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What is CODI/PCI? by Carol Rochester
Back in the early 90's a 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 Lampasas 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/HOLMAN'S
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.
Thanks to Carol Rochester of Circle R Boer Goats for this article
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