I'm gonna post and then go back and read what ya'll wrote...
Here is the world according to Luke:
you take the four best Japanese breeders and have them come over here and pick and choose out of Brady's and Brett's( and any two other "Show Koi" breeders here in the US) and then let them sembetsu and cull the millions of fish from brett's and barady's and Whomever else's Mud ponds where they raised up the fry.
Those fry would be pretty similar to the fish that the Japanese breeders would have picked out of their mud ponds two or three years ago ...maybe last year if the Japanese breeder is really good.
And if we let brady and brett loose on some of the better japanese Koi farms they'd probably come up with about what they raise here in the US...Maybe a little better.
Thing is when you buy a "BLOODLINE" actually you are buying a Body...a body of work. That fish is the art of the breeder....pairing's selection, care of the fry, feeding, sembetsu, culling...remembering what works, what didn't, what they want to risk to get better.
So there ya go...you aren't buying koi, a country, a bloodline, you are buying a piece of the breeder....now if you buy from a dealer then you are buying his appreciation of the breeders he deals with, or his insight into what makes a koi valuable....
That's why I talk more about breeders..
Thing is the japanese Cull deeper than the US breeder...I think Maurice is going to be a force to be reckoned with because he is breeding quite a few koi and will be limited to what he can keep. he's going to be forced to cull like the japanese. ( It might have been his plan, or understanding and therefore he feels comfortable with his facility...either way it should work....he'll have to watch himself, I know I would. I'm a silly American. I want to save everything to see what comes of it.)
SO another way of saying it is that the Americans are compassionate, caring individuals that value ever life........regardless
EDIT due to a misplaced comma that made a sentence difficult to understand. |