Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Like the Emerald Isle without the Guinness and Jameson
The farm today feels and looks a bit like my imagined vision of Ireland: very wet and very green. Unfortunately it’s missing the fun-loving carousing and singing from the local pub. Perhaps there’s something that can be done to address that? The yearling boys that were kicked out of the Main Barn late last week…
The farm shift is on
The Arena and Main Barn are slowly but surely starting to empty out as we begin the process of sending roughly half of the herd out to pastures away from the buildings themselves. From my office window in fact I can see our rather small group of yearling males happily munching on almost 10″ of…
Two big wins and a look ahead to the future
So that whole trophyless-at-the-Futurity thing I talked about a few weeks ago? As of this morning it’s not really true any more. We are thrilled to announce that our co owned Herdsires, Snowmass Elite Legend (owned with Snowmass Alpacas and Tripping Gnome Farm) and Snowmass Matrix Majesty (owned with Snowmass Alpacas) were just awarded theĀ 2011…
Breed to a Legend offer now officially open to the alpaca public!
Though the customers of CCNF and Tripping Gnome Farm were quick to snap up many of the Snowmass Legacy Gold and Snowmass Incaaccoyo Star breeding we have been offering at a special discounted rate in 2011, there is still limited availability! When we originally made this offer public in February we said that our existing…
Let loose the (formerly fuzzy, now mostly naked) hounds!
Days like today on the farm quite literally make you happy to be alive! Perhaps it’s partly still the affect of post-shearing euphoria — as in “naya, naya, naya: we don’t have to do that again for 12 months” — but with the birds making their spring symphony, a wonderful breeze, 60 degrees, and nary…
Shear-o-Rama
It is done! After shearing 76 alpacas yesterday we got that yearly chore whipped out in 3 days total, which means that tomorrow (when we had a tentatively scheduled day #4) we don’t have to get our game faces on again. I have nothing but admiration for those folks that shear for a living. Yes,…