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Muscovy ducks
Muscovy ducks, contrary to what you would assume from their name, are not from Moscow.
The species is originally from Latin America.
So I am surprised to see this kind of duck show up on almost all of the "Village Life" type videos that originate in eastern Europe. They are easily identified by the fleshy, pink growths around their eyes and on the sides of their heads.
Have any of you readers raised them? Do you have any opinions on why homesteaders and other, lower-technology enterprises value them?
Raised them in Florida free range, great mother's, not ducks, taste like beef, nest in boxes in trees, great eggs,,will lay 18 eggs and hatch them.
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ReplyDeleteNever raised them, but they were available at a little butcher shop on Five Mile and Schoenherr in Detroit and provided the main ingredient in czernina.
ReplyDeleteMan I miss me some czernina- Polish Duck Blood Soup.
Milton
Not like raising regular ducks. The meat is superb and much less fatty.
ReplyDeleteMeat AND very large eggs +++
ReplyDeleteIf they are near an inflatable swimming pool they land on the pool and their claws poke holes. The neighbors were sad.
ReplyDeleteThe young ones down here are mosquito vacuums. Snatch them outta the air. I was told that's where they get their name. YMMV.
ReplyDeleteSuperb broody mothers. Unlike most ducks that drop an egg randomly and wander off Muscovy's nest well, successfully raising chicks every spring - summer.
ReplyDeleteMuscovy's are pretty quiet, low hisses and such. No rooster crows, no loud quacking.
They accept eggs from other species well.
They're quiet
ReplyDeleteThey're the most entertaining duck. They have long conversations with each other, heads bobbing, and they eat a ton of grasshoppers and other insects. Fun to have around.
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