Re: Jill - The Duck Lady

On 20 Jan, 21:42, "Jill" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Jill

a friend of mine has just bought a plot of land and was thinking of
having some chickens and ducks for egg purposes only. I happened to
mention I had a duck many moons ago mainly a family pet, and we had
one egg a day for years. But they tasted so strong I could not eat
them as a "chucky egg" but only in cooking. I have watched the recent
TV and someone mentioned that different ducks deliver different
strength of taste in their eggs.

What good laying ducks would you recommend, that you could eat as the
egg as a fried or "chucky egg"

Ta

Julie

PS: Are chickens and ducks ok to keep on an allotment or is that not
a good idea?

A work colleague brought some duck eggs in one day and treated us all
to scrambled egg on toast at mid morning break. A few hours later the
office building was uninhabitable because of the stink nay stench of
flatulence! - Powerful things duck eggs!

hmm
Duck eggs are lovely but different from chicken eggs
They do NOT make you stink a room out.
They ARE rich - creamy - filling - superb for baking as their texture makes
everything rise - perfect for cakes, exquisite for quiches,
One of the BEST recipes is to put a properly poached duck egg on top of
seared salmon fillet with a squeeze of lemon on the top -- better than any
Hollandaise sauce and so much easier.
However the taste of any egg depends entirely on how the birds are fed --  
ducks, chickens or geese.
The stronger the flavour of the substrate or the crap the birds are fed on -
the stronger the taste.  Well fed birds with lots of good clean range and
clean flowing water produce lovely eggs.

If you do keep chickens you "will" have an interesting time keeping
rats out of  most hen huts or coops

And THAT is the BIGGEST load of complete CRAP ever written
Chickens DO NOT attract rats. Poor husbandry attracts rats
If you look after birds correctly then you will not bring any more rats in
than would be there without chickens.
We have had hundreds of chickens for years, in small domestic size units,
and some larger ones.
We do not and have not ever had a rat problems.
We also store and sell feed.
We do not and have not a rat problem.

The poor husbandry that attracts rats :  scattering food all over the ground
which is not cleared in 15 minutes, not providing a proper feeder that is
securely hanging or fitted in the housing, not mucking out properly,
mismanaging the compost and litter heap, tossing out food rubbish from the
kitchen whereever,
Not keeping bags of feed properly covered,
There are plenty of ways that humans can attract rats, the chickens DO NOT
do it.
;)

--
regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
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When I had my duck we never had problem with rats or mice? Her feed
was kept locked away in the garage, she had her own house and run then
when we were at home she had the run of the garden and the house
too....

We gotone egg a day, she was the most wonderful pet and we had her for
years, we had her PTS as she developed a huge tumour on her neck, we
were all devastated. I think I have some photos of her somewhere, my
dad used to dig the garden over when doing the veg, and she used to
sit on top of his spade and dive into the hole and gobble the worms,
it was amazing, but we did have her from a baby so really all she knew
was us.

All I do remember is that my mum did give me an egg for breakfast and
it was revolting, but when she did the baking the food was delicious.

I do know duck eggs don't make you stink the room out?
.

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