Author Topic: Muscovy Ducks (Read 750 times)

nineworlds9 · « **on:** June 20, 2013, 08:22:00 PM »

Anyone out there ever shoot one? hunt them? eat one? We have so many here in Florida and they are invasive. I've had thoughts of making a little duck liver pâté'...

eflanders · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2013, 09:16:00 PM »

Here in WI the Muscovy ducks are raised by lots of poultry farmers for their meat.

nineworlds9 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2013, 09:41:00 PM »

Yeah I was reading that they raise em and eat em in central america where they come from. Here in FL it's basically open season on em as long as they're "wild". I'm thinking why not? Peking Duck with plum sauce? They're huge so it'd be a lot of meat.

Cocklebur · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2013, 09:41:00 PM »

My Dad raised some when I was a kid. We didn't like them at all, they weren't in the same class as a Mallard or the white ducks. When they run wild they multiply real fast.

nineworlds9 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2013, 09:47:00 PM »

Yeah? Not so tasty? I figure I could just deep fry em, haha

DEATHMASTER · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2013, 10:26:00 PM »

I raise them and butcher in fall. Great tasting bird. Save the grease for fried eggs.

ksbowman · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2013, 10:54:00 PM »

We had some for a while and they started eating the siding off the house. I wish I'd shot them, they caused me alot of work. Wife sold them and agreed we wouldn't get anymore of them.

nineworlds9 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2013, 10:58:00 PM »

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Originally posted by DEATHMASTER:
I raise them and butcher in fall. Great tasting bird. Save the grease for fried eggs.

Ok this idea of mine sounds promising now. I only wonder if it's safe to eat the wild ones around here? Wonder where they've been eating..should I be anymore concerned about pollutants and parasites than say eating wild caught fish?

Brianlocal3 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2013, 07:53:00 AM »

Nine,
Go shoot some and eat them!!!! Try them fried, grilled , smoked , baked. You WILL find a way you like them.

I was raised eating stuff these city boys in St. Louis run from. If I can eat racoon, possum, ground hog, carp , gar, and other critters you can eat that duck.

Heck we have a 25 day limit on coots and I'll fill up as much of them as I can

gringol · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2013, 07:56:00 AM »

Definitely shoot some, just don't do it in a park.

nineworlds9 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2013, 08:32:00 AM »

Cool beans guys. I love roast duck. No, I won't shoot them in a park! Though I wish I could hahaha. It would be limited to my own property, friends' property, or public land/WMA.

Hoyt · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2013, 10:30:00 AM »

I lived on a lake in fl. and they were all around the lake. Would mess all over the dock, porch, yard, everywhere. I didn't want to eat them..too ugly, but did fix up an arrow to run them off. I forgot what I used, but it ended up about like a golfball looking point..would just bounce off of them.

Would sick my dog on them sometimes also..he would catch them in the air as they took off..but I wouldn't let him kill one so he got tired of it..they won.

gringol · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2013, 10:37:00 AM »

I've never seen one in a wma. They seem to prefer lawns and parks.

awbowman · « **Reply #13 on:** June 21, 2013, 01:47:00 PM »

If they are older, you may want to cook them in a pressure cooker for a while to tenderize them

Stone Knife · « **Reply #14 on:** June 21, 2013, 01:51:00 PM »

Make soup out of them or dog food or even fertilizer if they are that bad.

The Vanilla Gorilla · « **Reply #15 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:00:00 PM »

I have a few in my backyard. Not really as pets but they clean up the spilled grain my pigeons drop. I don't care much for the taste of large ducks really but their eggs are the best thing ever!

JamesV · « **Reply #16 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:37:00 PM »

My neighbor has dozens of those nasty birds that like to nest in my shop and crap all over everything, fly up on the shelves and nock things of, especially bows that I keep on a rack. After the cur dogs killed a few and I shot a few they seem to have found another nesting place. I don't have a problem with the dozen or so guinnies that visit my yard everyday. The dogs can't catch them and I don't shoot them.

nineworlds9 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 21, 2013, 03:57:00 PM »

Keep the comments and ideas coming. This thread helps brighten my day lol

Doc Nock · « **Reply #18 on:** June 21, 2013, 04:10:00 PM »

As several have said, many poultry shops and stands at local markets sell Muckscumbie ducks (our term).

I had one once that I cooked just 10 minutes shy of forever...and it was still tough...butcher replaced it and that one, one's prior and since, were quite palatable!

However, in the wild, when they cross breed with wild ducks, the have some offspring that are the most hideous things on God's earth!

Course, yer not going to marry one, just whack it and eat it...once skinned, looks mean little...Ask a Moose!


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