Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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Thanks to our Royal Progeny buyers!
Many thanks to the Gilmore family of Central Hill Farm Alpacas and Tim and Debbie McCarty of Heather’s Acre Alpaca Farm for purchasing our two lots this past Saturday at the Royal Progeny Alpaca Auction! Both CCNF Opaline (pictured above) and CCNF Ariel are going to established breeding programs where their genetics will get to…
CCNF Females at the 2019 Royal Progeny Auction!
We are excited to be consigning two beautiful yearling females to the upcoming Royal Progeny Alpaca Auction, being held this year at the host farm itself, Alpaca Palace in Butler, PA! Held the weekend of of October 18th and 19th, the sale is bringing together some of the top alpaca breeding programs from across the…
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth Is: CCNF Slouches Towards Carbon Neutrality
So look, let’s begin with this from the Department of Keeping It Real: I’m not sure that when it comes to the final math, that one can repeatedly haul alpacas long distances with diesel trucks and perhaps more importantly, travel as much as we do both domestically and overseas, and still claim some kind of…
Nashville Fleeceline: CCNF at the 2019 Natural Fiber Extravaganza & AOA National Fleece Show (AKA We went to Nashville and all I got was this handy beer cozy)
About 10 days before we traveled to Nashville and the Natural Fiber Extravaganza for the 2nd consecutive year, we were privileged to attend a premier of episode 3 of filmmaker Ken Burns’s upcoming documentary, Country Music, at Dartmouth College. Burns is a resident of nearby Walpole, NH so the Upper Connecticut River Valley is kind…
Summer Stretch
As I write this, we are in the thick of birthing and breeding season, most likely even a little more than 50% of the way through it in fact. With the the final in-house breeding having taken place late last summer on September 15th, a birthing season that in years gone by used to often…
A Father & Son Futurity HoTY Twosome!
“…you are what your record says you are.” – Coach Bill Parcells We are tickled to announce that CCNF Elixir has been named the Futurity Herdsire of the Year (Light Colored Offspring) for the third year in a row! It’s been a nice little run, to put it mildly. We’re not sure where that puts…