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…
With our return home this past Sunday evening from the Vermont show, we concluded four straight weekends of alpaca events. Though fun throughout, the last three weekends have involved Jen and I being away from home three days of each week and sleeping in hotel beds of variable quality. At least Sam and Max were…
Here we are just a little over a month away from the first show of the fall season (“season” is perhaps a little generous, it’s only two shows for us) and we now have to make our selections for the upcoming show rosters. While there are of course the top 7 or 8 alpacas from…
Some relatively big happenings here on the farm yesterday. For one, our female Boheme who, along with her little girl Musette (that’s her at left eyeballing me in the pasture), has been back in the general population since late last week, was bred for the first time since her daughter came to us via cesarean…
Aside from the fact that there may be some fuses lit later tonight, today is really just another midsummer’s day here at CCNF. We did finally have our first cria born in over a week early yesterday morning. It always makes us a little nervous when there are no births coming at regular intervals as…
Day 1 of shearing 2012 is in the books and we ended up doing a nice round 70 alpacas today. Only 137 to go! Below is the video I shot this morning of Futurity Judges’ Choice winner, CCNF Elixir, getting shorn. Minus a blip just before the blanket gets finished it’s pretty much start to…
