Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
The graphically-intense, gratuitous cria photo post
Mailing it in? Perhaps. The title rather says it all, as will the general lack of non graphic-based content. Some times when writer’s block hits it’s best to just go with it. Thankfully, as I was out shooting some pics of new sales animals we’re getting ready to list, I was also able to get…
Solano’s turn…with a twist.
Not a whole lot going on here today in terms of action on the farm aside from a few breedings earlier in the day. We have a household of happy visitors in the forms of our old college friends and their kids as well as the younger of our two nieces seeking refuge from the…
Happy to pay the pros!
While I don’t know what I might be doing with my life right now were we not running this farm, there is one thing I can say unequivocally that it would not be: hauling alpacas for a living. Much as it pains me to contemplate it, perhaps I am starting to show my age just…
Sisters that birth out together stay together?
There are certain maternal lines within our breeding program that we really cannot get enough of. 5P Cangalli and her daughters Enchantress, Ascension, Requiem, and now littlest sister Sovereign Gemm fall into that category. Likewise for PP Jesusa, her wonder-kids Magdalena and Golden Sovereign, their sister Chalice and the various ensuing tasty offshoots (Moonlight, Johanna,…
Getting some first impressions
With 12+ crias on the ground here, Jen and Kim have been starting to shear some little ones over the past several days. I know breeders have different ideas about when and how to shear their crias and for us it’s all really just based upon what we’ve experienced. Namely that by waiting until a…
Chillin’ with our Gnomeys
We’re actually away for a couple of nights in Montreal, Quebec seeing U2 (yes, again) in this most European of North American cities. Last night we took our kids to see and hear the band whose music, I in particular, have subjected them to ever since they were born. Though getting to bed around midnight…