It got a little bit whiney around here the other day. With shearing completed early last week, it was finally time to wean the last 12 crias (8 males, 4 females) from the 2012 birth class! Fitting, I suppose, that they should leave the confines of the Arena just prior to the arrival up there…
It’s that time again, when we look back at the previous year’s show winnings and howl at the moon for just a moment or two. 2012 marked Cas-Cad-Nac Farm’s 15th anniversary and as one might reasonably expect of a program that has been around that long, our winnings reflect the cumulative effect of careful and…
Last week at this time there were still 5 of our females left to deliver their babies this year. While that would be all well and good in the early fall when nighttime temperatures don’t tend to drop much lower than the 40s, when there are crias due and there’s a hard frost on the…
We went to Nebraska last week hopeful that we would compete if nothing else. While we have certainly had our share of success stories at the Futurity over the years, there have also been many times when we have gone with animals we genuinely believed in only to have our you-know-whats handed to us. If…
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…
I am beat right now. Which perhaps begs the question why I am here in my office at 10:18 posting this when I should be curled up in bed? In any case today was a relatively easy beginning to what will either be a 3 or 4 day adventure depending on how hard we push…
