Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
An unlikely Christmas card?
I suppose we had this one coming. After managing 2 out of the last 3 years to somehow crash the same hay wagon belonging to the family here in Vermont from whom we buy the beautiful small bales we use at the two lower barns, Ken and Janice Young — tongue planted firmly in cheek…
Doing some mop up
Bits and pieces from the brain of the CCNF blogger: The partially failed Turkey brining experiment nothwithstanding, I think it means that the just completed extended Thanksgiving weekend was a smashing success when the only thing I can complain about today is that my quads are still sore from hiking up to the top of…
Weaning gets under way.
The first batch of 2012 crias that were born back in May have now all been weaned and moved down from the Arena. As such, the Main Barn is temporally a bit of a whiney place again as the newly arrived weaners adapt to life without their dams. In our experience some are pretty much…
Letting go…
There were some heavy hearts around here late yesterday afternoon. Though we had known it was coming for quite some time, yesterday was a tough one as we finally made the decision to put down both Legacy Gold and 5P Cangalli. LG, who had lost most of his teeth (front and back) over the past…
Birthed out!
Last week at this time there were still 5 of our females left to deliver their babies this year. While that would be all well and good in the early fall when nighttime temperatures don’t tend to drop much lower than the 40s, when there are crias due and there’s a hard frost on the…
Unscathed
Well, minus a couple of very small old dead trees coming down here on our road (small enough that no chainsaw was required), we made it through Sandy without a hitch. We didn’t even lose power. Our thoughts are with those folks elsewhere in the country who are still in the midst of what looks…