Raising Mule Ducks for Meat - My Journal

[nao57]

OH!

I forgot to ask also...will geese mounting ducks also make infertile mules? Or will you just get nothing, except maybe dead ducks that didn't survive mounting?

 

[Jpat]

OH!

I forgot to ask also...will geese mounting ducks also make infertile mules? Or will you just get nothing, except maybe dead ducks that didn't survive mounting?

Mabye dead ducks, Ducks and geese cant make offspring

 

[Isaac 0]

OH!

I forgot to ask also...will geese mounting ducks also make infertile mules? Or will you just get nothing, except maybe dead ducks that didn't survive mounting?

You'd get dead ducks.

 

[Mylied]

I'm confused.

It sounds like one of you said that the females will drop eggs but be infertile. And then it sounds like the next person said they won't drop eggs?

Can you clarify?

Sorry, I'm sort of not used to the terms and also new to ducks.

Everything I read online said mule (muscovy drake/peking hen) females will not lay eggs as they do not have functioning parts, which is why they grow at the same rate as the males. Hinny (pekin drake/muscovy hen) females will lay infertile eggs and be smaller than the males. Since this is my first time and I have no adults, I can't tell you from personal experience. I can not tell male or female with mine. I didn't attempt to vent sex them since it doesn't really matter in my situation. There is a range of size but it's corresponded to their hatch days. The first to hatch was a little bigger down to the last to hatch a few days later. I might grow a couple out to maturity to see for myself what happens.

I didn't see a penis or testicles in this one and it was the biggest/first to hatch. It had unique coloring so that's how I know it was first.

 

[Mylied]

The female offspring no matter which breed was the drake/hen, will lay eggs once mature but wont be fertile.
What kind of defeatherer did you use? Very nice job!

It was the yardbird plucker. It worked great. Everyone said add dawn soap so I put it in the scalding water, to cut their oil.

 

[Mylied]

And wow that meat looks good.

I've heard some people who do butchery of rabbits say that whether or not it tastes good depends on if you drain the blood or not. Is that also true for ducks? And can you comment about this? (I don't know if either is true, but it sounds interesting.)

For example, most of my life I hated cabbage, and then someone told me the real way to eat cabbage is to barbecue it like in Korean Barbecue, or grill it, etc and that's where it shines. (This turned out to be true. You grill cabbage and have it with meat or rice and its a blast.)

No clue. I do drain blood because I was taught to. I was told it won't taste as good if you don't. This was my first ever processed duck and first time I've cooked duck.

The male haa testies toward its back too

If they look like chicken testicles, it didn't have any. It was very young though and I know they start off very small in chickens but I didn't see anything that looked like testicles.

Share your recipe if you dont mine! it looks amazing

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015833-roast-duck-with-orange-and-ginger

OH!

I forgot to ask also...will geese mounting ducks also make infertile mules? Or will you just get nothing, except maybe dead ducks that didn't survive mounting?

I don't have geese so hopefully the others helped you out with that. I'll have to keep in mind not to keep any future geese with my ducks.

 

[Jpat]

No clue. I do drain blood because I was taught to. I was told it won't taste as good if you don't. This was my first ever processed duck and first time I've cooked duck.



If they look like chicken testicles, it didn't have any. It was very young though and I know they start off very small in chickens but I didn't see anything that looked like testicles.



https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015833-roast-duck-with-orange-and-ginger


I don't have geese so hopefully the others helped you out with that. I'll have to keep in mind not to keep any future geese with my ducks.

Thanl you!

 

[Mylied]

@nao57. Here's a brief article on mules and hinnies. https://www.metzerfarms.com/MuleDucks.cfm There are more scientific studies out there if you want to dig deeper.

 

[BlackArtCreations]

It was the yardbird plucker. It worked great. Everyone said add dawn soap so I put it in the scalding water, to cut their oil.View attachment 2078255

Thanks! I pluck by hand and am very tired of it!

 

[Mylied]

Thanks! I pluck by hand and am very tired of it!

I've just skinned except when I do turkeys. Then I hand pluck. I hate it. So I love my new plucker. It's pretty big too. I think I could fit a turkey in it.