Cas-Cad-Nac Farm and A Paca Fun Farm are thrilled to announce that our not-quite-2-year-old (his birthday is August 9th) Champion Herdsire, CCNF Elixir, has settled his first females, with multiple pregnancies being confirmed via sonogram! Elixir had been in steady training for his real job since first going home to A Paca Fun Farm after the Futurity in…
Elixir came home yesterday, delivered to CCNF — and in the air-conditioned comfort of Penny’s car no less — by our friends and his co owners at A Paca Fun Farm in Maryland! I’m looking forward to having him here and trying to get him working in the next few days. There is the…
We got home from a weeks’ vacation this past Sunday night, driving a rental car from Boston through what, at that time, was the latest winter weather blast to hit the northeast. I have to say that landing at Logan in falling snow with little more than a 500′ cloud ceiling was rather disconcerting. At…
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…
So while we will openly confess that our former white show girl, Pristine, was bred last year to Snowmass Matrix Majesty on a bit of whim-and-a-prayer, the result seen in the accompanying picture kind of speaks for itself (himself actually). Having bred her to SuperNova as a maiden in 2010, in what was one of…
The alpacas here at CCNF could care less that their herd manager has been off for the past week making wedding vows, changing her name, and doing all that gooey cuddly stuff that newlyweds do like staring into each other’s eyes just because they can (hey, been there, done that: it’s pretty great actually…but I…
