U_Stormcrow
Crossing the Road
Did you weigh them post processing for carcass yield??? I've only raised and processed Pekins, curious as to how the mixed breeds process out for comparison. Guessing its essentially the same, but would like to be surprised.I have recently sent a couple of my male ducks to the freezer camp. They were 8 weeks old, and 2 more are joining them this coming Tuesday (day before trash pick up here). They were mixed breed, that I hatched at the Easter hatch-a-long to try out my new incubator. Live weight ~3.5 pounds each. Ducks take a lot of time to pluck, so I skinned one. Ilove the taste of duck and am retired, so I spent most of a day on these guys. I would not keep them past this age, they eat like fiends! I kept my geese to 6 months when I had them, they are a Christmas tradition in our German family.