Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[yinepu]

Tadpoles aren't fish. Minnows I'll give you, in a pan, but in a stream or a pond with silt and dark water, my money's on the minnow every time.

REALLY?? tadpoles aren't fish??? .. say it ain't so!

2000 gallon pond.. 3 ducks...

the fish lost


now unless you know what else took them that has feathers, webbed feet and quacks

cause I caught them red-handed.. when it looks like a duck.. and quacks like a duck.. and is caught with a goldfish tail flapping out of it's bill..................


and btw.. I wouldn't trust wikipedia since anyone can edit it.. I'll trust my eyes tyvm

 

[Weirdness555]

I'm not saying they wouldn't eat a fish, just that it's not their staple. Even goldfish to be honest are at a huge disadvantage, being gold an' all. I would still bet that wild ducks in water with wild native fish wouldn't get a lot of them. Plus, who goes on wikipedia editing articles about duck feeding habits? When they make these rules about sources, they forget that there has to be a reason for a source not to be valid. I have found that generally wikipedia is usually right, and that is just a rumour spread by teachers to get kids to work harder on homework

 

[RachaelS]

Here's a decent link

http://birding.about.com/od/birdfeeders/a/What-Do-Ducks-Eat.htm

 

[yinepu]

I'm not saying they wouldn't eat a fish, just that it's not their staple. Even goldfish to be honest are at a huge disadvantage, being gold an' all. I would still bet that wild ducks in water with wild native fish wouldn't get a lot of them. Plus, who goes on wikipedia editing articles about duck feeding habits? When they make these rules about sources, they forget that there has to be a reason for a source not to be valid. I have found that generally wikipedia is usually right, and that is just a rumour spread by teachers to get kids to work harder on homework

you've never dealt with Discordians then... lol NO wikipedia topics are safe from their "editing skills"

Where did I state that fish were their staple?????.. I only mentioned that ducks who eat from ponds where they DO eat fish tend to have stronger tasting eggs than ducks who eat chicken feed...

Duck eggs are more rich from the extra fat in the egg.. the richness doesn't make them taste "strong".. Really good Bakers prefer duck eggs since the extra fat makes baked goods turn out better.. if they had a "strong taste" then it would affect the flavor adversely.. and they wouldn't prefer them over chicken eggs

.. as for the taste.. a "STRONG" tasting duck egg compared to one that isn't strong tasting is like comparing really "gamey" meat with storebought


the feed the ducks and geese eat affects the taste of the eggs.. just as chickens who are raised free range have different tasting eggs than battery cage hens..

 

[yinepu]

Here's a decent link

http://birding.about.com/od/birdfeeders/a/What-Do-Ducks-Eat.htm

 

[Weirdness555]

But is it the fish or the protein that make the difference? My point is that if they eat, one fish a month or something, it wouldn't have a big impact on their eggs. They would have to regularly eat a reasonable amount of fish for it to affect their eggs so that we could taste it.

I'm still not clear on the difference exactly :/ I think I might mean strong tasting. Like I said it may have just been the ones I tried, but I didn't like the flavour.

 

[Weirdness555]

And the list of food on that site is pretty much the same as wikipedia - minus the fish part of course

 

[RachaelS]

I am not a duck breeder but I did look into it, after talking to some, they did say when ducks have access to a pond the eggs will taste "richer" than ducks that don't have access to a pond. Maybe something similar to wild caught catfish and farm raised. There is a distinct difference in taste, IMHO. I have eaten duck eggs from a friend that does not have a pond and to be honest, my family did not even realize it was a duck egg. I thought I could slightly tell the difference, but not sure if that was because I knew what it was.

 

[yinepu]

I am not a duck breeder but I did look into it, after talking to some, they did say when ducks have access to a pond the eggs will taste "richer" than ducks that don't have access to a pond. Maybe something similar to wild caught catfish and farm raised. There is a distinct difference in taste, IMHO. I have eaten duck eggs from a friend that does not have a pond and to be honest, my family did not even realize it was a duck egg. I thought I could slightly tell the difference, but not sure if that was because I knew what it was.

My mailman refuses to eat duck eggs. When he was in the service they had pekin ducks at a pond on post. They had on occasion eaten the eggs (freshly laid as their cook collected them daily) and he stated that they "tasted like a bad low tide smells at the bay.. dead things mixed with sewage"

If you've ever been at a bay at low tide during the summer you get a pretty good idea .. a really "bad" low tide smells just as he had described.. a bit different from tasting "rich".. lol
Granted his eggs were on the extreme end.. but I can't get him to taste a duck egg where the ducks were being fed chicken feed and grazing..

the texture of a duck egg is a bit different than a chicken egg.. the whites are also a bit more translucent when cooked than a chicken egg so if you have had both you can tell which is which just by looking at them once they are cooked or tasting and feeling the texture on your tongue..

 

[RachaelS]

the texture of a duck egg is a bit different than a chicken egg.. the whites are also a bit more translucent when cooked than a chicken egg so if you have had both you can tell which is which just by looking at them once they are cooked or tasting and feeling the texture on your tongue..

Yep, I noticed that on the whites. Only did it once, so was not sure if I was imagining it, LOL! I bet if I served them side by side (with chicken eggs) it would be a lot easier for the family to tell.