So here we are less than 48 hours away from loading up the trailer and heading not quite 100 miles north to the Green Mountain Alpaca Fall Spectacular in Essex, VT! As an aside, I’m quite certain that that is hands-down the longest name of any alpaca show in all of North America. In any…
What a week it’s been here! On Monday we blitzed through a full blown version of herd health day (read: with toe nail trimming) in just 5 and a half hours. Even by our standards, that was pretty quick for 250 animals. Though as my better half pointed out, the due girls were all kind enough…
Some of you may know that Cas-Cad-Nac Farm has a long history with the Umass Amherst Camelid Studies Program. It’s founder, Dr. Stephen Purdy, was our one-man-badsass-truck-driving veterinarian way back when this whole alpaca thing started for Jen and I in 1997. There was many a late night call that Steve took from us dealing…
Well, that was fun! We got home last night after a weekend away at the Green Mountain show in Essex Jct., just a short hour and forty minute drive north of us. Though we obviously take pride in our show results (2 Champions, 3 Reserves) what was even more gratifying than winning colored nylon was…
Oh man, I’m almost giddy: I just looked at the calendar and saw that there are really only 2.5 weeks left in our kids soccer season! Does that mean I’m not a true soccer dad? So be it. Much as I love watching them play it is safe to say that the 5 day a…
Sorry not to have posted anything for the past few days. It’s been a crazy 96 hours or so and we’re just getting started! As it turned out, my snarky comments about possibly unloading at last weekend’s Green Mountain show in the middle of a Nor’easter proved to be more accurate than I really could…
