butcher ducks

[ninedeer]

it is the season,this summer I incubated 30 muscovy duck eggs had 22 hatch kept a few hen for more eggs and butchered the rest.I really enjoy eating theses ducks.as for duck eggs I would much rather eat duck eggs compared to chicken.as for the duck meat My wife uses it to make duck and noodles,yummy

[hogkiller]

Never had duck eggs before ninedeer but i have come in contact with some mean a** muscovy's,,,little bastards got me good. LOL

Are they a dark meat like mallard/woodies/bluebill?

[farmertrappe]

I raised 50 Rouens a few years ago supposedly for a chef at a restaurant. After telling me he would pay me a premium for the birds he offered me only $3.00 a pound, he pays me $3.50 for chickens??? cost twice as much to raise and ten times harder to process than chickens. So screw it called two friends who I know would post and help for free meat. We processed the last 30 ducks- just pulled skin on 20 of them after waxing ten to leave skin on. We cut up the skinless birds and that meat was incredible. I would brown it and use it with rice or pasta.