Quail + Crayfish = Dinner (Or: Other Uses for Poultry Innards)

[Omniskies]

This is an add-on to one of the quail posts. Since we already hijacked the post once to talk about Alaska I figured I'd make a second thread rather than hijack it again

I'm too far away from the ocean to get real shrimp, and a lot of our creeks are polluted out here (the ones that aren't are seriously over-fished). In addition, I have a 55 gallon long aquarium that needs something inside of it.

Has anyone tried raising crayfish/panfish for a "free" dinner using poultry innards?

Does anyone have any uses for their innards besides the compost heap or bait?

 

[Mrs MIA]

We sure did hijack that thread, didn't we?

Honestly, I don't know what else to do with them. Our neighbor asks for the organs and such to be saved for his sled dogs, but, um, well, I don't think you have many sled-dog owners there, do you?

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I think I hijacked it the worst..

Is it "safe" to feed your dogs the innards? Do you cook them first? Are there innards you can't feed the dogs?

I'm curious because although I don't have sled dogs, I have several dogs and they may enjoy this treat..


-Kim

 

[Mrs MIA]

I would cook them first... I don't know what the neighbors do. The dogs love giblets chopped up in their food...

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Crawfish are hard to raise....they need a lot of space! Otherwise the little suckers sit there and eat one another soon as one goes into molt. I tried the pet crawfish thing and it was enough to make me not try it again.

 

[Omniskies]

I read about the space issue. I was hoping that with enough rocks to hide under and enough food scattered about that they wouldn't be as prone to eating one another. I caught a dozen of varying sizes living in a clump of branches. Plus a 55 long kinda gives a lot of room, and can give even more if you create hills out of gravel.

If nothing else I suppose they'll be fun to have around. Even if we end up getting a fraction of a single meal after eight weeks.

If only it were as easy to raise lobster in the midwest as it is to raise chickens.