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HOW DOES ONE PREPARE FOR RETIREMENT?
November 16, 2007
Many people look at retirement from work as a time to rest, others to vacation and enjoy life, and some to pursue endeavours that they wanted to undertake but did not have time to do it because of work.
For Police General Leopoldo "Pol" Bataoil, now regional director of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Region 1, retirement means being able to do what he had long wanted to get his hands on -- farming.
A member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1976 and former spokesman of the PNP, Pol is planning ahead to ensure that he will really enjoy his retirement.
With a few years left in his career as a police officer, Pol is now starting to establish his own goat farm in his native La Union acquiring breeding stocks of Boer goats from the Braveheart Farms of Vice Gov. Manny Pinol of Kidapawan City.
Pol started communicating with me a few months back through a common friend working with the Dept. of Agriculture. He started inquiring about Boer goats.
Some of the boer does acquired by Gen. Bataoil from Braveheart Farms.
A few weeks later, he decided to acquire 20 young does and 2 bucks to start his own Boer farm.
Realizing how important good breeding stocks are somebody who is starting a goat farm, I decided to send to Pol nine imported does which I acquired from Rebecca Cogswell of Bakersfield, California including three which I bred out of Rawhide Denali which came from Kim Doughterty of Palmdale, California.
A beautiful doe bred out of Rawhide Denali and a 3r Ranch doe now in Marcela's Boer Farm in Agoo, La Union.
The remaining eight does will also come from California while the young bucks will come straight from the Outback Boer Ranch of Dale Page in Texas which are expected to arrive with my shipment of 100 BoerxSpanish does by the end of November.
The two young bucks are both registered bucks bred out of the famous War Paint line that is being perpetuated by the Outback Boer ranch in Texas and are expected to produce well-muscled goats.
With very outstanding breeding materials, Pol's Marcela's Boer Farm is going to be a goat farm to reckon with within the next few years. I expect the farm to be able to produce quality Boers that could win in competitions in the Luzon area in the near future.
Luzon Boer breeders, watch out for General Pol Bataoil and his Marcela's Boers.
The modest farm that Pol has started is located in Barangay Nazareno, Agoo, La Union, the birthplace of his late mother, Marcela, and he has named the farm "Marcela's."
I fully understand how much joy Pol will be getting from this endeavour and so I am extending to him the help that he needs to start things right.
The does are given a bath preparatory to their shipment to La Union.
Retirement from work or a profession is something that many people look forward to.