Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Cas-Cad-Nac Farm: 2012 Futurity Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year!
We are thrilled to announce that Celebrity Sales today named us the Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year for the 2012 Futurity! While we have truly never gone out to the Futurity chasing that particular trophy, this year the stars aligned just right for what was the deepest show string in our breeding program’s history….
All hands on deck
As of 2011 we had gone some 14 years without having to do a cesarean birth here. We were probably a little too proud of that in fact and let’s face it: we all know what that inevitably leads to. Our beloved former show female, Seraphim, developed such a bad uterine torsion at full term…
CCNF Chronicle’s 300th Post & Herdsire(s) of the Year!
I’ve known that my 300th post was coming. I was quite honestly planning on probably putting up a gratuitously cute cria photo. Who doesn’t like one of those after all? Ultimately though it seems fitting that with the 300th post since this blog’s inception in 2010, that we are in fact announcing two big wins…
Retrofitting for the long haul
When we originally built the CCNF Arena here in 2002, it was the single biggest construction project this farm had (or has) ever seen. Not only does it dwarf every other building here at 140′ x 200′ (if you count the 20′ sheds running down the sides) but unlike every other structure on this farm,…
Go forth and eat grass
The exodus from the winter/spring dry lots has begun in earnest here at CCNF. After more than a month of having to keep animals off of the pastures at the Main Barn for reasons mostly related to keeping their fleeces clean, Sunday there was a mass stampede as all of the feed groups charged out…
It’s the fleece, stupid!
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Three quarters of the Lutz family (though oddly enough not the mother) at CCNF are spending the day recovering from the 3 day shearing juggernaut that finally came to a merciful conclusion around 5:30 yesterday afternoon. We ended up doing 66 critters on the final day,…