Many thanks to our partners at A Paca Fun Farm for taking our young co owned Herdsire, CCNF Elixir, with them to the VAOBA Alpaca Expo this past weekend where he won both Light Male Huacaya Champion as well as Judge’s Choice Huacaya Male! With his 5th halter Championship at his 5th show (to go…
There were some heavy hearts around here late yesterday afternoon. Though we had known it was coming for quite some time, yesterday was a tough one as we finally made the decision to put down both Legacy Gold and 5P Cangalli. LG, who had lost most of his teeth (front and back) over the past…
With our return home this past Sunday evening from the Vermont show, we concluded four straight weekends of alpaca events. Though fun throughout, the last three weekends have involved Jen and I being away from home three days of each week and sleeping in hotel beds of variable quality. At least Sam and Max were…
Aside from the fact that there may be some fuses lit later tonight, today is really just another midsummer’s day here at CCNF. We did finally have our first cria born in over a week early yesterday morning. It always makes us a little nervous when there are no births coming at regular intervals as…
May 4, 2012: We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with the Padgett family of A Paca Fun Farm on our newly minted 2-time Judges’ Choice winner (NAAS & Futurity), CCNF Elixir! We have known and admired the Padgetts and their breeding program for many years now and it has become almost tradition to…
For 11 years now the North American Alpaca Show has acted as a de facto testing lab for our breeding program. Other than a couple of years when we sent animals to NC for an even earlier roll-out, the NAAS has usually been the first show that many of our juvenile show animals ever go…
