Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Tinkerbell gets a new mommy
While we had hoped to try grafting our orphaned premie, Tinkerbell, onto the next experienced female that gave birth here anyway, sometimes a situation presents itself that is just too good to be true. Not that there wasn’t a dark side to this latest occurrence: Fawn Angel, who has been a part of our herd…
Oh, baby!
I’ve always had to remind myself to enjoy the calm whenever it is present this time of year. So often we are just dodging the proverbial trees throughout our summer birthing season, and this past week was a perfect example. Just 8 days ago we had a little dismature female born to our female, Alexandra….
CCNF results from the AOBA National Fleece Show
I have to say that not personally being in Denver, Colorado this past May for the AOBA National Conference and Show was rather disappointing! It wasn’t because I loved the idea of driving 20+ hours with a trailer full of alpacas to the Rocky Mountain West, something which in fact was never in the cards….
Wayfarer’s first…with a grey twist!
I love it when crias come out just the way that we had ordered them. Amongst other things, it helps to further promote the mythology that we know exactly what it is we are doing here! In this particular case, the baby in question was to be the 2nd born cria of our lovely rose grey…
The preferred exit strategy
We had been on pins and needles lately with one of our girls, Boheme, who was well past her initial due date. Though we’ve had completely normal births past 365 days even, we’d be fibbing if we didn’t admit that anywhere past that 355 to 360 day mark starts to make us all feel a…
CCNF Results from the PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase Fleece Show
Here is another batch of results from the 2nd of the spring fleece shows we were in back in May. PAOBA marked the final show for all of these fleeces, all of which were from the 2012 clip. No surprise, the big names continued to do quite well in spite of the wear and tear…