Harvesting Fresh water Shrimp...IN KENTUCKY... 

Thank you so much for watching, I hope all goes well for you, accidents happen but you have to keep moving forward, may god bless you and I hope you find your freedom and happiness

Sorry accidents happen to you and I love to work on farm I am here for you

Yea it's a cool experience, blows my mind to know you can farm raise fresh water shrimp

I’ll be there in the fall there starting to get the ponds ready now

It doesn’t taste much different to me! Seems a little less fishy if that makes sense.

As far as culture goes the fw shrimp are slower growing, have a much small larger head to tail ratio and do not have the amino acid profile and iodine tase of saltwater shrimp. They also cannot be grown at the densities of saltwater shrimp.

That’s awsome I wish o could move down there that’s my plan in the long run, let us know how you do on the shrimp ponds

With these shrimp the can only breed and lay eggs in salt water, they won’t fertilize or hatch in fresh water, so we buy them as babies and raise them for 5 months to harvest, but yes you are correct the birds and herons transport aquatic creatures and invasive species and parasites to other bodies of water

Awesome

There is a dealer that sells them in bulk, they do end up getting eggs but the shrimp can't survive the winter

I live in arizona wonder id they can survive winter here. How big can they get if can live live longer. Kentucky looks like great place to fish

@@darrelldewoody they would get huge maybe 10 inches, arizona would be a good place to raise them

It is seasonal, we only do it once a year as a fun hobby, but an indoor facility would be ideal for year round production

I replied to that on this post. It was researched in the US 40 yeas ago. When salt water shrimp farming became feasible it took over. Slot of people have small production tanks for saltwater shrimp. Not really commercial.

The water in the ponds are replaced every year new water is pumped in, but the shrimp do a good job of cleaning the water for you

We use small drag nets on our big pond by hand, I have a second video on the big pond

You have to buy them every time

Unfortunately they were just put in the ponds and I missed it, but they are born in salt water and we buy them as babies and add them to our indoor live wells for a few weeks then move them to the big ponds to grow, I can make a video of this in the future

@@RiverBloodfishing would love to see a step by step my buddy just started crawfish farming , might try to get him todo this

Yes, the first three fridays in September, they are usually sold before they come out of the pond, but we keep a few hundred pounds back for individual sale, come by next year you will see the shrimp sign in butler pointing the way

How do you pre-order?

Yes, if you know what your doing it can be very lucrative, the only overhead is digging the ponds if you don’t already have ponds on your property and feeding them

@@RiverBloodfishing Awesome job!!!

We have never tried to breed them in ky the weather gets too cold and the eggs would never survive but I would imagine it could be done further south

Soy meal, fish meal, they can eat any type of grain really but a protein fish meal is best for growth

No, they are all sold locally. And most are already paid for before the harvest

We have a middle man we buy from out of Lexington ky, there is not much to it, just have a deep enough pond with moving oxygenated water, and they just eat a grain based food, there are some university’s and forums online you ca dig around and get all the info you need if your truley interested

@@RiverBloodfishing I got all stuff Mississippi State had it not much How deep do the pond need to be

@@joerowland7350 10 ft minimum with a good fountain, but Mississippi is a little warmer you could possibly go shallower but I wouldn’t recommend it, we also have a river about 200 yards from the pond we pump fresh water in before we stock the ponds

@@RiverBloodfishing ok thank you where I'm puting the first pound is my lowest tareis in a pascher so I have large water shed I put sandpoint well in rell close to it

Not in the ohio river, there just farm raised

Thank you for that. I knew it looked different I just wasn’t sure, but now we know

Yes I heard the same thing, they put way way to many in the ponds same with there fish

I usually cook mine with the heads on, I have a second video and I grill them whole, but some people are scared of the heads lol 😂

Macrobrachium Rosenbergii ? This is what google says

@@RiverBloodfishing thank u for your reply. but rosenbergii seems to be bigger in size. I live in Mongolia and as the shrimps are terribly expensive here I'm thinking to breed some small size freshwater prawns in my 700L home tank for my family usage. Would u pls recommend what spieces would be suitable for that purpose

@@25raise the 2 main types of farmed shrimp are tiger prawns and pacific white shrimp, I would suggest the tiger prawns (penaeus monodon) because they are easier to raise in fresh water systems no salt needed, and you can grow them as big or small as you want, I would also get a bigger tank and filter system if I were to do it at home, the shrimp need space and territory of there own to thrive, but you can put vertical nets in the tank and they will climb up and live on the net you can see these nets in my shrimp videos

@@RiverBloodfishing thank u v m. Now I get it. I've subscribed to your channel and will g through all of your videos

@@RiverBloodfishing Is it true that the ones in Thailand, prawns with claws and without claws are of 2 different species? Ones with claws are known as River Prawns and the ones without are called Tiger prawns? Or they are both basically the same?

These are 12 to 15 a pound unless they are cleaned then the price will go up a little

The problem is getting them out before they die, we have to scoop them up very quick with out squishing them into the mud, but the big pond has a harder bottom and we use a sain net to scoop them, I have a second video of this on my channel and thank you for watching

they eat the tails