Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
How can you tell when your females are open and ready for breeding?
When there are 6 of them cushed right up against another breeding! This shot was taken yesterday @5PM at the CCNF Arena. Unfortunately for Precocious (the lucky Herdsire in this particular instance) only one of the others is slated for him in the coming days. I’m sure it’s an ego boost just the same though…
Truth in Imagery…
So the fact of the matter is that the image that we used across the front page for the entire life of our newsletter (and now here across the top of this blog) hasn’t been representational of the farm’s actual appearance for over 11 years now. As you can see in the new photo on…
…and then the women do all the work!
Jen Lutz and CCNF Herd Manager Kim McAllister do an early ultra sound to find out if the boys are actually worth as much as we all claim! In this particular case it turned out the male in question was nothing but fluffed-up, over-hyped hot air.
First the boys play…
That’s good friend Pat Badger of Alpaca Grove and Extreme fame this morning @10AM “supervising” a drive-by breeding of his female with Royal Ring of Fire (whom he co owns with us). The attempted making of Space Cowboy 2.0 went off with out a hitch…
The Running of the ‘Pacas
I’m still learning how this whole blog thing works but if you click on the link at the bottom of this post you can see a cool Quicktime video of Jen and Kimberly herding a large group of our females up the hillside to the Arena for herd health day. Admittedly this was from June…