Hello again, out there in alpacadom! When last we spoke, it was mid-July, and somehow my brilliant wife had just survived the tightrope walk of skirting her 50+ fleeces for the National Fleece Show while simultaneously running the gauntlet of the heart of our birthing season as the head midwife here at CCNF. It was…
Wow, the last few weeks feel like they took place at double speed and one result of that, is that this space has been conspicuously neglected. We went from putting the final touches on our new farm cookbook (read: immersed in proofreading and the annoying minutiae until we really didn’t feel like looking at it…
Holy baby boom Batman! Jen started the tradition several years back of taking the farm’s staff out to the local Chinese buffet for lunch any time that we have had 3 or more crias born in a given 24 hour period. The reality of late though, is that we had that happen days ago and frankly…
Jen and Kim spent a good chunk of the weekend shifting everyone around up at the Arena after the latest round of herd health, our final one before shearing next month. As the vast majority of the 2011 crias are now weaned at this point, the nutritional needs of our adult female herd have really…
The funny thing was that we were supposed to have a quick and easy herd health day last Sunday in a month when all we had to do was shots and body scoring. In the normal course of things that should have taken us maybe 5 cumulative hours to go through the 220 +/- animals…
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…
