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Offline JD

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Time to grow some yabbies!
« on: August 24, 2009, 09:07:30 PM »
Due to popular demand, I am starting on a crop of yabbies on the weekend! Have some new tanks to start the process and keen to get some going again now that the weather has warmed up.

RY has put his order in so I better get cracking!

J.D.

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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2009, 09:12:42 PM »
MMMMMMM yabbies  your starting a new crop are they from seeds  %.% %.% %.%
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2009, 09:20:58 PM »
No DD toys they are from males and females. I put the males and females in separate tanks, turn up the heat (via an old water bed heater) extend the daylight hours via a kambrook timer switch and lights (so they think it is summer) and then put the boys and girls together and wammo! usually get 70-80% berried (that is with eggs) within a couple of weeks of that.

300-500 eggs each female so plenty of yabbies. Takes 3 months for bait size and then 6 months for good eating size.

Yum Yum
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2009, 09:42:05 PM »
Thats awesome 6months till eating size might have to look into that saves sitting on a dam bank lol
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2009, 09:57:26 PM »
Hey JD, RY said a meet at your place with all the yabbies we can eat laid-on.
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To be honest I have never eaten yabbie, so am lookin forward to it. That, and Aqua-culture has allways interested me.
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2009, 10:03:33 PM »
How good are these?

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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2009, 10:10:38 PM »
Top pic is my drainable yabby dam and below a yabby pizza!

First Class!

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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2009, 10:17:44 PM »
Another one!

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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2009, 10:32:17 PM »
Yabbies are real fine eating.

I tried to grow some a while back - but I got attached to them and couldn't kill 'em.

Then the lid came off the tank and a heap escaped into the house. Kept finding their shed skins around the place for a couple of years - reckon they managed to survive quite while! Never saw them though.
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2009, 11:22:13 PM »
Quote from: pinnies4me on August 24, 2009, 10:32:17 PM
Yabbies are real fine eating.

I tried to grow some a while back - but I got attached to them and couldn't kill 'em.

Then the lid came off the tank and a heap escaped into the house. Kept finding their shed skins around the place for a couple of years - reckon they managed to survive quite while! Never saw them though.

Pinchy the Lobster!  :lol :lol :lol
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2009, 08:09:24 AM »
Always a great story when yabbies are concered.


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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2009, 08:21:58 AM »
Quote from: JD on August 25, 2009, 08:09:24 AM
Always a great story when yabbies are concered.


J.D.

So we can expect Yabbie pizzas at your meet as well JD.
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2009, 11:51:04 AM »
MMMM You are making my mouth water.
Yabbies are sooooo much better than prawns  #.#
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2009, 02:27:30 PM »
Yeah!! Yabbies rock!   Used to net the dams on my uncles property as a kid and we'd cook up hundreds in an old copper washer in the shed, pour them onto potato sacks and have the everyone from miles around (small country town) come over for beer and yabbies. One of my fave memories as a child. ^^^

Good luck with the latest crop.

P.S. over here in the U.S. all they have are shrimp, No where near as good as the Aussie Yabby!!!! $#$

Can't wait to get back home....
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Re: Time to grow some yabbies!
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2009, 02:43:53 PM »
Yea! I met someone in the Louisiana who showed me how small they are over there.

I can grow these from 15g to 100g in 8 - 12 months.

I too believe in being humane. We put ours to sleep before they go into the boiling water and we do not smoke any here either!


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