In a perfect koi world we would spend all our time with the fish, but other jobs need to be done to keep the farm running.
Dan is going thru some reclaimed wood that was sent to the farm. The good wood will be used for future structures here on the farm. Wasp have nested in the wood, so Dan had to suit up to do the job!
Chuck has been busy clearing and grading another spot on the farm. Ummm…what is Mat thinking of putting there????
For a short period in the season there is a week or so when there is no culling to be done. We use this time to get caught up with farming jobs that have had to be set aside during breeding and culling time.
Over the past few years we have had pest on the farm that have caused major damage to our mud ponds. This has caused many mud ponds to be come unusable.
In order to fix the mud ponds wire mesh will need to be placed on the sides of the berms and new clay will be used to reform the ponds.
Most of this work will be done once harvest is completed, but due to wet weather over the fall and winter monthes, we have decided to use this dry weather for mining the clay need to reform the ponds and stock pile it until fall.
To do this HUGE job in a very short time, we had to bring in the BIG Machines.
1 excuvator and 2 dump trucks are needed for the job.
Untouched ground in the back of the farm was the site to mine for clay
2 of our damaged Tosai ponds have been opened up and are being used to store the clay until we are ready to use it.
The guys will work thru the weekend to complete this job and back to koi farming on Monday!
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The breeding of our Kikokuryu was on Jun 22nd.
We used to males to breed with her. One a Doitsu Kujaku and the other a Yamabuki Butterfly to add more variety into our butterfly line.
The first cull of the spawn was done Aug 4th. Here a few shots of some babies.
On June 22nd our Gin Rin Showas were breed.
We used a Female Gin Rin Showa bred by the Nisei Koi Farm in 2005
Female Gin Rin Showa
And we used 3 males
The first male was bred by Toshio Sakai of the Matsunosuke blood line. We recieved them in 2008 ship of tosai for us to growout and find future parents from.
The second male used is our #1 Male Magoi Showa, supplied by Toshio Sakai. This koi has “New Sumi” and was used in this breeding to improve the sumi quality with in our Gin Rin Showa
The third of the the males used in this spawning was a Long Fin Kin Matsuba. We introduced him into the spawn to make long fin Gin Rin Kin Showa, along with other varieties.
Outlook from this breeding is to produce large (with the infuence of Magoi) high quality Gin Rin Showa
The first cull was on July 27th 2010
