Crawfish castle in my raised bed

[joz]

Even though I live in New Orleans, I don't much care for the mudbugs. We're just off crawfish boil season now, and I don't know how many boils I went to and said, "No, thanks... but I will eat the artichokes, garlic, sausage, pineapple, mushrooms, potatoes and corn y'all also threw in the berl." (The pineapple was the best.... spicy and sweet!) Crawfish are too much work, not enough reward, and your hands stink afterward. If it were shrimp or crab (dungeness, not blues... I did grow up on the West coast, after all) it would be worth the stink.

My parents had a crawdad (Pacific Northwest Vernacular) in a tank as a pet.

Apparently they eat snails and slugs (yay!) and worms (boo!) and vegetation (!).

 

[Schroeder]

heres a link showing some castles way to cool.... sorry that they are giving you problems
http://www.micsaund.com/2007/07/05/random-interesting-tidbit-crawdad-tunnels/

my best advice... a pot of boiling water with some old bay seasoning and butter pour it down the hole when they float to the top they are ready to eat

Very funny!

 

[Just-Moxie]

We have found those mud holes since we moved into this place back in 2010. Wasn't for sure what they were. The internet search said crawdads.

Well, this past spring, I walked out the side door to go feed chickens...and there sat a huge crawdad in the grass. He ended up chicken food. Now we have 2 more crawdad holes in the ditch.

 

[catjac1975]

I have seen a few dead ones in my yard> I thought birds dropped them.