hi koifishgirl ,how old are they,i just had a spawn this morning.i cant wait.also i seen your other post,about red clay in ga i have a house down there in swainsboro,i have 9acres of fields with one pond that used to be a pig wallow,it holds water great,have fun with your fry.jeff in ny
7 or 8 week old, and I dont know a thing about culling and trying to learn Thing is, I really dont want to get rid of any of them, but I know I got to, I just dont want to do this by myself Im sure I will throw out some good ones without some help. The parent are Female Gin Matsuba, Female Yamato-nishiki, pic next to my username, she is alot bigger now, and two male Aka bekko's. Judy
Nice going Mum I've never done culling before, but from what I have read you look for deformalities from mouth to tails
Here is a link http://australiankoiassoc.bizland.com/Culling.chtml This is a local akoi Club in sydney. I wish I could be there and join the fun. It would be a great experience
rgds, Jon
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Hi koifishgirl, I'll be watching your post with interest as I'm preparing to do the same. I thought I knew which ones had to go a few weeks ago, but many of the previous "cull picks" have begun to develop interesting color patterns so?
If only you two were in the north of England, I'd love to have some assorted koi :( ------------------------------------ http://www.lawrencesystems.net ------------------------------------ Pond: 2.5mtr x 2.5mtr x 0.65mtr (1500 gallons approx) ------------------------------------ 1x Hikarimono Gin Matsuba / 1x Yamabuki Ogon / 2x Kohaku / 4x Ghost Carp / 1x Mirror Carp / 2x Green Tench / 6x Golden Orfe / 2x Blue Orfe / 5x Sarasa Comets / 2x Goldfish
I agreed with Koi38, put your babies into a glass bow and cull out all the deformities and if you have enought room why not leave them for another few months. If you do not have room then my kois bubies overhere can do with some of the Yamabuki babies koi from you. So Kool to have babies koi from your own stock.
But then i known what you going to say. They not "made in Japan" in Aust we do not have this luxury so Boo.. to me.
All the same type??? I don't think anyone ever gets that lucky. Your babies look an awful lot like mine and it is hard to choose. I checked out the website Jon gave and it has some pretty good culling tips. If it was me (and it isn't) I would look only for deformities this time around for culling and give the rest time to develop their colors better. I know that some of the fish I would have culled a few weeks ago have become keepers. Several have gone from plain grey to ginrin mettalic with nice sumi stripes. Too soon to tell if they will be Utsurimono or Hikarimoyo, but they are soooooooo young.
Thanks for the website. Good info there indeed. There was one thing that made me laugh though. When the writer said he made a floating frame net to put the babies in as they were netted I had to smile. We netted our babies yesterday morning and not only were they jumpiing over the nets and the 1' high screen we used to corral them with, several jumped all the way out of the pond and landed on the rocks! I'll probably never have any champion show koi, but I'm thinking about entering a few in the olympics.
I too found that amusing It doesn't really matter if we don't have a champion koi coz for us they are champion already
rgds, Jon
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Thing is, I really dont want to get rid of any of them, but I know I got to, I just dont want to do this by myself
Im sure I will throw out some good ones without some help. The parent are Female Gin Matsuba, Female Yamato-nishiki, pic next to my username, she is alot bigger now, and two male Aka bekko's. 
I've never done culling before, but from what I have read you look for deformalities from mouth to tails
. It would be a great experience
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in Aust we do not have this luxury so Boo.. to me
. Good info there indeed. There was one thing that made me laugh though. When the writer said he made a floating frame net to put the babies in as they were netted I had to smile