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…
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…
After almost 36 straight hours of rain the sun finally broke out yesterday afternoon and as I write this the farm is inhabited by many disheveled looking but quickly drying out alpacas. I was headed up to the Arena around 5PM yesterday get Majesty his second breeding of the day — a good gig if…
It’s also just literally raining at the moment as well, something which we actually need. Yes, with the due females having conspired to go on a virtual maternity strike over the past couple of weeks we knew the logjam was bound to brake sooner or later. Of course what fun would it be for that…
Some times the question of who an animal is is just as important as the “what.” We have three females left to birth out this year and one of those is Requiem’s 15 year old dam, Cangalli, who all things being equal will be rebred again before the snow flies. That just might mean something……
