Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Ending the 2017 Show Season on a High Note.
This past weekend brought to a close what was unquestionably one of our best years ever on the alpaca show circuit. Some of that is of course down to 20 years of experience breeding these amazing animals though undeniably, in order for 2017 to have gone as well as it did, the genetic stars also…
Goodbye to alpaca sex for another year, prepping for the fall shows, and CCNF Chronicles’ 500th post!
And just like that, the birthing and breeding season came to an end here on October 1st! Though there are still a few females here for outside breedings that the fellas of the CCNF Stud Barn will have to work on, as the person in charge of managing the breeding operations here, it does feel…
On the end of birthing/breeding season, semi-empty nests, and Hurricane Irma.
Greetings from the far side of birthing season! Seems like just yesterday that Jen and I were coming up with breeding assignments — which Herdsires would breed with which females — for the 2017 season and that she and our herd manager, Kim Duprey, were staring down a list of some 75+ due females for…
CCNF At The 2017 AOA National Fleece Show
Though for the past couple of years we have “attended” the AOA mid-summer soirees known formally as the National Fleece Conferences in person, in truth what we really did on both occasions was drop off our show fleeces and then use the location of the conferences as an excuse to hoof around with our kids,…
CCNF Dreadnought: Rookie Got Game!
We are pleased to announce that our rookie Herdsire and newly-minted AOA National Fleece Show Fawn Champion Male, CCNF Dreadnought, has achieved his first confirmed pregnancies here at CCNF! This is very good thing creating real clarity going forward, particularly for yours truly who manages the breeding around these parts. Though Dreadnought had both his…
Thank You to Foster’s Trail & Alpaca Farm and Nuevo Mundo Alpaca!
Many thanks to Susan & Peter Goodwin of Foster’s Trail & Alpaca Farm for their purchase of CCNF Adanna and to Elizabeth Ferguson and Jose Palma of Nuevo Mundo Alpaca for their purchase of CCNF Charmaine, both at the 2017 Parade of Champions Auction last weekend! Each of those females represents a really good shot…