This weekend our family and I don't go on excursions, just at home. We plan to harvest fish in the earthen pond in our garden. Children are always excited when the fish harvest season arrives, fish harvest is one of the most awaited moments by our family.
I have two fish pond plots, with an area of 12 square meters and 14 square meters respectively. I filled one pond with catfish and another pond I filled with carp. Today I invite the children to harvest catfish that are 6 months old. this is a long time to keep catfish, because catfish are usually harvested at the age of 2-3 months. But because of our busy family, today we only had time to harvest catfish.
I filled a 12 square meter pond with 7,000 catfish. Catfish are a type of cannibal fish, if the pond is not densely filled with catfish, the catfish will move freely in the pond and have a large head and a small body, with a shape like that, so the flesh of the catfish is small.
First, we drained the pond with a machine, then moved the catfish to the holding pond. This holding pond is made of cement pools covered with tarpaulin plastic. The fish in the tarpaulin will be sold within 2-3 days.
The children were very happy to be able to catch fish by themselves, for them it was an extraordinary weekend, because not every time they could harvest catfish. I raise catfish, because children like to eat catfish, so that it is safer in terms of natural feeding, so I decided to raise catfish myself instead of buying fish in markets where cleanliness is not guaranteed. I save part of the fish harvest for consumption by our own family and the rest I sell for the children's school needs. I want to teach children to have skills in raising catfish.
Not only catfish, I also keep several koi fish. When I'm tired of my daily routine, seeing beautiful koi fish in the pond can relieve boredom. the koi pond was being cleaned, so I transferred the koi fish to a large bucket. Even though the koi fish that I have are not a special and expensive type, I like to care for them. There is happiness in watching these koi fish grow and develop every day.
This weekend was very enjoyable for us as a family, being able to catch fish with our own hands, earning money from a hobby and most importantly learning to respect nature, if we take good care of the fish, the fish will grow well too.
Thus the story of our weekend as a family, thank you for taking the time to read my post. The greatest happiness for our family is being able to get together on weekends and do activities together. Because one day, the children will have a life of their own, as long as we have time to hang out on the weekends, then we won't miss it. Happy weekend 🥰
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