That is the term of endearment around these parts for our crias as they approach 6 months of age and continue, often without real need or cause, to suck valuable calories off of their dear mothers. While we know that there are many alpaca folks out there who wean based upon a cria’s weight, we prefer to…
So one of the trickier aspects of putting animals into spring auctions is getting great promotional photos of them in the middle of the late winter or early spring. The choice for backdrop in northern New England this time of year, is usually either snow, mud, or maybe the best of both worlds: muddy snow!…
So after months of procrastination, our new e-commerce site, alpacameat.com, through which we will offer our farm’s alpaca meat as well as our tanned alpaca hides is live and can be found, amongst other ways, by following the “alpaca meat” button from CCNF’s proprietary web site! The new site had quite honestly been partially completed months…
We are thrilled to announce that our young Champion male, CCNF Nativity, has been consigned to the upcoming Futurity alpaca sale, which will be held on April 18th in Kansas City, MO! For those that are not already aware, Nativity is the full sibling of 2012 Futurity Judges’ Choice winner, CCNF Elixir, and the maternal sibling…
Interesting things have been afoot here at CCNF over the past month or so. In between snow storms, hauls to Ontario to deliver Norway-bound animals into the next stage of their journey, and what felt like an all too-short family vacation just after Christmas, we have been quietly scheming. In a good way. It’s no…
After weeks of unavoidable delay (and quite honestly, a healthy touch of procrastination), the sales listings on both our proprietary web site as well as the farm’s pages on OpenHerd are fully updated. The sun finally made a brief appearance last Saturday morning and with Max’s help (it was his job to make an occasional…
