\\\ Welcome to Braveheart Farms: "2007 NGSCP Grandslam Champion for Boers"

Immediately named BHF Shaquille (after NBA big boy Shaquille O'Neal, who else?), he weighed 6 kilos at birth, 7 kilos after 3 days and 15 kilos after one month for an amazing daily weight gain average of 300 grams.

We gave Shaquille no special diet just the regular daily ration of goat kids' feeds which we acquired from the Mt. Carmel Baptist Rural Life Center at Kinuskusan, Bansalan and forage. We also allowed him to stay with his mother until he was four months old.

He was given a regular dose of Vitamin A, D and E and dewormed twice.

On November 20, two days before he would turn four months old and weaned finally, BHF Shaquille tipped the scales at 34 kilos for an average daily weight gain of 233 grams.

Now that he will be weaned and left to fend for his himself, we will continue to monitor his weight gain on a monthly basis and determine whether a genetically outstanding Boer goat would still gain tremendous weight even in the hands of the ordinary goat farmer who is expected to just rely heavily on forage for his goat's nutrition.

Shaquille, though, is not the only Rocky offspring showing tremendous weight gain and outstanding muscling. His half brothers who came as twins weighed between 4.5 to 5.5 kilos at birth and are showing good muscling.

Four months ago, July 22 to be exact, Braveheart Farms had its biggest surprise, literally, when a local born Boer doe, BHF Survive, who was mated to NGSCP National Champion Boer Buck 70 Rocky, gave us the biggest buck kid thus far in the four year operation of the farm.