The Boer Goat bug has bitten the moneyed goat fanciers of the Boom City of General Santos, dubbed as the Tuna Capital of the Philippine, and they are lining up to acquire some of the best Boer Goats from the Braveheart Farms.

Last Wednesday (Aug. 22), Rawhide Stevie, an imported Boer doe which was bred out of Ennobled Der Bo Hunk and Dream Quest Dena, was acquired by businessman  Boy Oncada for  P120,000.

And that's a steal! Stevie, born April 24, 2006, does not only carry the ennobled lines of RYALS TOPBRASS, JRA1 AGNEW'S BO HOWDY and DER BO HUNK from her father side and ennobled TEHACHAPI'S GUN'A SMOKE UM and GVB SARABI from her mother side, she was also two months pregnant by 2007 NGSCP National Champion Boer  Buck 70  Rocky.

Over the last few months, at least four rich goat breeders from General Santos City have acquired Boer Goats from the Braveheart Farms at prices that no ordinary goat raiser would even think of paying.

First to acquire a breeding buck were brothers Boboy and Gary Damalerio, who belong to a family that owns a fleet of fishing boats with interests not only in General Santos City but also in Indonesia. The brothers first acquired an imported  white Boer, BHF White Thunder, which I got from California two years ago for a whooping P90,000.

The brothers also acquired to imported does for P60,000 each. Together, they have started their own respectable Boer farm using the breeding materials acquired from Braveheart Farms.

Not to be outdone, a young businessman, Marvin Tupas whose family is also into fishing, literally begged me to sell him Tehachapi Seguaro, a show winner in California who was nearing ennoblement when I acquired him from Bob and Vickie Geddes of Tehachapi Mountain Boer Farms last year.

Tehachapi Seguaro went to Marvin for P140,000 and is now the herdsire of a growing Boer farm owned by the young businessman in General Santos.

Then came businessman Bobet Espanola, also a 4x4 enthusiast, who acquired the young buck Rawhide Denali for P110,000.

Both Seguaro and Denali come from a long line of ennobled goats in the US who were acquired by the Braveheart Farms for its Boer breeding program. They were not supposed to be sold but as they say: "If the price is right, why not?"

But there are goats in the farm which are not really for sale. A respected Davao City goat raiser offered P60,000 for Rocky Junior, a six-month-old buck, out of 70 Rocky and WOR Lorena, a Texas doe, following  the  Davao City  Show but the offer was respectfully turned down. The reason? Rocky Junior carries the body conformation of his father and he is expected to carry on the breeding program for the Rocky line.

Not all Boer Goats from the Braveheart Farms are as expensive as the ones we have sold. A regular buckling between 4 to 5 months old could go for P30,000 and these are all offsprings of 70 Rocky.

Some could even go for FREE. That is if you happen to be the Mayor Rody Duterte of Davao City who received  a young buck out of 70  Rocky and a young doe out of  Tehachapi  Seguaro.  The  buck  was  named  BHF  Rody  and the  doeling BHF Elizabeth  after  the Mayor and his wife.

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