What is the fate of your ducks?

[Jennn27]

This is funny because Adam always picks at me about eating my "babies".

Nope. Not happening. lol Ours are definitely pets. In fact, I told him our chickens we have now are official egg-layers, and any babies they may have can go as either layers or meat. But our ducks?? Nope...we will not, I repeat, will NOT be eating my ducks!!

**we need some duck emoticons. lol

 

[Jennn27]

thanks Kathy farms he is a pretty boy I am not a good farmer ha. I could be a vegetarian very easy. here is a picture of him. they say if you are going to eat it don't name it mine have all names.

OMG....he is gorgeous!!! I want one!!

 

[RuzichFamily]

I have both ducks that I will eat and some that are ornamental. Eventually all the pekins get ate. My mandarins and call ducks are just for looking at tho.

 

[Kathy farms]

This is funny because Adam always picks at me about eating my "babies".

Nope. Not happening. lol Ours are definitely pets. In fact, I told him our chickens we have now are official egg-layers, and any babies they may have can go as either layers or meat. But our ducks?? Nope...we will not, I repeat, will NOT be eating my ducks!!

**we need some duck emoticons. lol

Is the consideration not to eat them be extended to any future offspring?

 

[Kathy farms]

I have both ducks that I will eat and some that are ornamental. Eventually all the pekins get ate. My mandarins and call ducks are just for looking at tho.

Why does the pekins get called out?

 

[RuzichFamily]

Why does the pekins get called out?

The only reason I raise pekins is for meat. They are the only ones I can buy locally without special ordering so they're cheap, they get big and have great flavor, and they aren't pretty enough to keep around just to watch them. Thats what the calls and mandarins are for.

 

[buff goose guy]

i really like this thread reading all the views

i too have mine as pets but also for eggs, and its hard to even give up the eggs knowing that some of them could be potential babies

 

[Jennn27]

Is the consideration not to eat them be extended to any future offspring?

Yes....yes it does. Lol. I don't even like duck...honestly. I told him that if we become overrun with ducks, we'll sell them.

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Our first 2 ducks Ettie and Tella we got for free from a co-worker of my wife.

They got to be pets.

Our next 11 ducks - Snow, Tevye, Kaine, Pocahontas, Greta, Roxette, Dove, Entie, Ebony, Belle, Natasha we ordered from Metzer.

Natasha was a mis-pick on Metzer's part and we took her to our local feed store and she is someone else's pet (we have heard she is doing great...) Ebony and Belle, unfortunately were lost in a raccoon attack and we tightened up our security. The rest are all pets.

Our next two ducks, Rhiannan and No Name were sent from Metzers to fix the mis-pick.

No Name went to the feed store and found new parents there and Rhiannon became a pet.

Our next two ducks, Noir and Mystique. We ordered from Metzer a bit later to replace the two that had been taken from us by the raccoons.

They became pets.

Occasionally (maybe every other year) we get an additional duck from Wal*mart.

Not a pet.

We have nothing morally against raising ducks for meat but it would be very hard to do at the same time as having ducks for pets. I could have a dozen Pekins and not be able to tell them apart and let them have babies that I still couldn't tell apart and eat eggs and ducks and sell eggs and ducks and I would be fine with that. But I couldn't have my flock, my babies, then in a separate cage have the "doomed" duck(s) for the fridge.

 

[Tevyes Dad]

This is funny because Adam always picks at me about eating my "babies".

Nope. Not happening. lol Ours are definitely pets. In fact, I told him our chickens we have now are official egg-layers, and any babies they may have can go as either layers or meat. But our ducks?? Nope...we will not, I repeat, will NOT be eating my ducks!!

**we need some duck emoticons. lol

I bet if some talented person in our forum came up with the appropriate sized images (no stealing copyrighted images), they could get them to an administrator and they would put them up... I can't draw at all, but I could help making an animated .gif if someone had the pictures