Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Alpaca Farm Days at CCNF
Cas-Cad-Nac Farm is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the National Alpaca Farm Days this coming weekend! Please stop by the farm either tomorrow or Sunday any time between the hours of 10 AM and 4 PM. There are 250 alpacas on the farm at this writing and the pastures are filled…
Training days
So it begins…again. There is a natural ebb and flow to things when running a breeding program that relies to a great degree on the showing of our top production for marketing and promotion of our farm. Having retired a fair number of animals from the show string that went out this past April to…
Well, that’s different…
It has been an interesting few days here at the farm. Monday dawned with the news that one of our skinny mommas in the Arena’s warm room, Awesome Blossom, was stumbling around and eating sand. Never the the greatest start to any week. Though we knew that she had lost a lot of body condition…
Baby Bells
One of the trends that we’ve really started to see play out here at CCNF over the past 4 or 5 months has been the clustering of mother-daughter (Magdalena along with her adult daughters Johanna and Lilah, Reality and her daughters Nutmeg and Acomani, Sugar Snow and Sugar Drop, etc…) groupings or female sibling pairs…
Show string selection time
Here we are just a little over a month away from the first show of the fall season (“season” is perhaps a little generous, it’s only two shows for us) and we now have to make our selections for the upcoming show rosters. While there are of course the top 7 or 8 alpacas from…
Herd health, herd smealth
So we whacked out an (almost) full sized version of herd health day yesterday in under 6 hours. Under 5 hours actually if you don’t count lunch. Dare I say it was almost enjoyable? There is no doubt that, in this case especially, many hands made light work though. Having already tended late last week…