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re: Anyone here own a crawfish farm?
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:12 am to lsuson
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:12 am to lsuson
I have 2 duck ponds i crawfish in as a "side gig"
Traps are about 8 dollars a piece and you need a couple hundred atleast to make it worth the effort.
My crawfish only hit catfish heads early on vs the crawfish bait. So baiting is a pain in the arse.
I walk all my traps vs use a boat.
When i drain the ponds for ducks, the white birds lay waste to mt crawfish.
Basically. It aint easy
Traps are about 8 dollars a piece and you need a couple hundred atleast to make it worth the effort.
My crawfish only hit catfish heads early on vs the crawfish bait. So baiting is a pain in the arse.
I walk all my traps vs use a boat.
When i drain the ponds for ducks, the white birds lay waste to mt crawfish.
Basically. It aint easy
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Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:15 am to sonoma8
quote:
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
Keep all the damn birds from eating your crawfish and the geese from eating their feed.
ETA saw that jb already addressed this
This post was edited on 4/3/19 at 11:08 am
Posted on 4/3/19 at 10:51 pm to jimjackandjose
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, the white birds lay waste to mt crawfish.
They do all ponds. Just like ducks go and shoot them. Eventually the rest will get the hint but if you allow them to they suck as much bugs as they can.
It's not easy raising crawfish but I promise it's worth the money. My cousin has a 25 acre pond that catches nothing but select crawfish. Lobsters. Beautiful red crawfish full of yellow fat and he gets $2 a lb year round. When everyone quits fishing because they get. 45 cents a lb he is still getting $2.oo a lb. You wont lose money since you already have the land equipment and time to make levees.
Posted on 4/5/19 at 3:05 pm to texag7
Did you review these specific crawfish publications on the LSU AgCenter website?
Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual
Cost and Returns Louisiana Crawfish Production, 2014
The economics publication is a bit out of date but still reasonably accurate. Apparently this the most current cost and returns budget the AgCenter has on crawfish farming.
The impact of birds eating stocked crawfish is over-rated if crawfish are stocked properly.
Adding hay to crawfish ponds after the ponds are flooded in the fall as a feed supplement is not effective - doesn't hurt but doesn't provide the intended benefits. To be effective the forage must be grown in the pond/field during the summer while crawfish are in burrows.
Probably 70% of 225,000 acres of crawfish farms in Louisiana use planted rice (some as stubble where the rice grain if harvested before the crawfish crop, other systems where rice is grown solely as forage for the crawfish and the grain is not harvested) as a crawfish forage but it is not necessary. The Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual has a chapter on Forages for crawfish and all the various options a potential producer can consider.
The Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual has entire chapter on stocking crawfish and things you need to consider to maximize survival and breeding efficacy of the stockers.
Of all the variable costs associated with farming crawfish, stocking is among the lowest cost, and it is usually only required once - more frequently if a pond failure occurs for any number of reasons. Planting forage, water pumping and management, baits/traps and harvesting labor are the "expensive" aspects of farming crawfish.
Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual
Cost and Returns Louisiana Crawfish Production, 2014
The economics publication is a bit out of date but still reasonably accurate. Apparently this the most current cost and returns budget the AgCenter has on crawfish farming.
The impact of birds eating stocked crawfish is over-rated if crawfish are stocked properly.
Adding hay to crawfish ponds after the ponds are flooded in the fall as a feed supplement is not effective - doesn't hurt but doesn't provide the intended benefits. To be effective the forage must be grown in the pond/field during the summer while crawfish are in burrows.
Probably 70% of 225,000 acres of crawfish farms in Louisiana use planted rice (some as stubble where the rice grain if harvested before the crawfish crop, other systems where rice is grown solely as forage for the crawfish and the grain is not harvested) as a crawfish forage but it is not necessary. The Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual has a chapter on Forages for crawfish and all the various options a potential producer can consider.
The Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual has entire chapter on stocking crawfish and things you need to consider to maximize survival and breeding efficacy of the stockers.
Of all the variable costs associated with farming crawfish, stocking is among the lowest cost, and it is usually only required once - more frequently if a pond failure occurs for any number of reasons. Planting forage, water pumping and management, baits/traps and harvesting labor are the "expensive" aspects of farming crawfish.
This post was edited on 4/5/19 at 8:58 pm
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