Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
They’re off!
Not sure what the rest of you good people out there were doing this morning at 5AM? We thought we’d get the day started with a bang by loading 52 alpacas into trailers. Fortunately we were able to take turns backing each rig up to the central alley of the Main Barn and more or…
It’s raining it’s pouring…
…the alpacas locked outside aren’t snoring (I know it’s too many syllables, so sue me). They are however getting the layer of dust and static electricity taken out of their show fleeces! What does it say that in these circumstances the female show critters are all outside eating hay and just chilling in their paddocks…
Incubation
Bio-security and proper quarantine procedures are something which we take seriously here, though not on an OCD level. You will not find anyone “sanitizing” the dung pile areas here on a daily basis. I mean, really? I suppose if it makes you feel better then by all means have at it but it’s 5 to…
A day in the life: the calm before…
We were over having dinner at my Godparents’ house last night in the town of Hartland, VT and it was amazing to still see between 1 and 2 feet of snow on the ground. With the exception of the small glacier that still plagues the shaded back of our house — and therefore our grill…
Another puzzle piece arrives at CCNF
Part of the deal last year that brought Snowmass Elite Legend into the fold both here and at Tripping Gnome Farm (EL is co owned by CCNF/TGF and Quechua Enterprises) also involved a straight-up partnership between ourselves and Snowmass Alpacas on their Champion fawn Herdsire, Snowmass Matrix Majesty. Elite Legend was pretty much the perfect…
Then there was this guy!
We were very excited when our lone high-end grey production girl, Maid Marian, gave birth to a grey Ring of Fire son last summer! Whether I had Gandalf on the mind or just a little word play going on, I think he was named Smoke Ring not long after he was dry. I remember going…