Oh, the joys of a late winter road trip! After watching and fretting over the weather forecast starting almost a week in advance — and with things looking increasingly dire with each passing day — we got the automated call from Sam’s high school last Tuesday night (3/11), that his school was in fact cancelled…
I have finally got the write-ups done on two of our young up and coming Herdsires: Defiance, who is homegrown and his 1st cousin, Spirit Wind’s Maestro, whom we acquired from Karin and Jerry Young at Spirit Wind Farm & Fiber Studio. Big…
Some time over the past couple of weeks we officially passed the halfway mark of our 2013 birthing season. That is to say that there are now more crias on the ground romping around the pastures than there are due females in our maternity pens. I can’t honestly tell you when it was, or the…
I have to say that not personally being in Denver, Colorado this past May for the AOBA National Conference and Show was rather disappointing! It wasn’t because I loved the idea of driving 20+ hours with a trailer full of alpacas to the Rocky Mountain West, something which in fact was never in the cards….
Here is another batch of results from the 2nd of the spring fleece shows we were in back in May. PAOBA marked the final show for all of these fleeces, all of which were from the 2012 clip. No surprise, the big names continued to do quite well in spite of the wear and tear…
With some official results posted the other day on AOBA’s web site, we are now able to start reporting on some of our our winnings from the spring fleece shows! MAPACA was the first fleece show of the spring for us, and like the PAOBA Breeder’s Showcase which followed shortly thereafter, our fleece entries in…
