Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

Merry Christmas my Chicken friends

 

[robyn8]

My sweet little injured pullet laid our first egg today in her hospital cage! She must not be too stressed out in there.

 

[Folly's place]

Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Mary

 

[lovechicks1293]

My sweet little injured pullet laid our first egg today in her hospital cage! She must not be too stressed out in there.

 

[rachelsflock]

I know I don't usually participate too much on here, but I'm so happy today. I just finished this year's duck cull. Down to two muscovy drakes and two khaki drakes. Too bad they aren't as easy as roosters!

 

[aart]

I know I don't usually participate too much on here, but I'm so happy today. I just finished this year's duck cull. Down to two muscovy drakes and two khaki drakes. Too bad they aren't as easy as roosters!

Congrats...slaughtering is a hard job.

 

[troyer]

I know I don't usually participate too much on here, but I'm so happy today. I just finished this year's duck cull. Down to two muscovy drakes and two khaki drakes. Too bad they aren't as easy as roosters!

It's easier to have drakes only as they aren't reproducing almost like mice! You might have kept some khaki females to make mule ducks.

 

[rachelsflock]

I could, but there's something special about the non-hybrid muscovies. They're my beef cows, and I love it how they almost act like geese. Plus, the khakis have never gone broody and I've had various flocks of khakis for years now and who would raise those sloppy ducklings? It is definitely hard to do all the ducks myself while the hubby watches the one and three year old and keeps them out of the way though. Today the three year old broke into the kitchen while I was plucking and started shouting instructions on how to remove "dirty feathers" (waxed) from the meat on the wing I was working on. Next I got a lecture on why I should not put duck feet on the duck meat (I hadn't cut the feet off and since there are no footless duck breeds yet...). Then I started eviscerating the duck I was working on and he got to asking why he could not eat "guts". That was when Daddy caught up with him. No, he's not quite ready to help, but he's the perfect age to supervise and interfere. I'm glad he's not afraid of where his meat comes from but he might be a little too familiar. I'm working on keeping him thinking in the right direction. He'd be absolutely crushed if he had to watch a killing though. He loves his ducks. At least I've got a full freezer and I'm done until next year, 35 days and 8-16 weeks after the girls get the clutches going again. He'll be bigger then.

 

[troyer]

I could, but there's something special about the non-hybrid muscovies. They're my beef cows, and I love it how they almost act like geese. Plus, the khakis have never gone broody and I've had various flocks of khakis for years now and who would raise those sloppy ducklings? It is definitely hard to do all the ducks myself while the hubby watches the one and three year old and keeps them out of the way though. Today the three year old broke into the kitchen while I was plucking and started shouting instructions on how to remove "dirty feathers" (waxed) from the meat on the wing I was working on. Next I got a lecture on why I should not put duck feet on the duck meat (I hadn't cut the feet off and since there are no footless duck breeds yet...). Then I started eviscerating the duck I was working on and he got to asking why he could not eat "guts". That was when Daddy caught up with him. No, he's not quite ready to help, but he's the perfect age to supervise and interfere. I'm glad he's not afraid of where his meat comes from but he might be a little too familiar. I'm working on keeping him thinking in the right direction. He'd be absolutely crushed if he had to watch a killing though. He loves his ducks. At least I've got a full freezer and I'm done until next year, 35 days and 8-16 weeks after the girls get the clutches going again. He'll be bigger then.

I like it that you are training your young one as you go. I like muscovy meat and used to have muscovies several years ago, I also had some runner duck females. I allowed one of the runner females to hatch some eggs when bred to the muscovy males. She produced some very unique offspring, enough so that I would like to try it again sometime. I would also like to try it the other way around. Muscovy female x one of the other breeds, probably one of the meatier ones.

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