If they have access to a pond the eggs may taste fishy in the early spring when crayfish are abundant. Otherwise I prefer them to hen eggs. I had some KHAKI CAMPBELLS once that would lay until around the first of July. miles
Daughter has a couple dozen Rhode Island Reds, they lay good eggs, but then they are fed and left to "free range". Under a net I might add, too bad the ducks can't stay under cover.
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Ate some Goose eggs once. Made me sick. Must have been bad.
It's the only eggs we eat up here except the ones that come in a box. Fresh we get them from the geese that nest along the Yukon. Take a few eggs every day from each nest. They just keep laying more and never miss the missing ones. You guys that don't eat wild goose eggs are missing a real treat.
Duck eggs are good, but just make sure there isn't a baby chick in it!
Yep, worked in San Francisco for a few years - many filipino friends at the office. Some brought in balut for lunch. I got 3 for a wedding gift when I got married...it's a man thing, buck up....how much different than tiger meat...???
Ate some Goose eggs once. Made me sick. Must have been bad.
It's the only eggs we eat up here except the ones that come in a box. Fresh we get them from the geese that nest along the Yukon. Take a few eggs every day from each nest. They just keep laying more and never miss the missing ones. You guys that don't eat wild goose eggs are missing a real treat.
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.
I have used duck eggs in almost every way possible and have found them delicious. The egg is bigger than a chicken egg, and the membrane around the yolk is tougher than on a chicken egg, but the taste is great.
They are great for cakes & pies. My dad had a chicken farm when I was a kid. At Easter there would be roadside stands selling chickens & ducks dyed Easter egg colors. My parents bought me a baby duck for 3-4 years running. The ducks did their thing & the first thing I knew I had a flock of ducks & lots of eggs. With access to chicken feed & roost under the chicken house the ducks did well. I started gathering up the eggs & sold them in my dads small store. Country people would buy every one I had for sell.
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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.
The dog and geese are each protectors. Geese have been used on military bases over sees as "watchdogs" so I've read.
Haven't had Duck eggs. Heard they're very good, and much better than chicken. Want some fine quality chicken eggs that are fresh, visit an Amish settlement, and buy them there.
Quail eggs are the schiznit! Eaten many a raw quail egg at sushi joints, and wish I could find one locally that served them. When I asked one sushi chef where he got their quail eggs, his reply: "Quail". Duh, I'm a dumbarse!
I really love pickled quail eggs too. It's a lot of work to boil and peel them though.
Almost forgot the pickled quail eggs. Bought a jar, somewhere...can't recall where, of Cajun pickled quail eggs. My God they were good, and I wished I'd bought a case of them!
I grew up on duck eggs. The chicken eggs we sold. The ducks pretty much had a free run of the yard and were grain fed and they were great. As Terry said...we had to watch the hawks, but it was the owls that were the real problem....sneaky bastids!
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We eat organic in our house, we just have to shoot and gut it first.....
As Terry said...we had to watch the hawks, but it was the owls that were the real problem....sneaky bastids!
Add in coons, foxes, coyotes and possums and mink. Protecting my ducks was why I got my first Great Pyrenees dog. I have not had any fowl in a few years but since I am retired, I may start back. miles
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