Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A Winter of Celibacy at the Stud Barn: Now Girls Put Your Ears Back and Say “No, No, No!”
So this morning I did (facilitated would be a better word) what should be the final 2010 breeding within the CCNF foundation herd, that is females which we own whom will most likely be birthing out here in 2011. In recent times we have tried to get more and more disciplined about trying to constrict…
Coming soon: the virtual CCNF farm tour
I’ve had it in my mind for a while now that when things slowed down in the off-season that one of the things I could do would be to make a virtual tour of the farm’s major structures in pictures and maybe even some video. This is definitely something that is only possible because of…
March of the Guard Chickens
I have to say that hearing a rooster crow here at CCNF has been a really nice addition in 2010. It certainly has made things feel even more “farmy.” Back when we first got our chicks in March they went from living in a box with a heat light in Jen’s office (they literally arrive…
Welcome to December!
Last Saturday it snowed here (see Max’s miniature ode to the coming season at left), really just enough to make the roads treacherous and remind us all that we had been lax in getting our winter tires put on. That it came in squall form over the course of just an hour or two and…
The post-Thanksgiving Hangover.
No, I’m not talking about that kind of hangover. Not that the past four days with my older sibling did not present ample opportunities to create that sort of problem but I like to think that, if nothing else, I’ve at least learned how to pace myself over the years where the consumption of certain…
A Day of Thanks…
The extended Lutz clan is gathering at the farm today (and for the entire Thanksgiving weekend) from Cambridge and NYC. Best of all is the chance for the four cousins (ages 9 to almost 13), who truly adore one another, to hang together for several days without the pressures of their normal daily schedules. For…