We were given 3 ducks (a Rouen, a Silver Appleyard, and a Mutt), and we bought 10 more Silver Appleyards. We worked up the nerve to cook some of the eggs, and we really like them. They remind me of the hen eggs we used to get at my Grandparents. The duck eggs have a lot more flavor than the bland hen eggs we've been getting at the store.
We've had the eggs boiled, fried, scrambled, and cooked in cakes. The yolk is a little darker and larger in proportion to the white than the yolk in a hen egg, but they really taste good.
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===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
we use to have cayugas and pekings on the pond.i started eating their aggs and liked them better than the eggs we were getting from our barred rock chickens.
Originally Posted by deflave
Get your dick out of that rooster and go to church.
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Well of the damn Red Tail Hawk would quit eating our ducks.....
We've been lucky so far, and haven't lost any of the ducks to hawks. We were going to have them out at the pond, but coyotes have been a real problem lately. The ducks (and two pair of Geese) reside in a fenced area under the watchful eye of a very large and protective Great Dane.
The Dane is protective of the ducks, but the dog and the Geese have a somewhat less than congenial relationship. The Geese like to sneak up and pinch the Dane, and the Dane will occasionally run full bore through the middle of the Geese scattering them willy-nilly.
===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
Yeah this sucker hangs in the pine trees and waits till they are about halfway from the shelter to the pond. SOB leaves the minute anybody shows outside with a shotgun too!
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I haven't had them since I was a kid. My Grandpa's brother used to raise ducks and goats. It was always duck eggs and goats milk for him. I remember liking them, but they were huge.
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