Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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Cas-Cad-Nac Farm’s 2011 Year End Alpaca Sale
We are not beneath trying something a little different to drum up some end of the year spending. Crazy Ian’s? I’m partial to Crazy Jenny’s myself. No balloons though, I draw the line at balloons. Below is a slightly amended version of the notice I posted to the “What’s New” section of our website yesterday…
It’s black gold I tell ya!
Fall and winter prep has continued at full pace here over the past week. Not even the shearing off of the PTO shaft on our large manure spreader could slow our crew down for long. In fact as I write this, the pastures immediately around the Main Barn have been almost completely top-dressed with the…
A closer look at the Avenger girls
I finally got a chance yesterday to snap several shots of Avenger’s two daughters while up at the Arena facilitating (vs. doing which would mean something else entirely) some late season breeding. The cool thing about these two little girls is that though their dams are both Ring of Fire kids, they come from completely unrelated…
Bedding change
Way back in January of 2002 we were, to my knowledge at least, one of the first alpaca farms to start using cardboard bedding on a large scale. Though I don’t have an exact number, I would say that since the construction of the Arena in the summer of 2003 we have constantly bedded down…
So that’s why we have a warm room!
The warm room at the Arena pretty much paid for itself today. Jen went up to do morning check this morning at 6AM and found that Blossom had given birth to a happy, healthy, dark fawn female. That the baby was up and walking with mom’s placenta already expelled and cold means that it was…
Buttoned up just in time…
We’ve spent the last 5 days or so shifting the farm into it’s winter stance and I’d been meaning to (and probably still will) snap a photo or two to show you all what that entails. Of course I thought that with our pastures essentially used up for the season that we were just being…