what to do with duck eggs?

[myfowlfriends]

She is a pekin

 

[theduckgirl4110]

I haven' gotten any eggs yet, but since my ducks are for PETS ONLY I plan on cooking them hard-boiled and giving them right back to the ducks.

 

[wafflechicken]

Thanks everyone, I knew there was a difference but I didn't know of all these specialties they're good for. i will try making deviled eggs with them today and not telling the rest of my family they were Ophie's lol. Thank you all.

Oooh I bet deviled duck eggs would be BRILLIANT!

Wait are Pekin's layers? I thought they were meat ducks? Still, she really is an absolutely stunning girl. Lucky you!

I haven' gotten any eggs yet, but since my ducks are for PETS ONLY I plan on cooking them hard-boiled and giving them right back to the ducks.

Oh and I bet they love you for that. Seems to me there are few things birds like more than their own eggs cooked up.

(I read that back and realized that might have sounded like I was being sarcastic. I wasn't, they really do think it's the best treat ever.)

 

[inkedlady]

Duck eggs r nicer than chicken eggs can't wait till my girls start Layin

 

[emma123marie]

Our Pekin duck lays an egg every single day. We LOVE them and never buy chicken eggs from the store. We use our duck eggs for everything fatrom baking to breakfast. They're not greasy, but people say eating a goose is greasy. Maybe that's what your Uncle was thinking of.
Best of Luck. Our duck is our baby and we don't feel weird about eating her egg. She doesn't want to sit on it so it's her gift to her family (us).

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Whoa she's beautiful. Crafters like to buy blown out duck eggs. They paint them and its beautiful. People also buy chicken. And duck feathers too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Our Pekin duck lays an egg every single day. We LOVE them and never buy chicken eggs from the store. We use our duck eggs for everything fatrom baking to breakfast. They're not greasy, but people say eating a goose is greasy. Maybe that's what your Uncle was thinking of.
Best of Luck. Our duck is our baby and we don't feel weird about eating her egg. She doesn't want to sit on it so it's her gift to her family (us).

eating a goose maybe greasy but their eggs are just like a giant chicken egg and make the best omelets. and duck eggs are wonderful for baking and make great egg salad too.

 

[wafflechicken]

eating a goose maybe greasy but their eggs are just like a giant chicken egg and make the best omelets. and duck eggs are wonderful for baking and make great egg salad too.

Oh I agree so much about the goose eggs. Wow. Store eggs are to home chicken eggs are to home duck eggs are to goose eggs. I've said before though - the trick is finding a recipe divisible by three since one goose egg is 3 chicken/duck ones. I always make sure to steal some and scramble and freeze for winter baking.

If anyone is interested I will relate my goose-eating experience. While I'm pretty sure (based on the serious lobes of fat and stuff on their chest and bellies) they are fatty, I suspect the "greasiness" comes from not actually preparing them right.

Score, render, etc. I think I can get them to baste themselves nicely and still drip and render fat that I will keep for confit and frying potatoes and other stuff. This is my hope. I could be totally delusional on this having never done it.

I'll know for sure in late September.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh I agree so much about the goose eggs. Wow. Store eggs are to home chicken eggs are to home duck eggs are to goose eggs. I've said before though - the trick is finding a recipe divisible by three since one goose egg is 3 chicken/duck ones. I always make sure to steal some and scramble and freeze for winter baking.

If anyone is interested I will relate my goose-eating experience. While I'm pretty sure (based on the serious lobes of fat and stuff on their chest and bellies) they are fatty, I suspect the "greasiness" comes from not actually preparing them right.

Score, render, etc. I think I can get them to baste themselves nicely and still drip and render fat that I will keep for confit and frying potatoes and other stuff. This is my hope. I could be totally delusional on this having never done it.

I'll know for sure in late September.

Do you have The Book of Geese? in the back of the book they have quite a few recipes for using goose eggs and cooking goose. I have never eaten goose or duck. even though I have them both. I do like their eggs though.

 

[chickery-do]

I have a cheesecake recipe that is to die for! And it's just so easy to make that I volunteer to bake one when needed. But I don't tell them how easy it is lol
So anyway, I don't want to mess my recipe up, this is going to be the 1st x I use duck eggs for baking (since I never had girls before) pss (these girls were not bought from Tractor S.!!)
My Pekin's lay eggs that are 4.6 +/- and my hens lay eggs arnd 3.3 to 3.11. The recipe calls for 4 chicken eggs and that's what I do, but would I use the same 4 duck eggs since their soo much bigger than any chicken eggs I've ever seen? This is not a cheap recipe, not to expensive but not something I'd make just to give to a stranger. Plus it's 5 " tall in a 10" spring form pan. I hope to make it tomorrow if the weather stays cool and wet!
I never got to eat one of my gooses egg's. They were Sebastopol''s and I wanted the baby's more than I wanted to waste an egg on me lol!

Now I have a new hobby, intead of the geese, which the boys hated. Only cuz Rag's Ragland hated them even more I have Angora rabbits to take their place! Chaz, my German/French/Giant at 16 weeks
My toast the other day! I guess they do multiply lol!


My Lilac point French Angora
Puddle Duck, named by my sil who is fighting small cell cancer, which is treatable but not cureable. Tumors keep popping up all the time! And B. Potter was her fav. author and she made her daughters room totally pot head once the grandkids came along! She was so happy, she can't wait to be able to come over a watch her pay in the pool. It's one thing on the tablet but 100xs better in real life! I've brought over my new babies to meet her but with her port and puddles claws and skiddishness, I would never take Her anywhere! lol, it's puddles loss!