Waterfowl for Meat Production Thread - Ducks, Geese, and Muscovies

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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.
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.
 
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 weighed both drakes together. They were almost 5 pounds together, including backs and necks for soup. A little over 7 pounds live weight. They are not big in the breast meat department, pekins are meatier. You would do better with one 7 pound bird dressing out to the same five pounds, these guys will have twice as many bones! It is comparable to eating a layer breed cockerel, I would say. They have less fat than pekins.
 

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