Welcome, little one…

Welcome, little one…

So after several weeks of being on cria watch, we finally had the first baby of 2014 born here yesterday afternoon! And, yes, if you’re wondering: we do still get excited every time a new cria arrives!  The mom in question, Golden Bliss, had almost always historically gone into labor 2 to 3 weeks shy of her…

Fleur gets a new home!

Fleur gets a new home!

We want to extend our deepest thanks to Pamela Brewster of Stillmeadow Farm Alpacas for her purchase of CCNF Fleur this past weekend at the 2014 Parade of Champions Sale! Of course Pam and her crew are not unfamiliar to us in the least as we already co own three of our Herdsires with Stillmeadow: Legit,…

Graze naked

Graze naked

The herd at CCNF has actually been shorn for almost 2 weeks now, though it’s telling of how full life has been that this is the first mention I’ve made of it here. After doing 2 days of shearing at the start of the month, our shearer, Matt Best, came back here on Monday the 12th…

Interlude

So after 2 days of shearing, we have 145 of the 211 total animals we are doing this year done! All of our adult Herdsires, yearling and juvenile males and females, as well as any of our pregnant females that are due in June, all have groovy new haircuts as of this morning. Someone said…