Trip to this Koifarm picks up Ruud gladly
Just because we can, just a weekend with Maurice, from Izumo and 14 others to visit Jos, Ernst and Merv’s farm. Always entertaining!
As usual, we will go by car, actually by van, as we will have the time schedule completely to ourselves. Thursday evening from 8pm most arrived in Rotterdam, on the way we picked up two more Koigekken and drove to the Farm with several stops in between. As planned, we arrive around breakfast time and then immediately fall head over heels. We will capture one of the brand new silo-like ponds placed. Robbert and later Klaas are allowed into the water and all the Koi, it turns out there are over 400, have to be sexted.
One by one, all Koi are caught, inspected, sexed and sorted. Soon a little train is formed towards the truck on which there are two containers of water. On the left come the females, on the right come the males and NO that has any other political reason. Jos sexts and sorts the Koi and my fellow travellers watch, follow his explanations and help catch and move the Koi. Using the Kois socks, the fish enter the tanks. On top are Marcel and Maurice. They count and make sure the Koi go into the right tanks.
After this, they go into the mudpond waiting for even better times/further development and still later probably a new owner. By the way, I would like to emphasise once again that Yoshikigoi Farm is the only farm in the world that can prove through certificates and veterinary certificates that it is completely KHV and SVC free. Of course, this does not mean that you can place a new acquisition of Yoshikigoi into the pond rücksichtslos without a quarantine procedure, but it does mean that at least you do not have to worry about these diseases.
The first day at the farm flies by, at the table I see tired contented “heads” around me enjoying delicious schnitzels, beers, soft drinks and later in the evening, fine single malts. It was a beautiful day! I say another one like that tomorrow!
Text and photos: Ruud Besems
With thanks to Maurice Kempers of Izumo and Jos Aben of Yoshikigoi Koi Farm
