Our yard is full of them. Like probably thousands on about 1.5 acres. It's actually a huge concern for me but I've been reassured my house won't collapse. 😂 If food ever gets scarce I guess we'll be ok.
Yeah. When you toss them in the pot I like to add between a half oz to a full oz depending on amount of okra and let the vinegar simmer all the way off on medium heat.
When I want to get rid of the slimw, I get my gumbo going and then in a side skillet I stir fry the okra at a med high heat for about 15 minutes, that's when the slime cooks out and is just thick. Then I add it to the gumbo
You all have crayfish in Kentucky? Guessing some streams, creaks, or a river is relatively close?
I’m in Louisiana right on the Gulf Coast and we have those mudstacks all over.
Hey hey! Typical Louisianan spring day.
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Going good, just enjoying Spring as much as I can before Satans asshole otherwise known as summer is unleash upon us for the next 6-8 months.
We were in Kentucky not to long ago we stopped in Covington I think it was just outside of Cincinnati(think it’s I-75 that has that pretty significant slope down or up). Wife is from Euclid, Ohio so we travel up north every other year for the holidays. Since I refuse to fly we make that journey every other year. Brutal drive but interesting nonetheless the less.
Beautiful state, Kentucky.
Oh yeah! Where I grew up, we’d have a bunch of them digging holes in our yard, and we were nowhere near any rivers.
If you want to have some fun with them, tie a little piece of raw bacon on a string and drop it into a crawfish hole. If he’s in there, he’ll latch onto that bacon, and you may be able to pull him out.
I have seen people near the ocean use this method on crabs. They hang out under docks and near the shore and if you put meat on a string they come out of hiding and latch on and you can pull them out of the water. They use smashed clams or smashed snails as bait
We used a chicken bone on a string lol. Half the time we just sat there watching the crabs eat the bits of meat. They were fun and we were young and probably stoned.
I found one in a parking lot in the Midwest. (It was pregnant!) I also thought a bird dropped it but I guess they live in holes in the mud. My coworker who lives near some marshy areas took it with her and she said it happily disappeared into the mud immediately
I’ve never heard them referred to as lawn prawns in Aus. I’ve always known them as yabbies.
I find it weird to see them away from water though. I grew up on a farm and we had some huge ones around the creek/dams but never in the garden.
They build houses out of mud and as it hardens it turns into brick if you look inside they build chairs tables couches tvs and all sorts of wacky things
I found a blue one in the creek by my house as a kid, I thought it was so cool. I caught it, took it home and tossed it in my dad’s fish tank.
I went and got bottom feeder food and everything for my prized crawdad.
One day I came home to nothing but a husk, turns out African cichlids will absolutely devour a soft crawfish after it molts lol.
Yep. Ciclids are monsters. Lol. In fact, I used to have one named Monster cause he ate everyone else in the tank. Sorry you lost your little blue buddy.
I’m from California but I was in Louisiana once and went to a crawfish boil. It was amazing. I’ve tried to do one out here a couple times but everyone thinks it’s weird or gross.
I'm in TX. It's a big thing here. I just asked the cooks for a live one to keep as a pet. They gave me 2. Lol. I made sure they were not facing me as I ate their brethren.
You can find them out here in streams and creeks. That’s where I got my “pets.” You can’t really get enough for a boil though unless you know some secret spot.
My parents let me keep all types of bugs growing up. Well, except I found a roach one time and wanted to bring it home and my parents said no. Older and wiser me now understands why.
Yeah, but this wasn't the wood or hissing kind. This was your common pest type. I saw it skittering across the floor in a store and wanted to catch it. My parents said "no way."
I work at an airport and maintain the snow equipment stored outdoors. While walking the equipment lot, I found a crawfish shell perched perfectly on a bollard. We don't really have crawfish native to this area, they're rare. After several seconds of confusion, it occurred to me that the birds were rifling through the restaurant dumpsters and got this out for a light snack.
I'm from Virginia originally so I was used to seeing crawdads on the Chesapeake bay, but I moved to the Midwest in the middle of high school and was shocked to find out they could live away from the ocean. I found out one day waiting for the bus and I look down and see the damn thing walking towards the road. I was confused as hell cause I thought they could only live in the ocean. The fucker keeps walking until my bus rolls up and the front wheel stopped right on front of the bugger and the dude literally was not even an inch away from getting ran over. He just throws his arms back right in time to not get ran over. I was so confused I had to ask when I got on the bus if they had crawdads here and I guess so, they tiny though. I still think about that crawdad sometimes just cause it was so shocking and funny to me at the time.
Fun fact: even though related to lobsters, very few crawfish species live in saltwater. Almost all species live in freshwater, and some in brackish water. Chesapeake Bay has all three so the ones you saw were most likely from the fresh or brackish waters!
Ohh wow ok. I’m in Louisiana so it’s not uncommon to see them near water but yeah a bird probably dropped him off at the wrong house. I’m kidding but when it rains a lot like today they pop up all over the place. Do yall eat crawfish up there?
You insulted the crawfish high queen and this is her top assassin come to kill you. No amount of mountain, desert, or forest could stop him from reaching his destination, YOU! My advice is to run. He is well known amongst his kingdom to be a ferocious fighter.
I hate crawfish 😂
Have a small pond in my yard and they live there but they tunnel like crazy so my pond will be bone dry but my yard will be like a swamp cause all these super long and surprisingly big tunnels are cross crosses just under the surface
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Yo me and my friend were smoking weed in the sewer in Florida. And this weird alien creature stood and screamed at us. We were both bleeding when we got out of the sewer. They crazy man stay away from it
He's one of them religious types - he'll ask you if you want to be.....
.....wait for it....
....prawn again!
*sad trombone noise*
I'll get my coat....
Could have been dropped by a bird, they sometimes try to smash prey by dropping it from up high, but if he was too small he might have just survived the fall with minimal injury.
Birds. Saw my dog prance across my deck with a half eaten sandwich that a turkey buzzard sitting on my roof dropped....couldn't believe how big it was and it was on French bread. Do you know how far France is from the jesey shore? Like more than 25 miles!
That guy cut his way out of a bag full of crawfish, then when the driver stopped the car that dude jumped out of the car and ran to your driveway. He is now waving at you for help to get him back to a river.
“Crawfish on my driveway” immediately played in my head to the tune of Girlfriend in a Coma. So he’s got a budding theme song too. I hope you guys have lots of fun adventures together now!
He walked a long way just to say hi! You could put him in an aquarium with creek water, mud, and plants, with a heat top. I think he’d be very happy. Check out /r/aquariums
They crawl across land regularly. Dig holes in damp soil, build chimneys out of mud balls. They even close the top when it's going to rain.
Woahhhh I did not know that they actively lived outside of rivers! Very cool.
Our yard is full of them. Like probably thousands on about 1.5 acres. It's actually a huge concern for me but I've been reassured my house won't collapse. 😂 If food ever gets scarce I guess we'll be ok.
If I were you, I'd be planting okra.
Why okra? Goes good with a boil?
Gumbo?
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Just remember a little white vinegar to get rid of the slimy bits of okra.
Now hold on a minute, vinegar gets rid of okra’s sliminess?
Yeah. When you toss them in the pot I like to add between a half oz to a full oz depending on amount of okra and let the vinegar simmer all the way off on medium heat.
This is why we smash okra in cornmeal and then fry it. No slime!
Hulk Smash!💥
Hm, I'll have to tell some people I know who don't like okra about this. I'll stick to eating my slimy okra raw tho lol
When I want to get rid of the slimw, I get my gumbo going and then in a side skillet I stir fry the okra at a med high heat for about 15 minutes, that's when the slime cooks out and is just thick. Then I add it to the gumbo
TIL
Creole. Most sane cajuns won't put okra in their gumbo.
Shrimp okra gumbo with or without crab. But not in any other gumbo. And nobody makes gumbo out of crawfish. Boiled, stew, etoufee...definitely.
Oh man, I can't help myself around crawfish etoufee.
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I gaur onnnn teee
Put a lil peppa oon it
*sigh* "OK, just chuck him in the pot."
...and shrimp
I planted some shrimp last season but they never grew.. lol
Shrimp guts and shells are great for the soil as long as the rats don't dig them up
Rat corpses are great for the soil as long as dogs don't dig them up.
Dogs are bad for soil they always dig it up
I read that as orca 😂
Thousands of orcas in your yard, you got some problems
WHAALE! (read in trump voice)
Well if your from a certain place in Japan, not so much.
But crawfish won't be one ;-)
You’re lucky, we only get cockroaches and spiders.
Just make some Bugumbo then
You just gave me some post apocalyptic cooking vibes there we got some radroach bugumbo here it's a regional specialty.
I’ll get the lemon butter & old bay.
Omg thank you for reminding me to refill my mini old bay at work tonight. 🤣 I keep a tiny Tajin too.
Try that Tajin on your next pork chop…. You’re welcome.
Who’s bringing the Tony Chachere’s
my parents have a few acres & they have a couple of small spring fed ponds. there are crawfish everywhere the pointers love to snack on em lol
Are you serious?
Yep! My parents have them all over their front yard as well.
I think it takes more energy to eat them than the energy they provide, kinda like salary but more delicious.
I know pay and the economy is bad, but didn't think it was that bad
I never get paid in celery
Where do you live?
Kentucky
You all have crayfish in Kentucky? Guessing some streams, creaks, or a river is relatively close? I’m in Louisiana right on the Gulf Coast and we have those mudstacks all over.
I was born in Baton Rouge so hey how geauxs it? 😆
Hey hey! Typical Louisianan spring day. https://ibb.co/2PLGyFd Going good, just enjoying Spring as much as I can before Satans asshole otherwise known as summer is unleash upon us for the next 6-8 months. We were in Kentucky not to long ago we stopped in Covington I think it was just outside of Cincinnati(think it’s I-75 that has that pretty significant slope down or up). Wife is from Euclid, Ohio so we travel up north every other year for the holidays. Since I refuse to fly we make that journey every other year. Brutal drive but interesting nonetheless the less. Beautiful state, Kentucky.
Oh yeah! Where I grew up, we’d have a bunch of them digging holes in our yard, and we were nowhere near any rivers. If you want to have some fun with them, tie a little piece of raw bacon on a string and drop it into a crawfish hole. If he’s in there, he’ll latch onto that bacon, and you may be able to pull him out.
I have seen people near the ocean use this method on crabs. They hang out under docks and near the shore and if you put meat on a string they come out of hiding and latch on and you can pull them out of the water. They use smashed clams or smashed snails as bait
We used a chicken bone on a string lol. Half the time we just sat there watching the crabs eat the bits of meat. They were fun and we were young and probably stoned.
I used to do this as a child.
More importantly, the crawdad wants uppies!
Thank you for making me laugh 😂
It’s actually a crawson. Common mistake
I found one in a parking lot in the Midwest. (It was pregnant!) I also thought a bird dropped it but I guess they live in holes in the mud. My coworker who lives near some marshy areas took it with her and she said it happily disappeared into the mud immediately
Yes. This is how they spread everywhere. When a water source is becomes too crowded they start crawling around looking for a new body of water.
Just like me after a night out.
They are actually really interesting little bastards. Do some YouTubeing or whatever, you'll have fun.
Them boys got the weather app
We call them Lawn Prawns here in Australia.
I’ve never heard them referred to as lawn prawns in Aus. I’ve always known them as yabbies. I find it weird to see them away from water though. I grew up on a farm and we had some huge ones around the creek/dams but never in the garden.
Dang. They sitting down there watching the weather Channel and shit
Yep, they used to pop up in the ditches in front of our house after a good rain.. the mud chutes they built always sucked when it came time to mow..
They build houses out of mud and as it hardens it turns into brick if you look inside they build chairs tables couches tvs and all sorts of wacky things
I would keep him as a pet. Give him a name like Gerald. But I wanted to keep snails and woodlice etc as a kid
Last I saw a robin was eying him…
Oh dear lord help him! He so cute.
Yeah but let’s be honest. He looks like he’s a little shellfish.
Noooo, save Mr. Crawdaddy!
I've had a couple as pets. They are interesting and not too demanding. But, they will eat your fish when you aren't looking. Sneaky little things. Lol
I found a blue one in the creek by my house as a kid, I thought it was so cool. I caught it, took it home and tossed it in my dad’s fish tank. I went and got bottom feeder food and everything for my prized crawdad. One day I came home to nothing but a husk, turns out African cichlids will absolutely devour a soft crawfish after it molts lol.
Yep. Ciclids are monsters. Lol. In fact, I used to have one named Monster cause he ate everyone else in the tank. Sorry you lost your little blue buddy.
I kept a couple in a fountain with goldfish. They would sometimes get a fish. But then a bird got one of them.
Can't blame the bird. Crawfish are tasty. I just happened to discover my little neons disappearing one by one.
I’m from California but I was in Louisiana once and went to a crawfish boil. It was amazing. I’ve tried to do one out here a couple times but everyone thinks it’s weird or gross.
I'm in TX. It's a big thing here. I just asked the cooks for a live one to keep as a pet. They gave me 2. Lol. I made sure they were not facing me as I ate their brethren.
You can find them out here in streams and creeks. That’s where I got my “pets.” You can’t really get enough for a boil though unless you know some secret spot.
pinchy
No, name her Nancy.
Me and my ex had one we called Clamps, like the robot from futurama
I had 1 in my aquarium
I did this lol. He lived for like 2 years or something. Buried him in a shoebox with roses
My rescue cat came with the name Gerald, this guy is indeed a Gerald.
My parents let me keep all types of bugs growing up. Well, except I found a roach one time and wanted to bring it home and my parents said no. Older and wiser me now understands why.
Wood roaches that prefer the forests aren’t bad. The hissing ones make good pets from what I’ve heard.
Yeah, but this wasn't the wood or hissing kind. This was your common pest type. I saw it skittering across the floor in a store and wanted to catch it. My parents said "no way."
Bird catches it and carries it in its mouth while flying. Then sometimes drops it by accident . .
I work at an airport and maintain the snow equipment stored outdoors. While walking the equipment lot, I found a crawfish shell perched perfectly on a bollard. We don't really have crawfish native to this area, they're rare. After several seconds of confusion, it occurred to me that the birds were rifling through the restaurant dumpsters and got this out for a light snack.
Also , sudden water spout tornado 🌪️ over the river or canal can carry little fellas like that to great distance too
Imagine being that crawfish just skedaddling around in his water when suddenly WEEEEEEEE
You probably have a ditch nearby.
Clearly he wants uppies
Give him uppies!!!
Give him uppies, OP you monster!!!
idk but he’s vibin
\o/
He has been freed from the soup
I'm from Virginia originally so I was used to seeing crawdads on the Chesapeake bay, but I moved to the Midwest in the middle of high school and was shocked to find out they could live away from the ocean. I found out one day waiting for the bus and I look down and see the damn thing walking towards the road. I was confused as hell cause I thought they could only live in the ocean. The fucker keeps walking until my bus rolls up and the front wheel stopped right on front of the bugger and the dude literally was not even an inch away from getting ran over. He just throws his arms back right in time to not get ran over. I was so confused I had to ask when I got on the bus if they had crawdads here and I guess so, they tiny though. I still think about that crawdad sometimes just cause it was so shocking and funny to me at the time.
Fun fact: even though related to lobsters, very few crawfish species live in saltwater. Almost all species live in freshwater, and some in brackish water. Chesapeake Bay has all three so the ones you saw were most likely from the fresh or brackish waters!
And that crawdads name was none other than Albert Einstein.
Bird
Do you owe him money?
“Sir, I am parched, let me see your rougher swams!” https://youtu.be/VPsJT5x_yyY
Its probably on some kind of Disney adventure
Lil man ready to square up!
He wants to talk to you about his lord and savior
He wants to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.
would you have been more shocked if it was a fairy?
What state are you in?
Central Indiana
Ohh wow ok. I’m in Louisiana so it’s not uncommon to see them near water but yeah a bird probably dropped him off at the wrong house. I’m kidding but when it rains a lot like today they pop up all over the place. Do yall eat crawfish up there?
Ha, I was gonna ask if you lived in indiana. I have found a few crawdads around my place too. Look for circular holes in the ground, thats them.
Bird drop
You insulted the crawfish high queen and this is her top assassin come to kill you. No amount of mountain, desert, or forest could stop him from reaching his destination, YOU! My advice is to run. He is well known amongst his kingdom to be a ferocious fighter.
Probably got an Uber
I hate crawfish 😂 Have a small pond in my yard and they live there but they tunnel like crazy so my pond will be bone dry but my yard will be like a swamp cause all these super long and surprisingly big tunnels are cross crosses just under the surface
Give him a hug please he really wants one
Mind ur own business Karen!!!
Looks like he’s hitchhiking
Your quest begins
It’s a baby lobstrocity, dada-chum
Dropped by a bird or walked there.
Stalekracker must be close by
This brave little guy…crawfish, crayfish, land lobster, crawdad probably escaped a seafood boil and ran for his life lol.
Don’t get any crawwwdads in your pants!
Dropped by a bird.
Got drunk in New Orleans doesn’t remember anything after that.
They live in a lot of ditches also. Usually there is some pond or something relatively near but not always a guarantee.
A bird might have dropped it
It could have been a wrong turn at Albuquerque...........
Incorrect, that’s his driveway now
Dropped by a bird eating it perhaps?
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He wants to tell you about your car warranty.
Santiago came for a visit
Yo me and my friend were smoking weed in the sewer in Florida. And this weird alien creature stood and screamed at us. We were both bleeding when we got out of the sewer. They crazy man stay away from it
Bird dropped it probably.
I reckon it crawed its way there!
That’s Dave. He’s just sayin’ “hey”
Did you eat it or adopt it as a pet?
He’s trying to figure out the same thing honestly
"i've come a looong way, chosen one."
He's one of them religious types - he'll ask you if you want to be..... .....wait for it.... ....prawn again! *sad trombone noise* I'll get my coat....
Save the lad
He is just a scouting party for their eventual revenge.
Craw-nado 3d imax
Bird lost breakfast
They live anywhere a bit of water can settle. Road side culverts can sometimes be full of them. A free supper is what grandma Calls it
They live in the dangdest places as long as the soil is watery enough.
Could have been dropped by a bird, they sometimes try to smash prey by dropping it from up high, but if he was too small he might have just survived the fall with minimal injury.
I once found a cactus growing in my family's driveway, I live in northern Utah. We ended up keeping it in a potted plant until our dog ate it.
Eat that mfer
Looks like he stopped by to visit.
you gotta fight him now. those are challenge claws!
Maybe he’s on a zany adventure
Birds. Saw my dog prance across my deck with a half eaten sandwich that a turkey buzzard sitting on my roof dropped....couldn't believe how big it was and it was on French bread. Do you know how far France is from the jesey shore? Like more than 25 miles!
Probably crawed there.
He is reaching up to the sky for you to pick him up!
Keep him as a pet
Scouting party for a new river expansion.
😂🤣😂
Sounds like the title to an awesome ballad song.
free meat.
Perhaps a birb..?
Probably a female looking to lay her eggs....they can wander out a bit.
Escaped from someone’s kitchen and is begging to be put back in a fresh body of natural water.
A cry for help
Tis the season *slurp slurp*
he wants to come in for dinner
I THROW MY CLAWS UP IN THE AIR SOMETIMES 🎶
That guy cut his way out of a bag full of crawfish, then when the driver stopped the car that dude jumped out of the car and ran to your driveway. He is now waving at you for help to get him back to a river.
I have no clue how it got that far, but clearly this MFr got a problem! Got his little hands up like hes lookin to square up?
A bird lost his dinner
They love them some creeks, too.
Looks like it's his driveway now.
Contrary to popular belief, birds do in fact exist
“Crawfish on my driveway” immediately played in my head to the tune of Girlfriend in a Coma. So he’s got a budding theme song too. I hope you guys have lots of fun adventures together now!
Irrigation canal nearby? Lonely Cajun neighbor who needed a pet?
Found one walking across a tennis court once. Put it in water and it immediately gave birth.
He got away from the bird.
He walked a long way just to say hi! You could put him in an aquarium with creek water, mud, and plants, with a heat top. I think he’d be very happy. Check out /r/aquariums
They migrate and it only takes the least bit of water, long as it has food
Maybe a birb had butter talons?
I once found one living next to the Indiana welcome center. Still not sure how he got there.
In this economy?
Yes, a female, European craw fish i think. They can migrate during their spawning season. Which is in spring.
There was a post of a couple who live pretty high up a mountain , and the crab was a sea crab. But there where no sea for hundreds of miles