Crayfish eating mouse situation

[itsthelendon]

I originally posted the thread about the crayfish eating the live mouse and it was closed. I got busy with work before I could return and discuss with members about it.
For the record:
I was honestly asking the question about if anyone has done this. I’m new to crayfish and just wanted to feed them things that are in the wild. A lot of people started freaking out about the “animal cruelty” and I can understand that with any animal being fed to another but it did drown within seconds and wasn’t “torn apart”. Besides the fact the mouse did drown, (mice get squeezed to death by snakes and ripped apart by snapping turtle all the time, meaning much worse death), has anyone fed the crayfish anything like a mouse, Dead or alive? Bad for them?
I’m not trying to start a huge controversy, I’m asking a question to the MFK members because I did feed mine a mouse, the end. So I need some expertise please!

 

[sengal279]

Only thing like that i have done would be to feed some green spot puffers a pink that my one of my neonates didnt eat. and once a mouse carcarcass (regurge from adult snake) was fed to my bichir tank.

 

[loureyes]

I have fed mice to red tailed cats, oscars, lungfish, ect...but its not for the faint of heart. some people really get grossed out by that stuff so you have to take that into consideration.

 

[Fat Homer]

not saying you were right or wrong here... but i guess with all the different food sources available to a cray, people freak when they hear some one fed a pinky to their cray...

Especially when you consider most people who do use pinkies as feeders tend to use them with animals which most likely are finicky eaters or because thats a necessary part of their natural diet...

 

[HackJob]

can't find worms in your yard?

 

[MN_Rebel]

Why you would feed a LIVE mouse to your crayfish if every food sources are readily available to these crayfish?

 

[luvinbluegills]

Yup, coulda fed a frozen mouse. I'm surprised it would "drown within seconds" 'cause mice swim pretty well. Why not give the cray stuff it is most likely to eat in the wild? To assure the most nutrition how about a good pellet supplemented with worms, cut flesh, etc;?

 

[kevinfleming21]

I would try hairless mice, less messy.

 

[MN_Rebel]

I would try hairless mice, less messy.

Better if its frozen or use correct diet for crayfish.

 

[onehundredkeepa]

Someone explain why feeding them a frozen mouse would be better than a live one? The mouse is somehow going to experience its death. While some may think that feeding the mouse to a crawfish is demonic, I can assure you that it is no less inhumane than watching a feeder mouse be squeezed to death by my python on a weekly basis. Let us not even go into the depth of the testing that laboratories do on mice day in and day out.

After a little bit of research, one would conclude that crawfish have the ability to eat almost anything. And, under certain circumstances, they will. A mouse contains plenty of macronutrients that a crawfish needs to survive.

To sum it up, feeding a mouse, which is raised as a feeder mouse, to a crawfish is legal. And, morals aside, OP is just wondering if anyone else has ever done this.