Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
We don’t need no stinkin’ 30′ trailer…we’ve got a Prius!
So I confess that posting this was mostly an excuse to try the new Youtube plugin that Terry Miller helped me install the other day. Hopefully more heady material will follow in the days and months to come. Nonetheless as the footage below can attest, our Toyota Prius — which we originally bought post-Katrina because…
Setting up the first maternity ward of 2012
Jen and Kim spent a good chunk of the weekend shifting everyone around up at the Arena after the latest round of herd health, our final one before shearing next month. As the vast majority of the 2011 crias are now weaned at this point, the nutritional needs of our adult female herd have really…
Jim King, RIP
Just heard within the last hour the horrible news of the passing of our friend and colleague, Jim King of Skyeview Alpacas. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sue and and the rest of the King family…
NAAS Recap Part #2: Debutantes and Wily Veterans
As I pointed out a couple of days ago, going to alpaca shows with high expectations can be an exercise in futility and disappointment some times. What you think you have in your show pens and what the judges think you have are not always the same thing. Let us also not forget that particularly…
NAAS Recap Part #1: The Tale of a Little Big Man
For 11 years now the North American Alpaca Show has acted as a de facto testing lab for our breeding program. Other than a couple of years when we sent animals to NC for an even earlier roll-out, the NAAS has usually been the first show that many of our juvenile show animals ever go…
Punchy…
Well I hadn’t intended to go almost a week without posting anything here but then life and the NAAS kind of took over. After unloading the trailer last night at the Main Barn, we managed to actually walk/stumble through the door here at home around 8:15 or so. Not bad considering that as late as…