Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
PPeruvian Senora, RIP
We lost our herd elder on Friday night. PPeruvian Senora (the 2 “Ps” signifying that she was part of the second Peruvian importation into the US in 1993) had joined us already a well-aged lady — in alpaca years — back in 02/03 as part of the deal that made us the then co owners…
Hey baby, what’s your name?
The time arrives each fall when after months of talking about the members of a given year’s birth class as “so-and-so’s cria,” we actually get down to the nitty gritty of naming these little buggers for real. For the most part that task falls to yours truly with Jen and Kim chiming in now and…
Happy Thanksgiving
Hope everyone has a good time today wherever you may be! We’re headed off to Jen’s folks’ place in East Barnard, VT, about a 45 minute drive from here to eat and hang with her extended family. Have scalloped potatoes, can travel. While I truly am into the reflective and gratitude giving nature of the…
Mop-up duty
The cria-making season is quickly winding down here. I can tell you with some assurance that the final scheduled breeding of 2011 will be on December 1st. There are however a couple of females we may end up having to make exceptions for beyond that date because of some special circumstances. All things being equal…
Cas-Cad-Nac Farm’s 2011 Year End Alpaca Sale
We are not beneath trying something a little different to drum up some end of the year spending. Crazy Ian’s? I’m partial to Crazy Jenny’s myself. No balloons though, I draw the line at balloons. Below is a slightly amended version of the notice I posted to the “What’s New” section of our website yesterday…
It’s black gold I tell ya!
Fall and winter prep has continued at full pace here over the past week. Not even the shearing off of the PTO shaft on our large manure spreader could slow our crew down for long. In fact as I write this, the pastures immediately around the Main Barn have been almost completely top-dressed with the…