| even quite recently omosako, probably the greatest shiro breeder was using a shiro/showa as a parent, while such practices can produce great koi it can also lead to such problems, i wish breeders would not do this type of thing so often,
i mean how many of us have purchased expensive koi only to see them become near worthless buy gaining or loosing Hi? im sory to say but to a large degree the breeders themselfs produced them this way...
1. omosako...using a showa/shiro as parent.
2. sakai hiroshima, using a male ginrin shiro muji as parent for kohaku.
3. sakai isawa using a becko(sanke that lost its hi) as parent for sanke.
4. momotaro using sanke as kohaku parents.
i think in most cases though not all it leads to more problems down the line, i would also be interested to know how sakai isawa managed to produce many sanke with a weak ginrin, did he use a ginrin parent in his std sanke blood at some stage?
yes i do understand that in some cases the variety is improved and this practice can be justified, but not all cases and i have serious doubts about some of the above.
kb |