Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Kimberly McAllister is my herd health hero(ine)
So while we were running around last Friday afternoon trying to get all the stuff we together that we needed to take the kids up to Montreal for a weekend hockey game I got a text from our herd manager, Kim McAllister: herd health was done. Surely she meant done for the day? Nope, done…
A further tweak of the male sales list…
Not a whole lot going on on the farm today (alpacas eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing doesn’t count, sorry) other than snow removal from yesterday’s storm. So with the cleanup under control, and the farm’s vaccine order delayed by yesterday’s weather–thus postponing February herd health day until at least Monday–I finally got to add a…
Enough Already!
So this is quickly rounding into form as the snowiest winter of my adulthood. Though I’ve yet to add up the cumulative snowfall here, I would guess that after the 18 to 20 inches we got yesterday and today that we’ve got to be at 5’+ at this point for the year and February is…
Female sales list updated
So in addition to the already posted bred females which have been up for the better part of two weeks, there are now 8 members of the 2010 birth class that joined them as of today on our farm’s web site. The juveniles run the gamut of price and quality from relative entry-level breeding females…
Now smile and say cheese!
Taking good pictures of alpacas requires some patience and a sustained sense of humor. Particularly when the alpacas in question are weaners. We (the we that was Jen and Kim while Ian sat at his desk/on the couch with the infamous ice bag) had just weaned a trailer load of 15 little buggers on Friday. So…
Miscarriage Today
So the reality when one breeds 65+ females is that you get to see a bit of everything over time. This morning the barn cleaning crew found a 6 month fetus on the north side of the Arena that we were quickly able to figure out had come out of Golden Bell, one of our…