Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A Day of Thanks…
The extended Lutz clan is gathering at the farm today (and for the entire Thanksgiving weekend) from Cambridge and NYC. Best of all is the chance for the four cousins (ages 9 to almost 13), who truly adore one another, to hang together for several days without the pressures of their normal daily schedules. For…
Shared Custody Agreement
So there we were back in August eagerly awaiting the due date of arguably the most valuable colored female on our farm, Reality (SHRA Virtual’s Reality if you seek her out on ARI). How important was/is she to us and our big picture? We already have two of her daughters holding court in our foundation…
The Final Cria of 2010!
The off season more or less officially arrived on Tuesday. All good, all done, that’s all she wrote! Juliet (one of our lesser known but no less valued) Legacy Gold daughters gave birth to a spunky, beige SuperNova boy. For those keeping score at home that was cria #55 born here this year. Personally I…
The Boys Are on Mop-up Detail…
In the continuing quest to bring sanity to the 2011 birthing season Mssrs Precocious and Elite Legend will be very busy boys over the next week or so. By my calculations there are 8 females left to be bred of our own (5 or 6 of which are ready now being already 21+ days post-partum)….
Observations on the Geriatric Female Alpaca, Part 2: Bumps, Blindness, and Sore Joints
In the first part of this series we tackled nutritional and reproductive management of older females. Here, as promised, I’m going to talk a little more about some other things that we’ve observed in the older female members of our herd, specifically as it relates to one particular dermatological issue, some conformational problems coming home…
OKC 2010: Some New Friends, Some Old Friends, and a Whole Mess of Empty Seats.
The Lutz family’s arrival back home at CCNF from the 2010 National Elite was staggered, just like our departure. Though by Monday night all were present and accounted for, at least physically anyway. Though we did sell some of our alpacas at the auction on Saturday and in the process made several new happy clients…