Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everybody! To those of you of other persuasions, enjoy the proverbial Chinese food and the empty movie theaters, I hear that’s pretty great too! We’re gathered here with the extended Lutz family from Cambridge, MA (my mom and dad) and NYC (sister, brother, and two nieces) taking in the whole occasion. The kids…
Weanerific
Amidst the happy chaos of the extended Lutz family arriving yesterday to spend Christmas with us here on the farm, we also weaned the eldest members of the 2011 birth class, bringing them down to live in the Main Barn for the next 5 months or so. While psychologically traumatic on the crias themselves in…
Tale of the 2011 breeding tape
What is an alpaca breeding pimp facilitator to do now that the off season has truly arrived? Read, drink beer, and whine about the weather? We will of course be doing all of that and more in the days and months to come but I also had an inkling this morning. Sorry. To paraphrase Crash Davis…
This and that…
1. Why was it 41 degrees outside this morning? Leaving aside the fact that it would be nice to go skiing sometime soon, this is getting to be a tad bit bizarre. It says here that amongst the ranks of global climate change deniers you will not find too many farmers or people whose lives…
Then there was this guy!
Bellagio is admittedly one young boy that slipped through the sales list cracks. He was a relatively late birth in 2010 and as such was really off of our radar screen a bit, not having been ready for show duty yet last spring. As the picture shows, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t worth the wait…
A funny thing happened on the way to the sugar float (AKA fun with parasite management)
Oh the joy that is parasite management on an alpaca farm! Jen and Kim have spent the past several weeks meticulously going through the entire herd, one feed group at a time, doing fecal tests on every alpaca on the farm. Unfortunately there is no cool and easy way to get those individual samples other…