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Heck ya. They are delicious, better than rabbit for small homestead and more fat, which is why you can’t live on rabbit. They clean fast too, just skin them. Plucking is a thing I have never understood how people justify that much time… duck can be served in all sorts of ways, but duck breast cooks up like a good filet mignon.
I have a homemade chicken plucker, works great. Takes me about 4 minutes per bird, from kill to in the ice water. Thinking about a drill attachment for ducks because you can’t scald them. What breed of duck do you do? We have some silver appleyards that are still young.
Oh, I scalded 10 ducks on Sunday. My chicken plucker did most of the work.
For duck, you want to time the kill for right before molting. The plucking goes better.
Care to share a picture of that plucker?
55 gal food grade barrel cut in half on a frame with a motor geared down underneath that spins the bottom plate. And I used the actual poultry rubber fingers for the drum and bottom plate. I’ll try to remember to get a picture tomorrow
Swedish we’re ok, Pekins better but dumb, the silvers are good usually. A few mixed breeds we had were good, the best was the buff. Big, good tendencies, fast growing.
Thought about Perkins just for food. I’ll check out the buffs. Thanks
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