Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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A Futurity Repeat with Some Added Spice!
We are thrilled to announce that after the recently completed tallying of the final show results from the 2018 Futurity Show (you can read more about our little adventure in KC here), Cas-Cad-Nac Farm was just officially awarded: The 2018 Futurity Breeder of the Year (Large Farm Division) 2018 Futurity Herdsire of the Year (Light…
CCNF at the 2018 Parade of Champions!
We have been fortunate in recent years to be invited to participate in the annual Parade of Champions auction, which nowadays takes place every spring at Little Creek Farm in North Salem, NY, this time around on June 1st & 2nd. As the alpaca market…
Thank You Tradewinds Farm!
A belated thank you to Brian and Dena Drago of Tradewinds Farm for their purchase of our Futurity auction female and Elixir daughter, CCNF Sweet Confection! That would be her and Brian, at left, after the show in Kansas City last month. Sweet Confection did great in her final show, taking 2nd in a class…
CCNF at the 2018 Futurity: Know Who You Are
“…All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring I am not a fan of back to back show weekends. In fact, I am really more whatever the opposite of a fan is. Though a condensed spring show season such…
CCNF Results from the 2018 North American Alpaca Show & Northeast Alpaca Expo
So here are the most relevant of our results from the NAAS/NAE double show which took place the weekend after Easter. As with the previous 16 editions of the North American, the event was again held at the Eastern States Exposition Center in western Massachusetts, just a short 2 hour drive straight down I-91 for…
#ABitOfAWeekend
There are few things more obviously joyous and playful that we as alpaca breeders get to witness than the post-show pasture pronk the show team animals inevitably go on whenever we first get home from an event and they get off of the trailers and run out into their respective paddocks, often greeted by their…