Welcome toThe Heart Of Gold Farm in Versailles , Ky - - Connie Cramer and are Kentucky natives and our lovely farm is in the heart of the Bluegrass region. We raise high quality Registered South African Boers 100% FULL BLOOD SA WITH CODI/PCI IN THEIR PEDIGREE'S
SEEDED FROM KAPTEIN AND CLOUD DANCING
for are farm's breeding stock improvement programs.
Have a clean and closed herd all shots are up today..... med's given yearly on CD-T's, BO-SE and Warming and (feet trimed every 2-Months).
Our bloodlines are among the best in the country. If you are looking to improve your herd, diversify your bloodlines or are just starting out and want high-quality at a fair price, we're sure to have just the goats for you!
Take a look at our website - it is updated frequently. Contact us if you have any questions or if you'd like to make an appointment to come and look at some of our goats. All goats are sold on a first come, first served basis and we do not reserve any goats without a deposit.
Gabriel and Bandit are probably the hardest workers on the farm - that's why they got top billing on our homepage. They were raised with goats from birth and work hard 365 days a year protecting our goats and Ducks .
The History of CODI-PCI
Back in the early 90's an exotic animal importer called Jurgan Shultz had a vision to bring some of the finest goats in South Africa to the USA. To enable this dream he got together with 4 wealthy backers, and spent 6 months and 22,000 miles finding 400 of the VERY BEST quality goats available, and many that were not available, he got anyway. 400 is not a lot by SA standards, and could be done in an afternoon, if you were not looking for the very best, but the fact that it took 6 months, tells anyone Jurgan was VERY picky what he bought. The animals were corralled at the Jordaans, and were tagged with a YELLOW TRIANGLE tag that said CODI/PCI, the CODI means CAMELIDS OF DELAWARE INC this is Jurgans import company name, the PCI means PET CENTER INTERNATIONAL which is in Ca, & which I assume did the paperwork. The animals were also tattooed in the flank for safety. The original live imports carry an import # TX630/***, the animals that were born in quarantine carry the #TX631/***, Jurgan Shultz registered as a SA breeder ( I assume as a formality) the herd prefix 994, and the animals will also have this plus there # on the registration papers EI:...994/***. The animals survived horrible conditions in the hot humid quarantine pens, some died and some were born and some got bred, this vast herd then moved to Jurgans Ranch in Lampases TX, were they lived, and were raised, then in 1996 Jurgan decided to disperse this great herd, and people were eager to get them, as what had been imported thus far from SA, was far less quality than these so now called CODI goats. There may only be a handful of those originals now alive, and they are around 10-12 years old, and the first born are about 8 &9 years old, but what an impact they have made on the Boer Goat Industry, they are exceptional producing animals, many of our most famous winners are born from CODI foundation goats, PIPELINE'S mother was a CODI, and of course KAPTEIN, FRANCES was a CODI, LYLE'S mother was a CODI, BULLDOG'S mother was a CODI, RENIOR was a CODI, all national or reserve Champions, 2001 Jr National Champion was out of a Codi bred doe, some of Ryals most well known bucks have a CODI foundation/ POWELL/HOLMANS great doe BIG MAMA was a CODI, the list is endless....................not any others can say this. Jurgan Shultz realized his vision and brought the best of SA to the USA, and started this Boer Goat revolution, just one man with a dream, to bring us the best, and I for one am very glad he did, the animals are tremendous to lay a great foundation to any breeding program. It is very important that these CODI numbers are preserved on the registration papers, and I urge everyone with CODI animals to make sure they are not omitted, which is what the ABGA is tending to do, it will be very hard to recognize CODI bloodline animals without these numbers on the papers, just an ABGA number means absolutely nothing to a CODI breeder, we want that 994 number on the papers too know were that animal was bred from, so we can preserve this GREAT foundation blood for the future.
