2011年7月アーカイブ

只今、一番選別の真っ最中です。　炎天下の中、初腹、本命腹と期待と不安の選別の日々が続いています。産卵こそ遅れましたが気温が高いお陰か成長が早く20日から25日位で選別が出来るので例年どうりの生産パターンに追いついて来ました。そしてこの日、たぶん珍しかろうと思われるオタマジャクシを発見しました。種類は食用ガエル（ウシガエル）。しかしながら只のオタマジャクシじゃありません。　何んと『丹頂オタマジャクシ』。色々なオタマジャクシを観ていますがおそらくこの『丹頂オタマジャクシ』はかなりレアかと・・・。とりあえず爬虫類、両生類の飼育エキスパートスタッフ『武藤』が育てる事になりました。丹頂カエルになったらまた報告します。

Now a days, we are doing first culling. Under the strong sunshine, we have culled children of first paring parents and main parents with excitement and anxiety. As I reported, spawning was taken place later than used to be, however, may be because of high temperature, we have been able to do first culling after 20 to 25days from spawning. Therefore, progress of breeding is almost same as usual. Today, I happened to find very rare tadpole. This is tadpole of American bullfrog but I think this is extraordinary because this is "Tancho tadpole"! I've seen many kinds of tadpole at mud pond but I have never seen "Tancho" one before. . . Our new staff, "Muto" will take care of these because he is expert of reptiles and amphibian. When it turn to be real "Tacho frog", I will let you know.

黒仔選別・・・それは黒い毛仔と黄色い毛仔をひたすら分ける作業。。。夜明けと同時に始め黙々とエアーチューブで吸い続ける。何んと言っても人工採卵明けの黒仔選別は根性と忍耐が必要。これが何日も続くと主食が栄養ドリンクになります。　　という事で今回は初腹　『パッツン』の黒仔選別です。　この親鯉、昨年の農業祭で県知事賞を頂きその質と体を後世に残したく今回の仔採りとなりました。更にオスには国魚賞経験のある『ヒグマ』を付け墨の強化を図ります。　どんな鯉が出来るのか・・・まずは第一関門の産卵クリアーです。　　※今回動画撮影の平沢・・・久しぶりのせいか、噛みまくり間違いまくってこの動画　TAKE 3　です。その為、手伝いの皆さんがずっとニヤニヤ笑っています。

Kuroko Selection. We just need to divide black fry and yellow fry. We start after sunrise and keep sucking black fry up. We have to have strong patient and gats at this selection specially soon after spawning because we can not sleep during spawning. When spawning and Kuroko selection occurs in same days and it lasts continuously, energy drink become our principal food. . . . Today, we had Kuroko selection from "Pattun" which is first time to use as parent koi. "Pattun" took Niigata Governor Award at Nogyo-sai last year because of superb quality and body confirmation. We decided to use this koi as parent because we want to keep this gene for next generation. As you can find from picture, this koi, "Pattun", doesn't have strong sumi. To enhance quality of Sumi, we use "Higuma" which was nominated at Kokugyo prize at All Japan Nishikigoi Show before. Let's see how it turns to be . . . Hopefully, spawning was successfull at this moment. * This movie was filmed by Hide Hirasawa. You can find that all of us grinned from his explanation because this is "Take 3". He was nervous because he hasn't filmed movie for wrong? He messed up his lines many times . . .