Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A beautiful day
We no longer have someone working for us named Kim McAllister. This is because this past Saturday our beloved herd manger, who has been on a well deserved break for the last week, married her fiance, Brian Duprey, in a small and raucous — turn it up to 11! — ceremony held at their house…
Sales listings updated
So I have to confess that keeping up to date sales listings on our various presences on the web has not always been my, um…strong suit. Particularly this time of the year when between breeding and birthing — which are pretty much a constant from May through October — it’s very easy to find other more…
Invictus is fully operational!
We are excited to announce that our young Champion Herdsire, CCNF Invictus, now has confirmed pregnancies! The son of two Futurity Champions, MFI Peruvian Precocious and CCNF Opal, we are looking for this stellar beige colored male to do some exciting things within both our colored as well as our white breeding programs here at…
Cria grafting again
So there we were on Thursday all excited because our former show girl, Isabella Star, had just given birth to her 2nd cria ever and was actually letting the little guy nurse. You see her first cria from last year — the one and only infamous Booger, who it should be noted is now down…
The natural course of things
Some relatively big happenings here on the farm yesterday. For one, our female Boheme who, along with her little girl Musette (that’s her at left eyeballing me in the pasture), has been back in the general population since late last week, was bred for the first time since her daughter came to us via cesarean…
Empty nesting
Well not permanently. We just drove yesterday at the crack of dawn to leave our boys in the ever-capable hands of our friends at Camp Hilltop in upstate NY for two weeks. The house here at the farm is definitely a quieter place than it was for the the first part of the summer, though…