Who has ate a goose? Good eats?

[Kristina]

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Have you tried muscovy? They have much leaner meat. Not so much fat and grease to em....I cook ours in the slow cooker and it dissapears FAST around our house!

 

[miss_thenorth]

man-- you guys type fast-- in the time it took me to wirte my previous post--- 6 ppl beat me to it.

I don't like wild duck, but goose is great!!!!!

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

it was supermarket duck. I live next to a bunch of farms. I will start asking around and hopefully someone might have muscovy

 

[Kristina]

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Geese are very easy to raise and with handling will become very tame and spoiled! We recently just sent ours to live on a farm with some friends but we loved every minute of having them.

 

[crazychickens]

I'll order Embden like Kristina had.

MM catalog says expect a weight of 20 pounds. That sounds big, But I'll try it.

Did someone say cook it in a bag, good idea.

 

[Kristina]

The embdens are really nice....We hatched one of their babies before we sent them to the farm and the baby is spoiled. I do suggest though that i fyou want them for eating that you don't make them pets. I find geese to very personable! The one we raised to eat we didn't socialize with much.

 

[crazychickens]

That part is going to be hard for me. I baby talk to my chickens, they prick up there heads and stare at me. Untill now I thought they liked it, but maybe they think, I crazy.

So what kind of shed did your sleep in, I have a 6 stall horse barn and I have no horse's. Do they sleep on the floor?

 

[Moonwalker]

Goose makes the best meal for Christmas or Thanksgiving! Just remember that they have a lot more fat so to let it drain while cooking, make sure you put a rack in the bottom of the pan and poke a couple holes under the wings and legs so the fat will drain.

 

[greyfields]

You'll never be able to go back to turkey after goose... especially if you know your charcuterrie.

 

[ksacres]

Ok, this may be a stupid question, nobody laugh! I've never been able to tell a male from a female goose, is there any simple answer? Other than waiting for one to, er, grab, the other?