Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Weaner Time
I hope everyone reading this has had a safe and enjoyable Holiday season given the challenges and realities of the world as it currently stands. The most recent (and in relative terms, welcome) drama around these parts, was going from having 41″ of snow fall on 12/17, leading to what could have potentially been the…
Research conducted at CCNF published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
We are pleased to announce that the peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, has published the article titled “Birth of a Live Cria After Transfer of a Vitrified-Warmed Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) Preimplantation Embryo.” Though the conception, vitrification, implantation, and birth of CCNF Exuberant Frost Blossom-ET (that being the registered name of the cria that resulted,…
Shifting Into Cold Weather Mode
As we commence our 24th year of operation here, there is an undeniable seasonal rhythm to the management of the farm that we have grown accustomed to. Though some things are obviously different in the autumn of 2020 — our lack of a fall show season, training the 2019 yearlings in short-sleeves on November 29th,…
In Honor of a Reproductive Metronome: CCNF Marguerite
The arrival of November has meant that we are now officially commencing our 24th year of breeding alpacas and being in the alpaca business, arguably the last 10 years or so spent at our current size and rate of production (200-300 total animals at any given time, approximately 70 crias born each year). As one…
CCNF Dominion Grows Into His Name
So what do you name a little tank of a brown cria out of a legendary maternal line, that was born looking like he had a permanent scowl on, the equivalent of a massive case of alpaca-RBF? As it turned out, the son of Delilah and Matrix Majesty was anointed CCNF Dominion, not necessarily because…
Holding Pattern
So, are we all having fun yet? Back in the late winter as we watched the annual Futurity show in Kansas City get justifiably cancelled due to the pandemic, I’m not sure that we had any real notion that we’d still be staring into that same proverbial gun barrel come the fall of 2020. Naivete,…