Interested in Crawfish raising, but need more info.

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I am interested in raising crawfish, and would like to know if anybody has done this before. I think I could raise a few of them in a 55 gallon drum with rice growing in it, but need someone else's oppinion. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Russell

-- Russell Moses (mosesrussell@hotmail.com), July 29, 2001

Answers

What are you raising them for(just out of curiosity)?i know it would have to have a place where they could climb up and breath at. we have raise a few in our old horse trough for the fun of it. we get them and the creek. they make it if there is quiet a lot of algee on the sides then they can climb up and breath. that worked till we got gold fish to get rid of the algee. the fish ate all the alge and after they passed 8 inches they ate the crawdad's. this is off the subject but i though i'd add it. it works really well to raise gold fish and minnows in horse water trough's. they get plenty of room and eat a lot of algee. you still have to clean it about every month. in the winter we and fall we don't clean it out. it gets a small layer of leaves and other interesting stuff at the bottom and the fish wiggle into it and over winter. the horse trough has evern been known to get a 5 in. plus layer of ice over over it before we get out to plug in the heater. we never started feeding the fish till this year and they are now growing a lot.

-- lindsey in southern IL (l_shamhart@hotmail.com), July 29, 2001.

Russel, go to your search engine and type in ATTRA, its a free service from the USDA and they have a lot of info on everything about farming.

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), July 29, 2001.

Russell, aquanic.org/ is a great site for aquaculture information. Go to the species choice on the left and look under crawfish. Good luck!

-- cowgirlone (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), July 29, 2001.

Someone asked why raise crayfish--well, Sweden has a yearly Crayfish festival in August and people eat tons of them. They buy crayfish from Turkey and, I believe, the States. So there's your market:o) They are very expensive over there!

-- Elizabeth in E TX (kimprice@peoplescom.net), July 30, 2001.

Everything you ever wanted to know about growing crawfish, the Crawfish Production Manual:

http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/Communications/pdfs_bak/crawfishmanual.pdf

Actually, out of a 55 gallon drum I don't think you'll be able to raise enough mud bugs to make it worth your while. On the other hand, if you do manage to raise enough for a boil, gimme a call for a free in-person demonstration of how to eat them.

-- Steve - TX (steve.beckman@compaq.com), July 30, 2001.



Get on the S&S Aqua Farms mailing list. There has been a lot of discussion about raising redclaws on that list. e-mail snsaquasys@townsqr.com

S&S Aqua Farm

-- Sojourner (notime4@summer.spam), July 30, 2001.


We use them for bait here...for catching bass. used some on Sat. My brother has raised them several times....he has a real problem with his dog..black lab....wiping them out. He uses a plastic kiddie pool with rocks in the middle of it...so they can climb up but not out...and has had pretty good luck. He dosn't have any plants growing..I am not sure what he feeds them. We go out to the creek at the state beach campground not far from here and catch them with nets (under cover of darkness of course) for bait. Big ones to eat we have caught using a string with bacon tied on the end.We use them more for bait, since the creek they are in is a little "questionable". Good luck!!!

-- Jenny Pipes (Auntjenny6@aol.com), July 30, 2001.

One time when I was a kid, my uncle and I went to this persons property that my uncle knew and he let us sain one of his ponds that he raised crawdads in. These crawdads were great fish bait because their shells never got hard (only their pinchers). Later we sained some more to try to get a start in my uncles pond, but they never did multiply. Later we found out that you can't have fish in the same ponds cause they will eat them all due to them being so soft. I'm not sure what kind of crawdads they were, or where the man came up with them since they were different than the ones that we catch in the creek by our house.

-- Russell Hays (rhays@sstelco.com), July 30, 2001.

A town near me, Islton has a yearly crawdad festival. Personaly I dont care for the taste.

-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), July 31, 2001.

crawfish etouffe. Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.

-- Sojourner (notime4@summer.spam), July 31, 2001.


i have tried the info sites listed here, but havent been able to get anywhere... does anyone know any "home" way of raising crawfish? thanks kathy

-- kathy p. (katiegirl176@hotmail.com), August 01, 2001.

In Porta Rico crawfish or fresh water shrimp are put in a floating cage and put in lakes or ponds to raise themselves.

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), August 04, 2001.

Hello, I am a student attending the University of Wyoming. I am doing some research on crawfish and was wondering if you found any information on how to raise crawfish and the enviroment that they need to surive in. The information I am looking for is the water quality tolerance (good to poor), preferred temperature and the adaptability to a closed system. Thank you for your help. Robin

-- Robin W (Pobs1979@aol.com), November 26, 2001.

American Small Farm magazine does an issue re: aquaculture each year. I believe they addressed this in a past issue. Check out their back issues.

-- Anne (HealthyTouch101@wildmail.com), November 27, 2001.

Try http://aquanic.org they have great crawdad info. Good Luck!

-- cowgirlone (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), November 27, 2001.


Hey, i have eaten a crawfish before! Me and my dad was in Mississippi and it was marti gra and this guy made cajun crawfish and i only ate one. i remember it was really hard to get the meat out and the guy who made them sucked the juice out of the head. i thought that was gross! but my dad liked them.

-- teejae (zachdawg@webtv.net), November 27, 2001.

I also am interested in raising crawfish. Need to do it in the North East and need to raise about 15 hundred a week to feed a large population of largemouth bass. Does anyone know if this would be possible on such a large scale?

Thanks, Patrick

-- Patrick Foss (pfoss@epnet.com), January 06, 2002.


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