Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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NAAS Recap Part #1: The Tale of a Little Big Man
For 11 years now the North American Alpaca Show has acted as a de facto testing lab for our breeding program. Other than a couple of years when we sent animals to NC for an even earlier roll-out, the NAAS has usually been the first show that many of our juvenile show animals ever go…
Punchy…
Well I hadn’t intended to go almost a week without posting anything here but then life and the NAAS kind of took over. After unloading the trailer last night at the Main Barn, we managed to actually walk/stumble through the door here at home around 8:15 or so. Not bad considering that as late as…
An underrated skill
Remember when you were in high school and your teachers and parents would get on you if you procrastinated on a big paper? OK, so perhaps you were so well organized as well as a goody-goody that that never actually happened to you, in which case good for you. Gold star on your forehead and…
Royal Ring of Fire
Just a quick one on this gloriously rainy — it makes the grass grow and takes the dust out of the show animals’ fleeces, it’s all good — Sunday morning to say that the stud fee on CCNF Royal Ring of Fire has been adjusted downward for the first time ever. What that means is…
Just because I’m paranoid…
…doesn’t mean I’m not being followed. The picture at left was what happened when I went out into the weaner boy feed group this afternoon with my trusty camera in hopes of actually getting some pictures. Silly me. Curiously enough, their female counterparts were conversely rather sassy with me and struck a resulting pose or…
Starting to feel the itch
That would be the show itch. I’m sure that after we get home from the Futurity in a few weeks time I’ll be over it of course but for now it just feels like opening day of the baseball season: all things are possible and we’re eager to hit the road with the animals again…