Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Starting to think about the Spring
No, not that way. I mean really: get your mind out of the gutter! This is after all a (mostly) family-oriented blog. How about PG-13? Alright, never mind. In any case we seem to have two modes on this farm when it comes to the offseason here between the months of November and March (at…
Which of these critters are not like the others?
Just a little photographic teaser today. Below are six fiber shots taken last week. One of the animals featured has won a banner before and is slated to start working as a legit Herdsire this coming spring. Two others are on the outside looking in of the depth chart for white males born in 2011…
Paddock condition?
Remember when it was cold in the Northeast last weekend? Yeah, shocking but true it is still — at least according to the calendar — winter here, yet we have all been made so soft by the mild temperatures of the past couple of months that when Mother Nature actually acted normally we all started…
A relatively quiet week
All is quiet on the northern front. Which really is as it should be this time of year. Jen and Kim did the mighty herd-wide cria weigh-in yesterday at the Arena and though their backs weren’t feeling so great by the end of the day, our scale just confirmed what we already suspected: no one…
2011 1sts, Championships, and Specialty Awards
Yes, it’s the shameless pat-ourselves-on-the-back-for-walking-in-circles post here at CCNF Chronicles. For years a similar edition of the hard copy newsletter would hit the mail around the 15th of January filled with show results and glossy photos. Well, kind of the same idea here except that I’m two weeks late, the photos aren’t glossy (pixely?), and you…
Show picking
Hard to believe but it’s that time of year again already. Just 2 months or so after putting the 2011 show season to bed it’s already time to start doing a bit of planning for our first spring shows in April. Admittedly, if we were hardcore we could be heading off on the road in…