The Braveheart Farms of Kidapawan City, North Cotabato has acquired 100 additional Boer doelings from various goat breeders in Texas, a state known to be the livestock center of the United States of America.

The young doelings, the biggest importation ever made by the farm, will arrive in the Philippines in the first week of November and will boost Braveheart Farms efforts to produce more Boer breeding materials for local goat breeders.

The importation was made following the great demand for breeding materials for Boers at prices affordable to small breeders. Boer breeding materials currently at priced at P30,000 for newly weaned bucklings and doelings.

The 100 doelings will be the first of a series of importations of breeding materials by Braveheart Farms which intends to produce enough Boers for local breeders at a lower price.

Braveheart Farms intends to import at least 1,000 heads of Boer doelings over the next 12 months to fasttrack its breeding program and contribute to the national goat raising program now being supported by the Department of Agriculture and the Land Bank of the Philippines.

Vice Governor Manny Pinol, who owns Braveheart Farms, made the trip to Texas Oct. 9 and met with several breeders led by young Texas livestock man James Stinson.

Stinson assured Vice Governor Pinol that Texas Boer breeders will be willing and supply his farm with the boer doelings needed for the massive goat raising program being undertaken by the Braveheart Farms.

Braveheart Farms currently has over 200 fullblood Boers but Vice Governor says this number is not enough to satisfy the huge demand for Boer breeding materials.

With the importation of 1,000 additional doelings, Braveheart Farms will be capable of producing about 3,000 Boers and enable local breeders to acquire

outstanding breeding materials at lower price.

The first batch of young doelings will be hauled by a livestock truck from San Angelo, Texas to Los Angeles, California where they will be loaded on a Philippine Airlines flight to the Davao International Airport.