The Quack Shack

[duluthralphie]

A good read.. I hope ya’ll love it

 

[Pyxis]

Whatchu laughing at Cletus?

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You're a bad influence! I've been stalking CL all durn day. I'll have you know, only 2 of those stars are chickens.

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I've got a purebred Dane puppy living with me at the moment. 6 months old and over 90 pounds. The big dork belongs to my brother.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

A good read.. I hope ya’ll love it

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Okay I have a serious question for you, do you process any of ducks you hunt? I feel like our processing is very wasteful

 

[Pyxis]

I've got two Liege Fighters out and more on the way! All the other eggs are pipped or zipping aside from one.

These two that are out right now are both black. Black birchen, most likely.

 

[duluthralphie]

Okay I have a serious question for you, do you process any of ducks you hunt? I feel like our processing is very wasteful

I normally bury the survivors...

 

[duluthralphie]

Okay I have a serious question for you, do you process any of ducks you hunt? I feel like our processing is very wasteful

What’s to waste?
The only thing I can think of is waxing versus skinning.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

What’s to waste?
The only thing I can think of is waxing versus skinning.

Basicly everyones told us that its easier to just skin, take the breasts and legs and chuck the rest. But surely there's more meat then that on an adult bird

 

[Trimurtisan]

I've got a purebred Dane puppy living with me at the moment. 6 months old and over 90 pounds. The big dork belongs to my brother.

Toss up a picture of the Dork! Help be my gentle giant enabler.

 

[Pyxis]

Toss up a picture of the Dork! Help be my gentle giant enabler.

Turns out I don't have any really recent pictures of him! I'll have to get one.

Holding still for pictures isn't something he's great at, lol.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Basicly everyones told us that its easier to just skin, take the breasts and legs and chuck the rest. But surely there's more meat then that on an adult bird

Okay, I'm not up to date on duck anatomy, but I'd say yes you are wasting goodies. In general I'd imagine their muscular structure to be close to a chicken. I've stripped many chicken carcasses clean.

Working in a smokehouse was where I probably stripped the most. People tend to skip over back muscles, and necks. It's a bit of a pita to clean, but there is a decent amount of meat there if you're dressing multiple birds. I normally just toss something like that in a chicken salad or on a greens salad because it'll be shredded already.

Then the carcass itself is very valuable. In my opinion you can't get a better soup stock than when using everything. Bones, cartilage, tendons, connective tissues in general. Bone stock is super healthy for you too. I stripped a rotisserie chicken yesterday for chx salad and saved everything that was not muscle tissue. Today I'll toss it in a stock pot with some veggies and seasonings to cook for a few hours.