Author Topic: Low maintenance Livestock for anyone with a ditch! (Read 2680 times)

Catholic Samurai · « **on:** August 16, 2011, 12:16:27 AM »

Some of yall might remember these things when you were little... you know, before we started spraying poison #### for misquitos and fertilizing our lawns with salt so it would be green for a while.

herbert · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2011, 07:49:29 AM »

good idea!

PereJoseph · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:11:33 PM »

They taste great, too ! And they're very versatile, at least in 'Cadien cooking : besides boiling them, there's crawfish étouffée, crawfish bisque, crawfish stuffing, crawfish boudin, and then, of course, the option of adding them to soups, stews, gumbos, etc. They can survive anywhere where the water doesn't freeze completely solid in the winter, so basically as far north as southern portion of the State of Illinois.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2011, 11:11:43 PM »

Excellent!!

Crawfish bisque-- :ready-to-eat:

What a super idea! LOL at "livestock"!

We used to catch them all the time in the creek when we were little. I took my kids to look for some recently but we didn't find any.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2011, 12:45:50 AM »

I'm not too fond of crustaceans as food (save for crab), least of all lobster, so I don't know if I personally would bother with them.

I think I'll make due with the squirrels and doves.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #5 on:** August 26, 2011, 12:40:54 PM »

Anything which involves skinning <<gulp>>

An avocado grove and a henhouse I could handle.

I used to love shrimping around Bisquayne Bay and feasting on scampi.

Magnus · « **Reply #6 on:** September 17, 2011, 11:24:43 PM »

I'm partial to them myself. We used to get them out of the ditch behind our house in La Marque, TX back in the 60s and pitch them on a grill. Good eats. Course that was before La Marque was swallowed by the sprawl out of Texas City.