Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Invictus and Tenacious have their first crias on the ground!
Sorry not to have posted anything in over a week. The past 7 days were taken up mostly by the craziness of our kids’ last week of school and all of the attendant events that surrounded that. With Sam graduating from our beloved Upper Valley Waldorf School as an 8th grader (he moves on to…
Holding pattern
Random bits while waiting for the 2013 cria dam to truly break: 1. La Vie en Rose and Capella, who were both due in May have now had their crias (1 female, 1 male for whatever it’s worth) but that leaves 60+ more females that are due between now and December, the vast majority over the…
A tick bit you where?
So, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s probably not such a great thing when the penile sheath of one of your Herdsires looks more like the engorged teat of a holstein cow, right? Jennifer had gone down to the Stud Barn last Thursday with our vet, Susan Johnson,…
Big news from the 2013 Futurity!
We are thrilled to announce that Cas-Cad-Nac Farm has officially been awarded the Huacaya Reserve Breeder of the Year award from the 2013 Futurity Alpaca Show in the Large Farm Division! We have always felt that quality and consistency over time are the hallmarks of any serious breeding program and we take great pride in…
Welcome little one…
We had our first cria of 2013 born on Tuesday morning, though not without some drama. Oh no, wouldn’t want the first birth in almost 6 months to be routine and easy. What fun would that be after all? As luck would have it our retired Champion show girl, La Vie en Rose, whose 11…
Final weaning
It got a little bit whiney around here the other day. With shearing completed early last week, it was finally time to wean the last 12 crias (8 males, 4 females) from the 2012 birth class! Fitting, I suppose, that they should leave the confines of the Arena just prior to the arrival up there…