Some big news heading into the 2012 breeding season: for the first time in over 4 years CCNF Archangel will again be open for outside stud services! After talking it over with our friends and co-owners at Tripping Gnome Farm Alpacas, breedings to the Arch will be offered at $4,000 with a $500 discount available…
Yes, it’s the shameless pat-ourselves-on-the-back-for-walking-in-circles post here at CCNF Chronicles. For years a similar edition of the hard copy newsletter would hit the mail around the 15th of January filled with show results and glossy photos. Well, kind of the same idea here except that I’m two weeks late, the photos aren’t glossy (pixely?), and you…
We had some suspicions about this young fellow when he first hit the ground. He just looked other. Admittedly when we bred Invictus’ dam Opal with his sire, Precocious, we were hoping for something a little darker than beige. Though Precocious is a white Futurity Champion he comes from a paternal line (Jeremiah/Jericho) just as…
Bellagio is admittedly one young boy that slipped through the sales list cracks. He was a relatively late birth in 2010 and as such was really off of our radar screen a bit, not having been ready for show duty yet last spring. As the picture shows, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t worth the wait…
While we were off last weekend walking in circles at the Green Mountain Show, our four year old Herdsire, CCNF Avenger, very quietly wrote his name in the annals of our breeding program. Avenger is a son of Archangel and CPeruvian Stacey, a rather grumpy but nonetheless highly valued member of our foundation herd that’s…
Sorry not to have posted as much lately. The truth is I didn’t expect that any of you would find stories of commutes to and from school/soccer practice/games mixed in with exciting tales of rain falling on an alpaca farm all that exciting. New England as a whole (yours truly included) has also spent the…
