Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
More additions/updates and we’re not done yet!
Though the wind is at least blowing steadily right now, it is still 90+ degrees in the shade out there in our paddocks. It looks like we’re going to have to ride this out for at least another 48 hours or so too. I can see one group of pastured males from my window making…
New females added to the sales list
It’s a balmy 90 degree day here as I write this which means it must be downright brutal in some other parts of the country! Though I was of course able to get photos of cute crias yesterday when my camera and I went on the march uphill, my true purpose had been to get…
The graphically-intense, gratuitous cria photo post
Mailing it in? Perhaps. The title rather says it all, as will the general lack of non graphic-based content. Some times when writer’s block hits it’s best to just go with it. Thankfully, as I was out shooting some pics of new sales animals we’re getting ready to list, I was also able to get…
Solano’s turn…with a twist.
Not a whole lot going on here today in terms of action on the farm aside from a few breedings earlier in the day. We have a household of happy visitors in the forms of our old college friends and their kids as well as the younger of our two nieces seeking refuge from the…
Happy to pay the pros!
While I don’t know what I might be doing with my life right now were we not running this farm, there is one thing I can say unequivocally that it would not be: hauling alpacas for a living. Much as it pains me to contemplate it, perhaps I am starting to show my age just…
Sisters that birth out together stay together?
There are certain maternal lines within our breeding program that we really cannot get enough of. 5P Cangalli and her daughters Enchantress, Ascension, Requiem, and now littlest sister Sovereign Gemm fall into that category. Likewise for PP Jesusa, her wonder-kids Magdalena and Golden Sovereign, their sister Chalice and the various ensuing tasty offshoots (Moonlight, Johanna,…