Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Freaky warm
Having seen the kids off to school, I just walked into my office and opened up all of my windows. It smells great out there: the pastures are turning more green every day, and I can hear the birds singing. Taken as a snapshot there’s not a whole lot not to love about it and…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
My thirteen year old (that’d be him on the left some years back) just stepped into my office long enough for a chuckle and to let me know that he thought I was a nit-wit. Point taken. Nonetheless, the fact is I’d much rather be photoshopping bad hat images onto my kids heads rather than updating…
Archangel at your service.
Some big news heading into the 2012 breeding season: for the first time in over 4 years CCNF Archangel will again be open for outside stud services! After talking it over with our friends and co-owners at Tripping Gnome Farm Alpacas, breedings to the Arch will be offered at $4,000 with a $500 discount available…
Training in tandem
For whatever reason yesterday felt as though it could have been the first day of spring as opposed to another overly-mild day of a long winter run amuck. The sun was out, it was in the mid 50s, and the roads were even finally starting to dry up, at least here on the farm itself….
Bringing our Herdsire listings up to date in more ways than one
It has been a while since I’ve really gone through and cleaned up the Herdsire section of our farm’s website. While we have of course written up the occasional and important new arrival over the past few years (CCNF Royal Magnus, TKO’s King of the Ladies, Snowmass Elite Legend, Snowmass Matrix Majesty), it has quite…
Crias beware
It’s been a tough few months for a couple of the male crias up at the Arena. First in the days before Christmas Juliet’s little guy, Undici (he was born on 11/11/11), somehow managed to get stepped on or kicked. Though we initially took it to be a soft tissue injury in his ankle joint,…