What the heck to duck eggs taste like

[Wifezilla]

I would much rather have my neighbors own chickens than the yappy stupid dogs they DO have that bark all the time!

 

[Buster]

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I totally agree with you! Dogs that bark all day are in desperate need of extermination (since the penalties for shooting the owners are so much worse).

 

[Dances with Ducks]

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I wouldn't say the 5 ducks I had free ranging over my 1 1/4 acre is too many. Especially compared to the number of chickens that shared the area with them. I think actually that the water they use stinks worse because they use it both to eat with (ducks prefer to wet down their food) and also they use it to poop in. They like to throw water everywhere so it's impossible to keep the area where their water is dry so if you water them inside a pen instead of outside in the open, the pen gets nasty fast.

I wouldn't say that's too many either, up till last month my five were roaming less than 1/4 acre! I put water in two buckets and the buckets move around every day but are usually 10 - 15 ft from the food, so maybe that's it. Also I rinse and change each bucket twice a day, and scrub it out if it won't rinse clean which isn't very often. They also have a baby pool of water whenever the hose isn't frozen. I drain the water through a hose to the far side of the yard, and that water is changed everyday too.
A fox has been coming in the yard since January so we are going to have to restrict them to a pen most of the time. I worry we may start having some of these problems as a result.

 

[ChickenToes]

My ducks are penned. And yes, last summer the smell was unreal. So we started putting a layer of wood chips and bark into the run whenever it started to smell. It works perfectly, you can't smell a thing. This spring I'll rake it all out and compost it.

 

[Wifezilla]

Pine shavings really do help.

 

[streemers]

i had only had chicken eggs until last year when i got some adult ducks off of CL. since then i have bought 2dz eggs from the store because my girls quit laying for a few weeks. i will never buy store bought eggs again after being spoiled by my ducks yummy eggs. if i must buy eggs they will be farm eggs. My ducks do eat fish every few weeks but i have never tasted them in the eggs. to me they taste just like chicken but are bigger and the yoke is a little richer.

 

[DuckLady]

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TL- You just may be a genius!

Nah, just a lot of experience.
But thanks anyway.

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Our Welsh Harlequins free range and lay on a daily basis. We eat the eggs, and especially love baking with them (they are so much better than chicken eggs when used in baked goods, IMHO).

Hubby loves them fried and calls them "the Steak" of eggs. He won't touch a store-bought egg, and says duck eggs make the BEST egg sandwiches.