Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A closer look at the Avenger girls
I finally got a chance yesterday to snap several shots of Avenger’s two daughters while up at the Arena facilitating (vs. doing which would mean something else entirely) some late season breeding. The cool thing about these two little girls is that though their dams are both Ring of Fire kids, they come from completely unrelated…
Bedding change
Way back in January of 2002 we were, to my knowledge at least, one of the first alpaca farms to start using cardboard bedding on a large scale. Though I don’t have an exact number, I would say that since the construction of the Arena in the summer of 2003 we have constantly bedded down…
So that’s why we have a warm room!
The warm room at the Arena pretty much paid for itself today. Jen went up to do morning check this morning at 6AM and found that Blossom had given birth to a happy, healthy, dark fawn female. That the baby was up and walking with mom’s placenta already expelled and cold means that it was…
Buttoned up just in time…
We’ve spent the last 5 days or so shifting the farm into it’s winter stance and I’d been meaning to (and probably still will) snap a photo or two to show you all what that entails. Of course I thought that with our pastures essentially used up for the season that we were just being…
Seraphim update
Just a quick one here updating you on the status of our c-section girl, Seraphim. 24 days after the rather dramatic birth of her little girl, Avalon, both mom and cria seem to doing fantastically well! Though they will be living for several months yet in our warm room because of Seraphim’s surgically sheared left…
On to bigger and better things!
If you were expecting a post about big life changes from your truly, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Our client Diana Fiorey from Crescendo Acres Farm sent me the photo below yesterday of two of our former boys, now ultimate PR geldings, in their natty crafts fair best. I almost splooged coffee onto my monitor when…