How can you raise ducks for both eggs and meat?
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How do you keep your drake from fertilizing all of your eggs? How do you know which eggs are fertile and which aren’t? Also, they are pasture-raised. The drake has not been added yet.
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Well, he will fertilize almost all of them— whether or not they are fertilized does not effect whether or not you can eat them. Fertilized eggs are exactly the same nutritionally as sterile ones. Simply collect eggs every day, and leave the ones under a brooding female that you want them to hatch out.
Nightshade
May 16, 2012 at 4:47 pm
don’t you dare raise ducks for meat. Ducks are way to precious. Get chickens if you want meet. Ducks are pets and very special. That’s like raising cats and eating them or dogs! You can not eat ducks!
Pierce
May 16, 2012 at 4:59 pm
There is no reason to keep the drake from fertilizing all the eggs as we cannot tell the difference, fertilized or not. That way you can assume that all the eggs are fertile. As far as I now raising ducks for eggs or meat will be fine on duck pelleted feed food and pasture raising his good.
Charles D. M.
May 16, 2012 at 5:12 pm