Anyone here own a crawfish farm?

I know guys who fish pond that essentially are hay fields. They bushhog them several times a year and then flood up for crawfish. Ours follow a rice harvest 90% of the time and the other 10% sometimes we even throw in “crawfish rice” purely for the crawfish crop.

I was thinking of doing only an acre or so as a test plot. But if it works well I could potentially flood upwards of 100 acres.

I have several tanks and creeks to use as a water source. I see the main work as building the levees and adding aeration devices to each pond.

Not meaning to hijack but whats dem flags mean in them big crawfish ponds. Passing thru mamou and they have big orange or yellow flags probably every 50yds apart

I’m reading you can stock each acre with 50-60 lbs. Is this correct?

Side gig, hell you could retire on the profit off the price gouging alone

Price dun gotern go up der chen

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I had a friend try that in college and the birds ate all his seed crawfish.

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Side gig, hell you could retire on the profit off the price gouging alone

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Something else you need to consider is your soil type. Is it suitable for flood irrigation?

If the ground won't hold water, you are wasting your time.

An ex girlfriend from colleges father was a rice farmer/crawfish farmer. He stocked his ponds with 1 sack per acre. Every pond he would harvest crawfish he made sure that pond wasn’t fished the year before. The food was always leftover rice stubble. He would usually have 5 ponds on average each season and would harvest about 12 sacks a day/6 days a week. Sunday was church and family day. The crawfish they harvested was amazing. About 60% if not more were #1 select the wholesalers payed top dollar for. Those shipped to high end restaurants. I can’t remember how long his guys ran them, but I think it was around 3 months. Put all his kids through college and vet school. I prefer the medium size ones personally. Oh the damn white egrets and commorants will test your patience. They think those ponds are a Chinese buffet. You also have to run the levees regularly due to minks running tunnels through them. Pain in the arse when a levee fails due to those bastards. Added bonus sometimes you have a duck hunting oasis. It’s feast or famine with ducks though.