Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Tale of the 2011 breeding tape
What is an alpaca breeding pimp facilitator to do now that the off season has truly arrived? Read, drink beer, and whine about the weather? We will of course be doing all of that and more in the days and months to come but I also had an inkling this morning. Sorry. To paraphrase Crash Davis…
This and that…
1. Why was it 41 degrees outside this morning? Leaving aside the fact that it would be nice to go skiing sometime soon, this is getting to be a tad bit bizarre. It says here that amongst the ranks of global climate change deniers you will not find too many farmers or people whose lives…
Then there was this guy!
Bellagio is admittedly one young boy that slipped through the sales list cracks. He was a relatively late birth in 2010 and as such was really off of our radar screen a bit, not having been ready for show duty yet last spring. As the picture shows, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t worth the wait…
A funny thing happened on the way to the sugar float (AKA fun with parasite management)
Oh the joy that is parasite management on an alpaca farm! Jen and Kim have spent the past several weeks meticulously going through the entire herd, one feed group at a time, doing fecal tests on every alpaca on the farm. Unfortunately there is no cool and easy way to get those individual samples other…
The Year End Sale – Just 2 Weeks Left!
The title really says it all so I wont belabor the point. Suffice it to say that there are some pretty special genetics — both males and females — availaible at some very reasonable prices (25% off our listed prices) for 14 more days. We haven’t exactly been sitting still either. Amongst some of the…
Sometimes we never seem to learn but we’ll keep trying!
We just finished December herd health the other day, which was no no great shakes given that it was a non-toenail month. All told it probably took maybe 4 hours? I was honestly only involved at the Arena, Jen and Kimberly having whipped out the Main Barn and the Stud Barn on their own, and…