Genetic Improvement! Upgrading Native Meat Goats To Supply Huge Market Need

The meat of the Philippine Native Goats, based on my standards, is the best chevon a goat meat eater could find, better than Boer or any other breed.
Slaughtered young, it does not have the strong smell which marks the meat of other goat breeds, especially the dairy breeds like Anglo Nubian.
(The strong smell is called “Anghit” or “Anggo” and it turns off some meat eaters.)
The problem with the Philippine Native Goats, however, is the lack of common genetic traits which would make each line or family distinct.
Basically, the local goats are mongrels which results in inconsistency in meat quality, body size, growth rate and others.
This year, however, I will initiate a Native Goats Genetic Improvement Program which would involve infusing a bloodline of meat goats with the same meat quality as the local goats but bigger in size.
This would involve establishing a Nucleus Farm where about 500 local does will be bred with a superior (in size and heft) bucks from another meat goat breed.
I will attempt to set at least five families of Upgraded Native Goats through this program, all of which will be properly marked using tattoos or microchips and entered in a Genetic Database to easily track down the families later on.
This program aims to establish families of Native Goats with distinctive phenotypes like Black, Red, White or Roan pelts and body conformation.
This would elevate the status of the native goats from a Mongrel to a pedigreed breed which would make it easy for our farmers later on to choose which family of local goats they would breed.
Soon, we will have distinct breeds of our native “Kambing” which would be differentiated by the color of their coats or the body conformation.
Of course, this program would not have been possible without the help of Outstanding OFW Arnel Corpuz who taught me the Silage-Making technique using stalks from harvested Sorghum.
With the expansion of the Sorghum Program, local farmers could now raise goats in confined areas feeding them with Silage.
The sufficient supply of Sorghum Silage and improved native Goat breed would greatly help our farmers earn more from goat raising which in turn would contribute to our National Food Security Program.

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