re: Anyone here own a crawfish farm?

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.