I’ve known that my 300th post was coming. I was quite honestly planning on probably putting up a gratuitously cute cria photo. Who doesn’t like one of those after all? Ultimately though it seems fitting that with the 300th post since this blog’s inception in 2010, that we are in fact announcing two big wins…
May 4, 2012: We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with the Padgett family of A Paca Fun Farm on our newly minted 2-time Judges’ Choice winner (NAAS & Futurity), CCNF Elixir! We have known and admired the Padgetts and their breeding program for many years now and it has become almost tradition to…
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…
As I pointed out a couple of days ago, going to alpaca shows with high expectations can be an exercise in futility and disappointment some times. What you think you have in your show pens and what the judges think you have are not always the same thing. Let us also not forget that particularly…
For 11 years now the North American Alpaca Show has acted as a de facto testing lab for our breeding program. Other than a couple of years when we sent animals to NC for an even earlier roll-out, the NAAS has usually been the first show that many of our juvenile show animals ever go…
The photo at left was one I took late last week after Cadenza’s newborn son had dried off and was starting to look more presentable to the outside world. We’ll be gradually weaning him off of the cria coat and the dog sweater beneath it, with the entire feed group in the warm room (we…
