Customer Reviews

Small Scale Crayfish Farming

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This booklet is a rip off. It's like the publisher just copy and pasted information from Wikipedia and around the internet. And forget about it helping you setting up a pond or anything else for that matter. The cover says "small scale" but it only makes (very vague) reference to "5 acre ponds" (and larger) and then does not even say how to set that up. I was hoping to set up a small pond in my back pasture, something like 10 feet by 20 feet. Forget it. If this is even possible, this "book" isn't going to help you. This booklet was put out by a scam artist who just wanted to make some cash off people like me (those who wanted real, practical information). Don't be fooled. Anyone can self-publish free information and make money off it. The information isn't even good (much less useful). If anything, this will teach you how you can publish crap off the internet to make money off honest people. The 2 stars are for the fact that it makes good fire kindling.

This "book", while it does have some good information on crayfish farming, isn't a good value. It's 50 pages, 8"x5", cheaply printed, with varying fonts, smears, poor graphics, and haphazard layout. Some sections are nothing more than a collection of sentences pasted together from other sources. At the most, I'd call this a booklet.

There are also several pages containing nothing but a recipe for crayfish. I don't think recipes belong in this book, especially when they seem to be just page fillers.

I gave this booklet three stars because it does give some decent information on food, moulting stages, water pH, etc. But information available free on the Internet will tell you just as much, without the $11 plus postage price.

The information contained in this booklet is good, but i would like it more if it had a little more graphics to ilustrate with more detail how to build the infraestructure needed to start an operation as well as a checklist of the materials and equipment needed, but in general i would say the booklet is good.

The author of Small Scale Crayfish Farming seems to have only compiled some old obsolete information in to a home printed book, with only a few observations of his own and a lot of filler pages with recipes.

The author states "MAKE BIG MONEY raising crayfish", but never goes in to any specific details about the actual farming operations, constructions, maintenance, or potential problems. The author never addresses any potential permitting requirements, or marketing of the crayfish after harvest. This booklet barely has an honorable mention of the tank farming possibilities for crayfish.

This booklet reads like many of the agricultural white papers written by university students, and not like someone who may run their own successful crayfish farming operation.

There is more useful information available online, and via several of the online video sites like youtube.

I do not recommend anyone purchase this book, because anyone who is half serious about crayfish farming, has already read more information online than what is in this booklet.

This is an excellent source of information for people who want to start a crayfish farming business. It covers all aspects, including pond and tank culture, sexing, feeding requirements, and sources for crayfish.

Both this book and the Red Claw book were great! I stayed up really late perusing them last night. I'm hoping to visit a couple of local farms in the near future in the hopes to learn more about starting my own crayfish farm.

Very detailed, yet simple to understand. A lot of drawing and information and written in a manner that even someone new to crayfish raising could understand. Lots of good info and expertise. AA++

Book is very informative. Am using it to construct crayfish habitat to grow them as a supplement to our food storage.

Still have not received it. Really dont even want it anymore as it is too late in the season.