Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
The week that was…
Sorry to have been absent from the posting world for several days now. Yours truly was caught up doing final revisions on our farm’s entries for the upcoming National Elite auction in November. Much much more on that to come in the near future… The crias have been coming steadily now for the past 10…
Guard Chickens!
Folks have often asked us what we do for guard animals? Llamas? You mean larger camelids that don’t produce an alpaca cria? Uh, no. We’re an alpaca farm. LGDs? While we gave it some thought over the years, the idea of having something on the farm that could bite our kids far outweighed (read: was…
How can you tell when your females are open and ready for breeding?
When there are 6 of them cushed right up against another breeding! This shot was taken yesterday @5PM at the CCNF Arena. Unfortunately for Precocious (the lucky Herdsire in this particular instance) only one of the others is slated for him in the coming days. I’m sure it’s an ego boost just the same though…
Truth in Imagery…
So the fact of the matter is that the image that we used across the front page for the entire life of our newsletter (and now here across the top of this blog) hasn’t been representational of the farm’s actual appearance for over 11 years now. As you can see in the new photo on…
…and then the women do all the work!
Jen Lutz and CCNF Herd Manager Kim McAllister do an early ultra sound to find out if the boys are actually worth as much as we all claim! In this particular case it turned out the male in question was nothing but fluffed-up, over-hyped hot air.