Raising Ducks for Meat and Eggs | Processing & Making Pate, Broth and Roast Duck
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- I raise two types of ducks here on my small farm - khaki campbells and muscovies. I love the eggs from both birds and I harvest ducks for meat from the muscovies. In todays video I take a look at management of these birds in addition to my processing of the bird for meat (just briefly).
I also show you how I roast duck, make duck broth and how to make a delicious dairy free duck liver pate!
Brandon Sheard has a series of videos showing how to process muscovy ducks - they are excellent - link to first in series is below.
How to Harvest a Muscovy Duck - Farmstead Meatsmith
• How to Harvest a Musco...
Recipe Links
Duck Confit (Roast Duck)
www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes...
Duck Liver Pate
www.paleopantry.org/dairy-free...
I altered the above recipe to use ingredients that I have here - such as brandy, duck fat and garlic paste!
Seeded Cracker Recipe
recipes.28bysamwood.com/recip...
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:32 Start of Day
0:57 Foraging
1:21 Cleaning duck houses
2:25 Eggs
4:09 Ducklings
4:56 Duck Processing
15:47 Making Broth
16:43 Roasting Duck
18:20 Broth Continues
18:54 How to make duck liver pate
21:46 Finishing the broth
21:54 Evening chores - putting the ducks in for the night
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When I was growing up, I helped my mother process chickens. We did all the plucking by hand, a tedious job. We never raised ducks so I have no experience at processing them. You certainly used every possible part. Enjoyed watching
Yes indeed it is a tedious job - my plucker for chickens works a treat!!
Pleased you enjoyed 😊
So many techniques, very nice video! Thank you very much from Uruguay!
Thank you so much! And thanks for watching 😊
What a wonderful video. Very calming. I sit here, on my farm, sipping coffee by the wood stove. Snowed a bit last night but spring is coming up here in Alberta,Canada...
We have sheep,cattle,goats,chickens,geese,turkeys and guinea.
We were thinking of getting ducks and now we def will.
Thank you❤
Wow you already have an impressive list of poultry - I’m sure ducks will fit perfectly into your farm! Sipping coffee by a fire - we’re not quite there yet but I also love that time of year! Enjoy the spring when it arrives and thanks for watching 😊
Dry pluck the ducks in the machine for double the time you do chickens. They have harder skin so they can withstand more time. You can then use a wax to get all the fine feathers out easier. Literally saves hours
By dry plucking you mean no scalding first?? The wax idea sounds great!
@@huttonsvalleypermaculture no you still scald them but when they go in the plucker run it for double the amount as chickens and don’t run any water through it as it goes. You can rinse the feathers off the machine between each use if it’s getting full
@Ammzie ok thanks - I’ll give that a try!
You have a lovely life Linda! Congrats ! 🥰
Thanks Johanna 😊
You read my mind! I was hoping to see more of your ducks. I am currently duckless, but may get more soon. We don't have foxes here, but devils and quolls, also eagles, have been problematic in the past.
Cleaning out their soggy pens is a backbreaking chore! Though one with benefits.
Using hay for bedding makes life very hard. It is long, heavy and packs together.
Straw is better by far. Shorter, fluffier and shiny. Much easier to fork out when wet.
I can buy large round bales of old, weathered straw from a local farmer for $20. That's about 300 kg of straw. The outside will usually be wet and halfway to compost already, great mulch for the garden.
But inside is still lovely bright golden loose straw for bedding. One bale would last you a very long time! It also has no weed seeds, and the ducks would eat the odd grains remaining in the straw.
I avoid straw as I have to buy from rural supplies place and I can’t guarantee that it’s not sprayed with glyphosate or some other chemical. Hay is my safer option!
There’s always something wanting to eat our birds!!
@@huttonsvalleypermaculture
I'm sure the foxes complain about you eating all their ducks!
@rubygray7749 🤣
I had chickens in B.C, Canada. Eagles would sit on fence posts and stare at chickens but never tried to eat them
@kellysmyth2337 my neighbour has had eagles take her chickens so I’m very wary of them - nice they only sat & watched yours 😊
I love the ducks Linda. I remember Mum and Dad having a flock of them when I was a small kid. I’d love to get a couple eventually, as they are great for eating the snails 🐌 Thanks for showing how you process them xx Cathi xx 😘
Ducks are great (although a little frustrating at times haha). You will have to get some - such personalities!! Thanks for watching Cathi - have a great week xx
Thank you! I have 🐔 and 🦆. We just processed some chickens for the 1st time. From watching how you used your duck, I've seen we could have made broth with what we threw away. Thank you for your video. It was very helpful. We still have more to process, so we will make stock next time!
The duck broth is amazing & so is the duck fat!! Make the chicken broth too but when you get around to processing some ducks the broth & fat are a must!!
Thanks Shonna!
I raised ducks as a child. And Oh! that roast duck! Still my favourite dinner.
Roast duck, duck broth, duck fat - all seriously delicious!!
Oh that was fabulously informative and lots to think about in regards to housing etc. I love that the KCs come when called😂😂😂 i'm tempted to just buy some livers and make some paté as well. Thanks Linda 😊
The pate is delicious!! Definitely do housing properly from the start and make it much bigger than you think you’ll need 👍
Garden shears for the bones
Great idea - thanks!! 😊
Love the video! You just got yourself a new subscriber. And I had no idea duck meat is that dark! I prefer dark meat so that is a big plus.
Hi Helen and welcome!! Yes the meat is quite dark. I'm still perfecting cooking it but the flavour is delicious and the wonderful duck fat would make the harvest worth it just for that!! Thanks for watching 😊
oh, great, now I'm hungry 🤤
There are special shears for poultry, might be worthwhile getting one if you harvest chickens and ducks on a regular basis. Otherwise I think, good (and new) secateurs should do the trick.
I did have secateurs for this but they snuck into the garden - will have to get more!
@@huttonsvalleypermaculture sneaky secateurs!!
@MartinaSchoppe 😆
Ty, i did enjoy your fantastic video.
Thanks so much for watching 😊
What a great video! Nothing wasted. I am about to put 8 duck eggs into the incubator for the first time.
Ducks are a bit of fun! My first 5 ducks came from the incubator - now the mums take care of it all. Good luck with your hatch and enjoy the future with ducks!!
Just this morning weve been going over our discussion and planning to get ducks here . We had khakis but mostly Muscovy for years and haven't gotten ourselves set up for them here yet . We have a lot of dingo , fox and roaming dog pressure but thankfully our dogs seem to be keeping them off our property for the most part. I really miss their sweet chatter ❤ yes, we found they get very particular about who is caring for them and even the time of day . Lol. What a shame that electric plucker didn't wirk better. I hope either your missing ducks are back or mr. Fox took a long walk in the other direction. Thank you for sharing your process, lovely ❤❤
Since starting to film that video I took 2 and the fox got 4 - including one of my originals (always considered a pet). Oh well - that’s how it goes!!
They are nice to have around - thanks for watching 😊
Great info.
Thanks you :)
Awesome video love the farm to table idea
Thanks Aidan pleased you enjoyed it!!
Life is full of happiness. Love it 😍. Thanks for sharing.
Yes joy can be found everywhere!!
well-done
Thank you
Very interesting video, thanks. When we were children, my father always told us to avoid putting meat into the compost to avoid rats. Don't you have any problems with this?
invaluable information. thank you
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😊
this is lovely
Thank you 😊
Lindos patos
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A squirt of dish detergent or a spoonful of washing soda in the duck dunking water will deal with their waterproof feathers!
Will have to give that a go!! Thanks
Dawn dish detergent?
Washing soda?
Washing soda is sodium carbonate (not sodium bicarbonate which is more common). You can make it from sod bicarbonate. It has different applications - have a look online if you are interested. I haven’t tried it for the duck feathers as yet but will try it soon!
Dawn is just a brand of dishwashing liquid here in Australia
It would be interesting to know more about how you feed them! I recently bought eleven pekin ducklings, which are growing at a phenomenal rate, but they and the many chicks that hatched this year are trying to bankrupt me! The price of chicken feed is no longer just chicken feed.
I just use organic chicken feed - costs a fortune. I don't feed them too much - if I do they sit around all day and don't bother catching frogs and snail and slugs and whatever else is out there!
Is the puddle of water necessary for raising ducks ?
Ducks do need some water - not necessarily a swimming sized pool. When I first started with ducks I had a plastic kiddie pool - they loved it. They need a large enough container of water to swish their beaks around in - it's part of how they process their food so quite important.
@@huttonsvalleypermaculture it goes exactly the same for geese ?
@robertrazvan3527 I don’t have geese so not sure!
@@huttonsvalleypermaculture i would love to help you there with your work linda
@robertrazvan3527 oh thanks Robert - if I’m looking for a hand I’ll know who to ask 😊
A Fox got 30 of our Xmas ducks in abt 1978. mum was just about to dress them for dinner
That’s a lot of ducks for dinner! Those foxes certainly know how to ruin things!! The fox got another two before I finished editing that video 😟
Do they require vaccines?
No I’ve vaccinated any of them!
I love your video! Why are you talking so very fast though???????
Sorry but that’s just how I speak. If the accent makes it difficult to understand me perhaps play my videos on a slower speed - may help!??
Thanks for watching!!
wax the ducks it works great
Thanks a James - will have to give that a go 👍👍
Ducks should plucked with wax. They have thin hairs that needs to come out.
Yeah waxing them is a great idea!!
Chickens &turkeys will swallow small stones,to their gizzard to help w/ corn,& hard food they eat
Yes that’s right! Thanks for watching 😊
The bigger ones are what brand
Muscovy
Puddles aint not needed but it helps theem to swallow their feed down their throats for ducks,geese,
Thanks Michelle!