fish farm

[ddd75]

looking into possibly a tilapia farm. looks pretty promising.

anyone know about profitability? problems ?

 

[skyhightree1]

looking into possibly a tilapia farm. looks pretty promising.

anyone know about profitability? problems ?

Looking forward to hearing more about it because I looked into it but seemed really time consuming and complex

 

[ddd75]

looking into possibly a tilapia farm. looks pretty promising.

anyone know about profitability? problems ?

Looking forward to hearing more about it because I looked into it but seemed really time consuming and complex

it does seem a little time consuming. but I'm thinking with automatic feeders, timed pumps, etc.. i could make it pretty self - sufficient .

 

[skyhightree1]

looking into possibly a tilapia farm. looks pretty promising.

anyone know about profitability? problems ?

Looking forward to hearing more about it because I looked into it but seemed really time consuming and complex

it does seem a little time consuming. but I'm thinking with automatic feeders, timed pumps, etc.. i could make it pretty self - sufficient .

I wanted to raise fish too cause I have a major direct market I could be in but the amount of time for them to grow and such kinda turned me off too.

 

[Anonymous]

You will be competing against imports. In India, seafood processors are subsidized 8% of their gross sales. So they sell everything at cost and still make a profit. I know a company that has fish farms in the Palacios Texas area. They raise Redfish because those are not imported as strong as catfish and tilapia.

 

[ddd75]

local place here raises trout.

i was reading an article on this guy raising the tilapia. He quit a pretty good job to do it full time.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Seen a segment, where a man raised catfish in old above ground swimming pools he bought used... And Made a pretty good chunk,doing it..

 

[TexasBred]

looking into possibly a tilapia farm. looks pretty promising.

anyone know about profitability? problems ?

Don't they die off when water temp. drops to a certain point???

 

[callmefence]

looking into possibly a tilapia farm. looks pretty promising.

anyone know about profitability? problems ?

Don't they die off when water temp. drops to a certain point???

Yes
If trout are raised in your area I doubt your season is long enough to grow talipia to size outdoors
Also they are so cheap unless you can create a farm to table kinda mark-up it would be hard to make anything without being on a very large scale.
The trout may be a better option for you.
You better check your state regs. I didn't say report to them. But educate yourself... ;-)

We raise blue catfish. Well we buy the fingerlings and grow them to a couple pounds. Then move them to grow to the 10 pound plus range. We sell them on a very small scale to high fenced hunting outfits to stock in their ponds.
I don't make anything really. I enjoy messing with them. And I've got some giants in my ponds to support my habit when I can't get on the river. :cboy:

 

[Bestoutwest]

My wife works for a university that has a fish farm operation attached to it. Electric costs are high, failure can be around every corner and your married to it to make sure there are no failures.

 

[Son of Butch]

Had a good friend do it several years ago. After 1st year's sale contract was up the bottom fell out of farm raised
fish market. If I remember correctly imports from China did in the market, anyway he was done in 2 years.

 

[dun]

Have you thought of raising Emus?

 

[ddd75]

Emu's might be the next step.



ahh.. figured i'd ask on here. Looks pretty labor intensive like you guys are saying..


crushing my dreams

 

[greybeard]

I tried it for a few days back in late August. Not all it's cracked up to be. :lol: :lol: :lol2:

 

[ga.prime]

Farm grown freshwater shrimp!

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Emu's might be the next step.



Back in the late 90s they were turning them loose here..if you could catch em you could have a trailer load..

 

[slick4591]

I hear gourd farming is the thing.

 

[ga.prime]

I hear gourd farming is the thing.

You heard right.

 

[dun]

I hear gourd farming is the thing.

You heard right.

How big of a pond do you need to grow a gourmet

 

[slick4591]

Rows, Dun, rows!!