/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14851966
She doesn't. She has crazy fucking dogs that keep predators away but on occasion will kill her chickens. Her dogs are nuts, but cute and relatively nice to people. No fence. I will occasionally see her birds hanging out on the other side of her property. That's just how it is without the USDA fucking you in the ass. My duck (and future chicken) setup is rotating pasture, so not true free range but sunshine, constant fresh grass and predator protection via electric fence and mobile coop.

>>14851967
They are 2.5 bucks a dozen. One time she gave me 8 dozen for free. Nice lady. Stop going to the supermarket. They rip you off.

>>14763637
Does these animals look tortured to you? They get ONE bad day. Actually more like a couple bad seconds. Which is much better deal than most humans get.

All industrial animals are treated like shit, so if you're not sourcing or producing ANY of your food, there is probably a good deal of animal suffering involved.

>>14762613
Homestead duck anon here. Actually have a duck right now in the oven.
Ducks are far more popular in non American countries. I'm not 100% sure why. It might be the fact that the Pekins (the industrial meat breed shown in OPs pic) does not cook as quickly as your typical cornish cross broiler.

I agree that duck is absolutely delicious, but it's a slow cooking kind of animal, whether thats peking duck or the duck stew that I make from my older ducks (usually ducks are slaughtered at 7-8 weeks, I waited until they were 12-16 weeks)

Ducks also don't do well in the american CAFO system. Ducklings are more water intensive, and have wet shits. Much stinkier than chickens. Ducks do best outdoors IMO.

Deep frying duck is possible but kind of a pain. you need to cook the meat before deep frying otherwise it will be too tough and rich.

Ducks are also INCREDIBLY fatty. This is great for rendering but Amerifats are (ironically) terrified of cholesterol.

>>14762618
Domestic ducks can't fly. Especially the one in OPs pic. Chickens fly better than Pekins. Having said that people keep mallards free range as livestock and they stick around, even though they can fly, because WE GOT THE GOOD KUSH YO.

Also my ducks are as intelligent as chickens. Maybe less due to their flock mentality.

>>14749695
My neighbor has a man made pond, and this year the wild ducks that normally would eat his duckweed didn't show up this year so I got a pretty good amount of duckweed which my ducks absolutely loved. I plan on making ponds in the future for a variety of uses and the ducks are hopefully going to help manage some of them. Seeing my ducks in a swale or pond would make me really happy, I love seeing the ducks splash in their pools.

>>14495539
Gimpy? Are you messaging me from beyond the grave?