How to Look after Yabbies- Sweet little dam dwelling crustaceans.

The first thing to know about yabbies is that if you are lucky enough to have them in your dam, don't tell anyone! People will sneak on to your property at night and catch your yabbies. This is not uncommon! Kepp your yabbies a secret or one day you will go to your dam and the yabbies will be gone!

Apparently yabbies taste delicious. Everyone always says so. I have never eaten one. I don't like shellfish.

Yabbies are quite commonly found in freshwater dams on farms in southwestern Australia. Most of our dams had yabbies and initially we caught lots of them but after a while we really didn't like the process of killing them, so we stopped catching them. We let our yabbies, like most other creatures on our farm live in peace and die of old age.

Here are the first batch of live yabbies we ever netted from the farm dams,waiting in our bath. They are having a bit of a swim while we contemplate how to kill them.