to…
Getting ready for Green Mountain
So here we are less than 48 hours away from loading up the trailer and heading not quite 100 miles north to the Green Mountain Alpaca Fall Spectacular in Essex, VT! As an aside, I’m quite certain that that is hands-down the longest name of any alpaca show in all of North America. In any…
Support the Wicker family and get a great breeding at the same time!
We’ve known Brett Wicker and his family for several years now and we were horrified to learn a few months back that a young man in the prime of his life — and just a great all-around human being — had been diagnosed with metastasized cancer. With the leadership of Brett’s good friends at Autumn Kiss…
The end is near
No, not that end. Nor that one. I’m just talking about the end of the birthing season here! With the final 9 expectant females all in the same feed group together up at the Arena, we can actually visualize it too. Of course if we were smart, we would have bred all of our females…