Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
The natural course of things
Some relatively big happenings here on the farm yesterday. For one, our female Boheme who, along with her little girl Musette (that’s her at left eyeballing me in the pasture), has been back in the general population since late last week, was bred for the first time since her daughter came to us via cesarean…
Empty nesting
Well not permanently. We just drove yesterday at the crack of dawn to leave our boys in the ever-capable hands of our friends at Camp Hilltop in upstate NY for two weeks. The house here at the farm is definitely a quieter place than it was for the the first part of the summer, though…
Herd Health Days
I think we just set a speed record for a full herd health session with all 230 animals getting their Ivomec shots, any scheduled vaccines, ADE paste (in the case of anyone < 1 year of age), as well as their bi-monthly toe nail trims over the course of a couple of days. With the…
Happy 4th of July!
Aside from the fact that there may be some fuses lit later tonight, today is really just another midsummer’s day here at CCNF. We did finally have our first cria born in over a week early yesterday morning. It always makes us a little nervous when there are no births coming at regular intervals as…
Emptying out the desk drawer…
1. Now that we’re back home for the foreseeable future, the boys (Sam and Max) and I took 4 of our Herdsires up to the Arena late this morning to commence the season’s breeding shenanigans in earnest. Max was along for the ride more out of boredom honestly — both headed to camp soon for…
Life, Love, & Florence
We finally made it home late last night from our family trip to Italy after a brief — and unplanned — 24 hour layover in Munich, Germany. Having failed to make our homebound connection to Boston on Monday afternoon, we learned that German Holiday Inns are just like the Holiday Inns here except that they…