Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
First Look: CCNF Truly Devine – Lot #14 at the 2022 Futurity Sale!
Might CCNF Truly Devine be the best white/light female alpaca we have ever offered for sale in any venue, whether at auction or by private treaty, in our 25 years in the alpaca business? Judging from the look of utter dismay on my wife’s face when we were doing herd health last week and split…
First Look: CCNF Priam’s Campanita – Lot #2 at the 2022 Futurity Sale!
So, here we go. After a 3 year hiatus, courtesy of a certain global pandemic, we are headed back to Kansas City, MO and the Futurity Show & Sale for the first time since the spring of 2019. While we are obviously excited to be taking part again, the logistics of training the juvenile half…
Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Turns 25!
I swear that we’re not still here just for the hoody/t-shirt collection that inevitably comes with our farm’s 25th anniversary. I kid, mostly. That said, the list of things either of us has put at least 25 years into is a reasonably short one: I have been someone’s son and brother for 50 years (ta-dah!),…
CCNF at the 2021 Showtacular: (Finally) Back in the Saddle
The global Covid pandemic that first roared to life in the winter of 2020, canceling that year’s Futurity in Kansas City, kept us from running out a show team that, at that time, we considered far and away the deepest our breeding program had ever produced. It would have been a combination of 2018-born animals…
Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent: CCNF Archangel, 4/30/03 – 10/1/21
Though father time will, of course, wait for none of us, we are nonetheless sad to announce the passing of CCNF Archangel. Arch passed naturally, within 30 feet of the very pen where he was born over 18 years ago. It has been weird to go up to the Main Barn these past couple of…
Seasons of Change
Hello again, out there in alpacadom! When last we spoke, it was mid-July, and somehow my brilliant wife had just survived the tightrope walk of skirting her 50+ fleeces for the National Fleece Show while simultaneously running the gauntlet of the heart of our birthing season as the head midwife here at CCNF. It was…