Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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If it’s Thursday it’s trailer packing time!
Remember all that stuff we put away when we got home from Fort Wayne and Nationals back in May? Me neither. That’s right boys and girls: fall show season is here! It looks as though the weather gods are going to take some pity on us and let us (in the interest of full disclosure,…
Just back from one road trip, getting ready for another (and another).
I would like to observe that even the best hotel beds in the world fail to live up to that which I find at home. Add in lumpy pillows and noisy air conditioning and you’ve got a winning combination. That is one of the major factors (along with missing my family, obviously) that motivated me…
Will somebody please turn off the spigot?
Under the heading, “Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.” It’s been raining so hard here for the past 24 hours (and expected to go another 24) that there is some danger of serious road damage here on the mountainside. So far, so good though and for now the crowning on the…
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….