Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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Consistent Quality
Last weekend was a coming out of sorts for the Precocious kids in our show string. When we bought half of their dad from the Forstners at Magical Farms a couple of years ago we obviously had very high hopes for what he could do for us and our breeding program. Having said that though,…
Ten and out: NAAS 2011 and the storm that wasn’t.
I headed down to Springfield, MA last Thursday with my laptop and great intentions of getting on and posting at least once or twice while we were down at the North American Show itself. You know: kind of a live and on the scene type of thing! Of course I also went down there promoting…
A weather event at the North American Alpaca Show? Why I never…
It just feels like the good old days again, very fitting for the North American’s 10th anniversary actually! For years the check-in day of the NAAS was infamously plagued by bad weather of one sort or another. There was nothing quite like doing health and color checks on 1200+ drowned rats. It always put exhibitors…
Getting our trans fat on
So by my calculations when we call it quits for the year in early November, our 2011 show season will have conservatively added up to some 21 days away from home. That’s 21 days either at shows themselves or traveling to or from them. As anyone that spends much time away from the comforts of…
Trailer packing today
Can you smell the excitement?! I suspect the primary thing Kim and Jen can smell right now is the 5 months of dust coming off of all of our show supplies as they are brought out of storage at the Main Barn. Thank goodness for Swiffers and air compressors. All the show supplies – both…
That’s it: I quit writing sales copy!*
Just a few more additions to the sales listings today before we head off to the NAAS later this week. For the record there 30 alpacas listed on our site right now, which is just a coincidence not an arbitrary round number we decided on. That’s more alpacas than we have formally listed for private…