It was some five and a half years ago as I sat in my basement office searching the internet for new light colored females to add to our foundation herd that we came across Tessora. Her discovery came after several frustrating days of calling up breeders that had females listed, often times for exorbitant prices…
Well after all this bluster about big rain storms all we’ve seen so far are lots of overcast skies and roughly 70 degree weather today (cue monsoon/hail storm). Jen went shopping earlier at one of the big-lot stores for our upcoming shearing days, equipping the break room at the Arena with more cookies, brownies, chips, rolls,…
Word from Kimmy back on the farm is that Star Saphire gave birth yesterday morning to a beautiful little beige King of the Ladies girl! That is not only the first cria of the 2011 birth class but also Kinger’s first born for CCNF (his actual first was born a couple of weeks ago at…
There has been a shift in the daily schedule here necessitated by the time of year. Specifically there are females that are now 10.5 months removed from the date on which they were bred. Though the average gestation here has historically gone some 11 months and 10 days or so we have learned the hard…
For those of you that might not be aware, the Quechua Benefit will be holding its annual charity auction and dinner tomorrow evening in conjunction with the Futurity. This is the organization’s major fundraising event of every calendar year and with the donated help of the good folks at Celebrity Sales they will be auctioning…
My apologies for not posting anything these past few days: I wanted to make sure I got this behemoth right. So I really hadn’t planned on things lining up this way but as it turns out this year-in-review/show results tittle-tattle has the trivial distinction of being the new CCNF Chronicles’ 100th post since its inception in…
