Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Dodging the trees as they come at us
What a crazy week it’s been here. Not bad, mind you but just mind numbing in the fullness of the calendar. Some of my personal numbness may also be coming from watching my Red Sox self-destruct in slow motion. Just brutal. Jen got home from the ARI conference in Houston, TX late on Sunday night,…
House cleaning between commutes!
Yours truly has spent the last few days playing glorified chauffeur to my kids while Jen is off at the ARI genetic conference in Houston. Thursday I think I spent 3.5 hours in the car: they are lucky they’re cute! I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up on our website yesterday and today during…
Close only counts in bocce, horse shoes, and hand grenades: fiber boys at CCNF
For years we have felt that non-breeding alpaca males are the natural by-product of a serious breeding program. While everyone must of course use their own standard when evaluating young boys (and sometimes older boys too), we generally feel that if we are really asking ourselves whether a given male is a legitimate Herdsire prospect…
All they need is love…
The photo at left is of two siblings sharing a midday nap in the sun, though in this case the siblings in question are not twins. Every good picture deserves a good story of sorts… We owe much to our beloved female Opal. It’s not enough that after winning multiple Championships herself, including two at…
A nice trifecta
As you may have gathered from posts over the last month or so, the birth ratio of males to females around here this spring and summer has been rather slanted towards the testosterone. It happens. In fact the whole reason the Arena here is the size it is (140′ x 200′ when you include the…
CCNF Open Farm: It’s officially ON.
So after batting it around for a week or so and seeing how things looked around the area, we have made the call that we will go ahead with our participation in National Alpaca Farm Days, 9/24 and 9/25. Below you will find the blurb I also just posted to the “what’s new” section of…