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re: Anyone here own a crawfish farm?
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:40 am to texag7
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:40 am to texag7
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Would you recommend I do the same? Would fishing it the first year hurt the population
Absolutely. Not every crawfish you stock in the pond is going to live or stay in the pond. Some will leave because they are feeling adventurous, Birds will get hungry and start snacking on them, etc. You need to establish a good population before fishing them. It wouldn hurt to stock them every few years to keep them plentiful.
Posted on 4/3/19 at 6:23 am to saintsfan1977
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.
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