| Breeding and growth
Does breeding a female koi keep it from growing to full size. I have heard that it might. The logic is that energy used for growth is diverted into egg production. In reading Koi 2 Kichi, Waddy says you need to limit food intake to female koi in winter (cooler temps), since they can over-produce eggs because this is not the time their energy is normally spent for growth anyway. If that is the case then it would seem that breeding would not necessarily be robbing growth energy. Am I looking at this wrong, and is this urban legend that makes sense?
Mitch |