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…
We are thrilled to announce that our newly minted 2 year old Herdsire, CCNF Bataclan, has achieved his first confirmed pregnancy – the direct result of his first ever breeding no less! Bataclan, who was last seen in public collecting the RC White Male banner and trophy from the 2018 Futurity, is a big part…
We are very excited to announce that we are returning to the Priority auction in Las Vegas as consignors for the first time in several years! Needless to say though, this is not our first rodeo and I will be the first to admit that auctions can be nervy affairs. There are few easier ways…
