Teamwork

There are so many occasions where you see breeders working together for the simple goal of keeping their industry moving forward, Koi shows are one example, shipment nights are another.

Tonight I went along to the latest Ornafish shipment, just under 600 boxes of Koi bound for Amsterdam and Frankfurt.

As soon as any breeder arrives their truck is promptly unloaded before they go and park and await the next truck to arrive, no one just drops off their Koi and disappears.

Once all the boxes have been duly labelled by the shipping company it's all hands on deck to get them stacked on the back of the trucks that will take them to Narita Airport.

Something like 60 boxes originated from from Marusei Koi Farm, 4 of which were somewhat larger than normal sized boxes as you can see below.  The largest contained a Mukashi Ogon of 98cm or so, and the box weighed the best part of 100kg!

Each breeder has to submit sample Koi which are also shipped to Holland for KHV testing.