Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
CCNF’s consignments to the 2024 Parade of Champions Auction!
Now that our friends at Celebrity Sales have completed their annual right of spring, we feel free to promote our consignments to the upcoming Parade of Champions Auction, to be held, as always, at Little Creek Farm in North Salem, NY May 31 to June 1, 2024! First off, is actually a substitution lot, after…
CCNF at the 2024 Alpaca Jamboree
Did I touch the box containing the ashes of my friend, CCNF Elixir, for good luck as we left our house early on Wednesday morning, April 3, to head to Harrisburg and the 2024 Alpaca Jamboree? I did, indeed. These superstitious tendencies run deep, particularly on my paternal side, so I was just leaning into…
CCNF Lunar Quinton on to Bigger Things!
Thank you, and congratulations to the good folks at Autumn Mist Alpaca Farm, Cabin View Alpacas, and Russel’s Alpaca Acres for their recent purchase of CCNF Lunar Quinton (CCNF Luna Majesty x CCNF Elixir)! We had gone to last week’s Alpaca Jamboree event in Harrisburg with that yearling member of his storied six full-sibling group…
CCNF Reign Dancer Now Co-Owned with Clover Bottom Alpaca Ranch!
We would like to offer our thanks and congratulations to Terry Passanante of Clover Bottom Alpaca Ranch in Washington, MO, for her purchase of half interest in our Herdsire, CCNF Reign Dancer! The son of Futurity JC winner, CCNF Sovereign-Legacy, and a Kahuna/Matrix cross, TGF Let Freedom Reign (thank you, yet again, beloved Munro family!),…
CCNF Elixir, 08/09/11 – 10/29/23
We said goodbye on Sunday to arguably the single most prolific Herdsire in our breeding program’s 26-year history. That Elixir took his final breaths while in the arms of his primary life-long handler, was both a great privilege and incredibly hard for me in equal measure. That was more or less verbatim what I also…
Majestic Peruvian Bell Ringer Joins the Fray!
If you spend more than 10 minutes talking shop with us here, sooner or later we will get around to the topic of the domestic US alpaca herd being far too interrelated. It’s been understood for many years now that the vast majority of elite alpaca genetics here in North America, and particularly those of…