That was fun. Well, parts of it anyways. Look, we make no bones about the fact that we were intent on returning to the Futurity Show in Kansas City, MO, for the first time since 2019 (aka, the before Covid times), specifically to pursue the Large Breeder of the Year honors, as we have done…
The global Covid pandemic that first roared to life in the winter of 2020, canceling that year’s Futurity in Kansas City, kept us from running out a show team that, at that time, we considered far and away the deepest our breeding program had ever produced. It would have been a combination of 2018-born animals…
So, are we all having fun yet? Back in the late winter as we watched the annual Futurity show in Kansas City get justifiably cancelled due to the pandemic, I’m not sure that we had any real notion that we’d still be staring into that same proverbial gun barrel come the fall of 2020. Naivete,…
So I’d love to be sitting here writing about the great long weekend Jen and I just spent 10 days ago, wandering the live music venues in Nashville but, you know…2020. For the past couple of years, our July sojourn in Music City had become a mid-summer tradition of sorts, attending the AOA Natural Fiber…
As I write this, we are in the thick of birthing and breeding season, most likely even a little more than 50% of the way through it in fact. With the the final in-house breeding having taken place late last summer on September 15th, a birthing season that in years gone by used to often…
We are excited to announce that we have yet another newly operational Herdsire in our breeding program: CCNF Angiolo! As the person who manages 90%+ of the breeding activity here at our farm, I have seen quite a lot of variation over the years when it comes to the breeding behaviors of alpaca males. Some…
