Question on duck taste

[browningboy]

Interesting Conversation ,first there is not a 5 year waiting list for Associated and in fact they have taken a fair amount of new members in the past few years. My .02

Question, where do you find a number for the place? Sounds like a secret society like the water buffalos?

[tadpole]

Not in my experience. Grew up in Alberta shooting lots of grain fed mallards. I’ve seen many birds split open when they hit the ground with off white, yellowish fat spilling out of the split skin around the breast and tail. .

Absolutely Correct.

Spent a LOT of time in Saskatchewan and Alberta in my younger years.
Shooting ducks and geese of course was a fascination.
Can't count the number of times we saw birds burst open upon landing when shot - fat spewing everywhere.
Crop splitting was much rarer even though we were mainly into field shoots over decoys.

Witnessed the exact same thing in the Arctic when hunting snow geese and specklebellies.
A noticeable number of them split wide open upon hitting the dirt.

As for chowing down on, the birds from the prairies and the arctic were wonderful.
After tasting them from the coast, I simply gave up waterfowling.
Mud Hens is exactly right in comparison!

Cheers,
Matt NOT Tad

[180grainer]

After seeing all the ducks and geese migrate into the fields here in grande prairie during September and October I’ve had a growing interest in trying duck hunting. Just can’t find the time during big game season. Must be tasty eating all the grain

If you have access to good bird hunting in Grande Prairie you should take a week off deer hunting and go. Find someone that knows what they're doing. A good morning duck hunting is freaking awesome. I doubt you'll ever regret it. And I'd imagine those birds will taste very good.

[180grainer]

Logistically speaking I can't see why a bird with more fat on it would split at the breast easier than if they weren't as fat. I think if a bird was to split open it would have more to do with the distance it fell, the speed at which it was falling, and what the surface was like that it fell on. Frozen ground would cause way more impact than a softer field or water. Because fat is soft you'd think it should provide more cushioning for the bird upon contact. All I know is if I had to jump out of a building from the 2nd floor I would prefer to wear one of those fat suits that actors wear when they make movies. Any extra cushioning would be better than what I have now. Perhaps a scientific experiment is needed,,,,lol.

Maybe I'm unlucky to witness it but I did a half a dozen 5 day trips back to the prairies at my uncle's farm with my dad, brother and a friend when I was a teen growing up and we dropped hundreds of ducks each trip and we didn't have any ducks split at the breast,,,, and they were lousy with fat because it was all mid September hunting. The fields weren't hard or frozen because I remember how we had to dig pits for blinds all the time. Had the fields been rock hard maybe I would have seen it happen??

It's not fat. It's their grop so full of grain that splits them. Also heard the birds would fill up on grain and then head for the nearst slough and drink. You give them half an hour in the slough and they can't get off the water they're so full.

[mastercaster]

It's not fat. It's their grop so full of grain that splits them. Also heard the birds would fill up on grain and then head for the nearst slough and drink. You give them half an hour in the slough and they can't get off the water they're so full.

That's what I mention in my post,,,, #25. Although I haven't seen the splitting of their crop or their breast first hand with the hundreds of ducks I've seen drop from the sky I have had and seen birds puke out corn niblets a few times upon impact with the ground because they were so engorged with it.