Question on duck taste

[browningboy]

Is associated like one office or does each area have an office? See there’s Delta, Surrey etc.. can’t find a contact number but very interested in the club?

[bighorn]

i just canned up some goose breasts. cut breast into cubes 1/2-3/4 inch teaspoon salt fill with beef broth 2 breasts to a jar, 90 min. at 10 lbs in pressure cooker. made some stew very mild you'd think it was moose.

[silveragent]

Is associated like one office or does each area have an office? See there’s Delta, Surrey etc.. can’t find a contact number but very interested in the club?

I'm not a member but it's a very paper and pencil managed type club from what I have seen. I know i'm on the waiting list but it was through a member who got someone to contact me. That member who arranged it had waited five years previously. It is one 'office' for the whole club and by office I imagine it's just someone and their file cabinet.

[wideopenthrottle]

Depends also on the breed. Green wing teal everywhere are a treat. Mallards, pintails in my book are good. Sea ducks are weird. Shovelers taste like mud. All IMO.

IMO ducks in Boundary also feed in farm fields so you can't assume they are eating stuff out in the bay. I mean they are because I see them but they are also flying back and forth inland to the bay. Their diet is varied.

If you have experience from the prairies I assume you know how to cook them since whenever I give ducks to my non-hunting friends I always tell them to eat them rare or they will come out like liver.

not to mention the ones that feed in ditches, tailing ponds and sewage lagoons....

[ACB]

Thanks for the responses! Sounds like sticking with mallards and teals are a good bet here, have to check out the lower mainland map! So most people part of a club like associated wildlife or just ask farmers? Non salt water areas.

An old Newfie friend always said for mallards and Widgeon take a sniff around their opened beaks when got around streams that have spawning salmon in it, they'll chow down on dead salmon. I saw them doing this myself on the Harrison River. He always said if they smell fishing his dog would get some fine eating, they didn't go to waste.

[MRP]

My dad ate lots of ducks in saskabush in the 30s. Anything in BC he called mudhens.

[mastercaster]

Thanks for the responses! Sounds like sticking with mallards and teals are a good bet here, have to check out the lower mainland map! So most people part of a club like associated wildlife or just ask farmers? Non salt water areas.

Personally, here in the lower mainland, I find that wigeons are the best table fare. They're grass eaters more than anything else. Tough to find anything wrong with the meat from birds or animals that primarily graze on grass.

[browningboy]

Thanks everyone for all the responses, thinking of getting into it as there’s not much to do at this time of year! Have to do some bird ID again! Lol

[silveragent]

Fortunately in our area you don't have to worry too much about duck ID because the limit is pretty generous. 8 ducks of any kind. But within that you need to watch out for a pintail limit and goldeneye limit. But yes please bone up on ID for your palate and also if you care to leave the hens alone.

Every season I see people shooting at or even downing not legal birds: herons, cormorants, seagulls. And to be totally transparent, some years back I had self reported myself for getting a yellowlegs when I was targeting teal. From the air it looked good! Once I found it on the ground it was a sad mistake.

[N¡ck]

I shot a few mallards on the squamish river a few years back. They were nasty! Like dead fish nasty. Made dog food out of it. Mix of yams eggs and nasty duck. Dog loved them. Last time I hunted there for ducks.