Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Old Ladies Rule.
Just a small addendum to the geriatric article posted earlier today: PPeruvian Senora was just ultrasounded pregnant this morning at what one would estimate (ARI does not list a DoB, funnily enough) is approximately 18 years of age given that her first registered cria was born in 1995. For trivia’s sake the current breeding is…
Observations on the Geriatric Female Alpaca, Part 1 (reprinted from Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles, Spring 2010)
What follows below is a reprint of the final husbandry article that appeared in the Spring 2010 issue (the final hardcopy produced) of Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles. For those of you that haven’t seen it before, here you go. For those of you that have already read it, my apologies. Again. If nothing else, I figure that…
Raining here today…finally.
We have just been through what has undoubtedly been one of the driest summers in recent memory. Easy evidence of this can be found in our pond here on the farm, which is down perhaps almost 4′ from its top level. Last summer by comparison that pond was overflowing well into July, if not August….
The End (of birthing season) is Near!
So after 55+/- births we are down to our final 10 due females of the 2010 birthing season. We still have a few late August girls (using 11 months as general guideline) that are holding out on us but births have otherwise been generally arriving on schedule, with the last stragglers due in early November….
A Statement of Intent, Part #2: Snowmass Elite Legend
Given that we have known each other for less than a decade, we have quickly amassed quite a history with our friends Ryen and Ursula Munro of Tripping Gnome Farm. Though the professional and the personal don’t always blend well, we feel very blessed that in this case they have. There are times of the…
A Statement of Intent, Part #1: TKO’s King of the Ladies
This is the story, seen from Cas-Cad-Nac’s perspective, of how a superlative young Herdsire came to join our ranks. For the other side of the same story, one that is admittedly missing the elements of darkness and loss, check out Scott Young’s excellent narrative here. When we lost our beloved and iconic Herdsire, SuperNova, this…