Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Don’t mess with the LG
I spent mid day yesterday driving to southern NH to make a little exchange with our buddy, Ryen Munro. It was time for Elite Legend and I-Star to head to the their coastal home in Maine for a while and for Legacy Gold to come back to CCNF in order to be in place for…
A grudge we can live with
So after a week of some pretty intense birth/death/birth/death/birth pendulum swings we were thrilled when one of our foundation females just had a good old run of the mill delivery. No drama, no intrigue. Just a normal, healthy, and pretty interesting looking King of Ladies boy. Hurrah for boring. Not that we were allowed to get…
Never a dull moment
The funny thing was that we were supposed to have a quick and easy herd health day last Sunday in a month when all we had to do was shots and body scoring. In the normal course of things that should have taken us maybe 5 cumulative hours to go through the 220 +/- animals…
Fire Starter’s X-ray
It took us a little bit but I finally figured out how to export Fire Starter’s digital X-ray as a jpg from the software it came with from our vet’s office. You are looking at a side view of the base of her neck and torso. Note the severe displacement of the vertebrae in the…
Update
We elected to put Fire Starter down this afternoon after X-rays today showed that her prognosis was not very good at all. She had two severely displaced — though remarkably not fractured — vertebrae at the base of her neck pinching her spinal column in at least two places. Though surgery was a long shot…
Adventures in the alpaca ICU
A quick note of thanks to all of the people that have contacted us in one form or another offering not just their condolences on Tessora’s passing but also their own personal stories. It has meant a lot to all of us here. There is still plenty of boot-lipping going around but the raw shock…