I’m admittedly not at home as I’m posting this as we are all still in Italy for 6 more days celebrating my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Yes, yes…pain and suffering abounds. Just the same I thought I’d put up the photo below which I took last week the day before we left the farm. This…
Some parts of each year are just like this. We of course try to be as proactive as possible about things both in our family life as well as with stuff pertaining to the animals in the herd (as if that were really separate) but ultimately there come moments — and suspiciously they seem to…
So the bad news with Boheme is that it is now clear that she and her cria will never truly bond in the conventional sense. This is for at least two reasons. First and foremost the trauma of the operation which allowed her daughter, Musette, to come into this world was apparently simply too much. The…
We are thrilled to announce that Celebrity Sales today named us the Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year for the 2012 Futurity! While we have truly never gone out to the Futurity chasing that particular trophy, this year the stars aligned just right for what was the deepest show string in our breeding program’s history….
As of 2011 we had gone some 14 years without having to do a cesarean birth here. We were probably a little too proud of that in fact and let’s face it: we all know what that inevitably leads to. Our beloved former show female, Seraphim, developed such a bad uterine torsion at full term…
I’ve known that my 300th post was coming. I was quite honestly planning on probably putting up a gratuitously cute cria photo. Who doesn’t like one of those after all? Ultimately though it seems fitting that with the 300th post since this blog’s inception in 2010, that we are in fact announcing two big wins…
