Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Building Discontent
So we will see if our cleanup crew is still speaking to us in a few days. After multiple local stories of buildings and barns collapsing under the weight of the recent snowfall, we decided yesterday that the buildup on the Arena’s southern shed roof needed to come off. Unfortunately the only method that would…
Fear and loathing on date night
Jen and I have been pretty lucky over the years with some of the people that have worked for us. Though it seems like it was yesterday, it was in fact five and a half years ago that two special young women entered our lives for the first time, both within months of each other….
Kimberly McAllister is my herd health hero(ine)
So while we were running around last Friday afternoon trying to get all the stuff we together that we needed to take the kids up to Montreal for a weekend hockey game I got a text from our herd manager, Kim McAllister: herd health was done. Surely she meant done for the day? Nope, done…
A further tweak of the male sales list…
Not a whole lot going on on the farm today (alpacas eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing doesn’t count, sorry) other than snow removal from yesterday’s storm. So with the cleanup under control, and the farm’s vaccine order delayed by yesterday’s weather–thus postponing February herd health day until at least Monday–I finally got to add a…
Enough Already!
So this is quickly rounding into form as the snowiest winter of my adulthood. Though I’ve yet to add up the cumulative snowfall here, I would guess that after the 18 to 20 inches we got yesterday and today that we’ve got to be at 5’+ at this point for the year and February is…
Female sales list updated
So in addition to the already posted bred females which have been up for the better part of two weeks, there are now 8 members of the 2010 birth class that joined them as of today on our farm’s web site. The juveniles run the gamut of price and quality from relative entry-level breeding females…