I guess the libidos of our Herdsires are pretty healthy when they can look at a group of grumpy, recalcitrant females on a 10 degree December day and still go charging into the pen as though it’s the greatest thing in the world. Oh, to be a male alpaca. ”Cold, what cold? I’ve got crias…
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)….
Simply tasty. Also the only female of ours (and to our knowledge the first anywhere) being offered bred to this year’s white Futurity Champion… Star Saphire combines the super powerful genetics of Snowmass Royal Rose (himself sired by Hemingway) with that of our multi-Champion female, CCNF Starstruck who is in turn the daughter of…
CCNF Amoror is the next in line in of our auction animals at the upcoming NEAA and we are obviously very proud of any Herdsire that we would place in the much vaunted #7 spot in the sale order! As his catalog description alludes to, one of the major reasons we are able to let…
Just a small addendum to the geriatric article posted earlier today: PPeruvian Senora was just ultrasounded pregnant this morning at what one would estimate (ARI does not list a DoB, funnily enough) is approximately 18 years of age given that her first registered cria was born in 1995. For trivia’s sake the current breeding is…
This is the story, seen from Cas-Cad-Nac’s perspective, of how a superlative young Herdsire came to join our ranks. For the other side of the same story, one that is admittedly missing the elements of darkness and loss, check out Scott Young’s excellent narrative here. When we lost our beloved and iconic Herdsire, SuperNova, this…
