Such practical duck owners.

[grandma duck]

We love ducks (and geese). We eat chicken and we eat turkey. We don't raise them, though. I don't think I could ever eat a duck. I know. I know...people raise them for meat. Ish! Being from a ranching family, I fail at raising our own meat.

We raised six geese and two ducks. Barnyard pets. I went to Costa Rica with my mom and called home after a few days. Seems "Lunchie" goose was sick. Hubby had taken her to the vet. Along with medication, Hubby carried Lunchie upstairs to the Master bathroom, spread 1/2 bale of straw on the floor and ran a hot shower for hours to humidify the room. Good Hubby!

Lunchie recovered, Hubby paid the vet and cleaned up the mess before I got home.

(Ever see a vet put a goose on an IV?? Great vet!)
We never ate a goose.
Toulousie Goose lived 21 years.

(It must be genetic. My granddaughter had a pet rat that got sick. My paramedic daughter gave it oxygen and rushed it to the vet. Ran up a $600 vet bill trying to save a rat!

My Pekin hen is 5 days from hatch-day. My first hatching. We may have 14 pets.
I'll just eat duck eggs and enjoy the quackers.

 

[PetesMom]

We love ducks (and geese). We eat chicken and we eat turkey. We don't raise them, though. I don't think I could ever eat a duck. I know. I know...people raise them for meat. Ish! Being from a ranching family, I fail at raising our own meat.

We raised six geese and two ducks. Barnyard pets. I went to Costa Rica with my mom and called home after a few days. Seems "Lunchie" goose was sick. Hubby had taken her to the vet. Along with medication, Hubby carried Lunchie upstairs to the Master bathroom, spread 1/2 bale of straw on the floor and ran a hot shower for hours to humidify the room. Good Hubby!

Lunchie recovered, Hubby paid the vet and cleaned up the mess before I got home.

(Ever see a vet put a goose on an IV?? Great vet!)
We never ate a goose.
Toulousie Goose lived 21 years.

(It must be genetic. My granddaughter had a pet rat that got sick. My paramedic daughter gave it oxygen and rushed it to the vet. Ran up a $600 vet bill trying to save a rat!

My Pekin hen is 5 days from hatch-day. My first hatching. We may have 14 pets.
I'll just eat duck eggs and enjoy the quackers.

I'm with you on that lmao I once had this thought of raising meat rabbits (have 2 flemishes) for dog food....but alas, that thought didn't last long lmao Also raising scovies for meat....I just wouldn't be able to bring myself to it {{{sigh....I fail at a meat raising rancher}}} LMAO and I've grown up on farms!

 

[nickie]

Lol, I don't eat duck either. They're just my yard happy I mean yard art. Waterfowl people ate a different kind...

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I don't/can't eat duck. I just can't. Even other people's ducks. I can't eat those either. Nope.

Everything else.. I can eat. lol.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Welcome to BYC Grandma.

 

[Scovy Momma]

I have raised animals for the meat but that was on our dairy farm growing up & in 4H & Ag. Never could eat something I named,though. Haven't really had the time or money to do it since moving out. I was entertaining the idea of raising rabbits for dog food because my dogs eat raw,but the boyfriend at the time looked at me like I wanted to visit the orphanage to pick out a baby for dinner.

I'm with you though on the spending money at the vet. I have a great office I go to. I take in rescues so it seems I'm always taking someone to the vet with some kind of problem. Nothing's too good for my kids!

I've had a ferret on chemotherapy,a baby guinea pig that needed hundred's of dollars in subcutaneus injections,my basset needed liver surgery before she was a year old when I got her,my chihuahua needed dental surgery at a few weeks old. My turtle needs steroid injections & the baby turtle is recovering from pnemonia. Just recently took the same chihuahua in because he ate marijuana at the park. (The vet did a urine drug test on him)
Most of this stuff the vet will teach me to do on my own at home,but it still runs up the bill

So needless to say:

 

[MallardDuckling]

I think the only way I would ever eat duck was if they made duck jerky. I probably would think about my duckies at home before I ate it too

Though, I really do love jerky...it's hard to pass up.

I could eat eggs of any kind, though I'm not a big egg person....and I want to raise chickens for eggs

I've helped raise cattle and pigs for meat, but I could barely do it. I get so attatched to animals so easily is my problem. I'd gladly make anything that was suppose to be dinner a pet.

 

[grandma duck]

Years ago, I taught a Cambodian student and helped get some of his family out of a refugee camp. Took a couple of years. This boy's family was so grateful they wanted to show appreciation and "honor" me. They brought me what in Cambodia would be a very honorable gift - a smoked duck! Feet, bill, and all. Naked! Not wrapped. (It's bill was twisted into a Daffy Duck expression.)

I tried to maintain dignified composure, and I hope they thought I was just in awe of the honorable "gift". I was in awe all right! It sat in our freezer because we didn't know what to do with it. We couldn't eat it, for duck's sake. LOL.

 

[Scovy Momma]

That's a great story!

I guess I do have to admit that I like roast duck,though,as long as I didn't know it personally

 

[Going Quackers]

I don't get personal with my food.ever.