I know we said we were done harvesting Tosai until after the Main Event this weekend..but with the nice weather we had to go in for these show so you all could get a sneak peak at them this weekend!
The show were harvested on avarage 8-10″”
Here are some of the showa that came out of the ponds..but come on down this weekend and see them all!
The Kikokuryu are the last tosai to be updated.
We used a Male Kujaku – due to having 3 colors – in the breeding, with hopes he would throw gold onto the babies from our female Kikokuryu. We placed a long fin male in the mix as well, with hope of long fin Kikokuryu.
Males:
Tosai Harvested – Kin Kikokuryu
This ends our tosai harvest for now. We will be putting our full attention over the next week to getting the greenhouses and farm ready to receive the koi that will be harvested at our Main Event Harvest – Oct 1-4th.
After all the Main Event koi are safely in we will return to harvesting the tosai.
ALOT is happening here at the farm this fall, so keep WATCHING!
Things here on the farm over the past few weeks have been busy with tosai harvest, traveling to koi shows and getting the farm ready for the main event harvest.
Lets get caught back up with the tosai that have been harvested!
Next that came out are the tosai from the Gin Rin Showa spawning. These tosai were harvested at 6-8 inches.
Below the koi are photographed in groups.
The first group is Gin Rin Showa. A male Gin Rin Showa was used with a female Gin Rin Showa to simply achieve Gin Rin Showa. A male Showa was also used to pass on his high quality sumi.
Here is the Male Showa and Gin Rin Showa again:
Picture of the tosai at harvest. This is a group of Gin Rin Showa/Showa Mix
The next group of tosai came from using a Male Matsuba butterfly.
In this group is a mix of Gin Rin Kin Ki Utsuri, Kin Showa, Kin Ki Utsuri, Gin Rin Shiro Utsuri
The QKC Guys were in bright and early this morning packing up the koi and heading out the the ZNA Potomac Show
I’m not going to ruin the suprise of what koi are coming, so make sure you stop over to booth and check them out!
Best of LUCK to all the NISEI KOI in the show!!!!!
Koi being caught for the show as the sun is rising
IF you can make it to the show, you can follow the show at www.koi-bito.com
We here at Quality Koi, look forward all year to the harvest season and try to enjoy every minute of it!
Here’s Mat watching the koi as they are pulled in.
New hands, Chuck and James, getting some practice before the Big Event in October!
For those who know our Lab Cadbury, no suprise that she gets the first look at the koi! Does she approve???
Mat spends some time with Hannah while he culls thru the Kohaku – never to early to learn
Below are a few pictures of the Sanke from when they were first culled at 2inches on July 13th and harvested on Sept 1st at 8-10 inches
Sanke #1 July 13 2inches, Sept 1st 10 inches
Sanke #2 July 13th 2 inches, Sept 1st 8.5 inches
The 2010 Sanke have been harvested.
With previously being strickly culled, the koi were harvested at 8-10″
Harvest time is finally here at the Nisei Koi Farm. Many are looking foward to your Main Event Harvest in October, but it takes us many weeks to bring all the koi we have growing in the mud ponds into the greenhouses.
We started harvest with our 2010 Kohaku
The koi have been harvested at 4-7 inches
We found this spawn to be sucessful. Not only did we get a number of koi of high quality, this was the first use of the Female Parent. The use of this female is the start of the new kohaku line. This spawn did produce young with the characteristics we were hoping for. These koi will be set aside as future parents for the next generation of this kohaku line.
