How many of you debreast ducks?

We pluck the ducks, but don't mess with the gizzards or hearts, unless we use it as crab bait.

Deer we wont mess with the ribs. The neck, which a lot of ppl ignore, is more than likely my favorite part.

When we debreast the ducks we take the breast meat and the legs, sometimes the gizzards



Never leave a pouldeau gizzard behind

We dont debreast them all


We pluck a lot of ducks



Love me some duck stew

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I debreast 100% of them. I don't have any interest in the heart or gizzard.

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Thats ashame. This is like killing a deer and leaving the backstrap. You can throw away the hearts and gizzards but the rice and gravy you can make with a whole duck. Not to mention boil them down and make a duck stock, debone them, and make a duck and sausage gumbo.

Cook it low and slow maybe, with a lot of stuffing, ie onions, celery, apples and the like, plus baste it often. Who knows. Sounds interesting doesn't it.

yikes....nothing better than some cripsy duck skin off the thigh

typically, i breast the small birds and pluck the larger ones


sometimes, if i plan to make a gravy, its possible to pluck the breast, and pull it off while retaining the skin, its at least enough skin to make some semblance of a gravy

i'm just not a very efficient duck plucker, and my dad usually defaults all of the cleaning to me, so if i'm looking at 12 ducks by myself, breasting at least the smaller birds is a huge help

We pick every duck. We mainly use them to make duck dressing, so we want every piece of meat.

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When plucking the duck and making the gravy/stew, what is your favorite method of cooking? recipe?

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Dad and I shoot, pluck then singe, Mom cooks. Wife won't touch.

I don't know the recipe but I bet 90% of the ducks we kill we make into dressing.