Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
The end is near
No, not that end. Nor that one. I’m just talking about the end of the birthing season here! With the final 9 expectant females all in the same feed group together up at the Arena, we can actually visualize it too. Of course if we were smart, we would have bred all of our females…
Open Farm Days
So this Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 4, we will be participating in AOBA’s National Alpaca Farm Days. Truth be told, it’s not going to be a whole lot different from any other weekend here on the farm except for the fact that we will have donuts, coffee, and cookies out and will be…
Beautiful Silence
While working in the Arena the other day, I had an auditory epiphany of sorts. Though we had been going for days (and some times weeks…when it wasn’t 90 degrees) at a time with all of the hanging fans up there turned off as the days and nights had turned cooler, there was a greater…
Rotation
What a week it’s been here! On Monday we blitzed through a full blown version of herd health day (read: with toe nail trimming) in just 5 and a half hours. Even by our standards, that was pretty quick for 250 animals. Though as my better half pointed out, the due girls were all kind enough…
Thank you!
I’m sitting here today as the parent of a newly minted high school freshman. So far, so good. I think it’s safe to say that Sammy’s parents were at least as nervous about him making the big jump up yesterday as he was. At the moment though I’m just enjoying the fact that for the…
Life as a blur
Some time over the past couple of weeks we officially passed the halfway mark of our 2013 birthing season. That is to say that there are now more crias on the ground romping around the pastures than there are due females in our maternity pens. I can’t honestly tell you when it was, or the…