Duck as a survival food?

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We all know that it is said that you would starve to death long term on either rabbit or squirrel but I wonder how much better something like duck is? I would tend to think that it is much fattier expecially in whole bird form but looking for extra input here. Thanks.
 
Duck has alot of fat... MUCH more than rabbit. If you roast a duck, you will be amazed by how much fat it renders.
 
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As a teenager I would pick them off with a .22 and would simply skin them as a way of quickly dealing with the feathers (a trick my father taught me). Duck is dark and gamey. Has a lot of fat.
 
I would remind everyone...if you eat a duck out of season....IT BETTER BE TO SURVIVE!!!! The fines are HUGE, and you will lose your hunting license for a long time...you could even be put in prison. Just saying.
 
gunknifenut said:
I would remind everyone...if you eat a duck out of season....IT BETTER BE TO SURVIVE!!!! The fines are HUGE, and you will lose your hunting license for a long time...you could even be put in prison. Just saying.
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True that... as it violates not only state laws, but FEDERAL migratory game laws.
 
Are you guys eating store bought ducks or wild ones? Lot of fat at the store, very little in nature, at least in season
David
 
I would remind everyone...if you eat a duck out of season....IT BETTER BE TO SURVIVE!!!! The fines are HUGE, and you will lose your hunting license for a long time...you could even be put in prison. Just saying.
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I am speaking strictly in the survival sense. A lot of the animals that you could use in a survival situation are controlled to some degree through seasons and licensing even critters such as rabbit and squirrel; there may not be a season start and end (depends on the year here in colorado and the sub species) but you need to at least have a small game license. As you mentioned though all bets are off in a survival scenario.
 
Are you guys eating store bought ducks or wild ones? Lot of fat at the store, very little in nature, at least in season
David
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That is a helluva good point bringing back memories of the wild hogs I have shot for meat compared to the store bought pork. I know that in many items they add tallow but straight meat to meat wild to store the wild pig is wayyyy lean comparatively.

Would you still say that the wild duck is still a good fatty option?
 
Duck is fatty but prepared right its oh so good. :thumbup: Just peel of the fat (after is cooked) and WHALLA there goes the fat
 
KYCelt said:
Are you guys eating store bought ducks or wild ones? Lot of fat at the store, very little in nature, at least in season
David
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I'm talking wild.. Down here in the Sunshine State, that mostly consists of wood ducks, Mallards and Mottled ducks. Most them are indigenous, so they havent worked off all that fat...:D
 
come on up to canada, you can shoot all the canada geese you want. They are classified as vermin here, way overpopulated.
 
I was moose hunting with a buddy that hosted me in the fall of 2008 up in the Blueberry mountain area of Alberta. Thats right near you, in B.C. and let me tell you, Bro... you aint kidding. There wasnt a pond or lake where we hunted, that wasnt thick with tons of geese. Sometimes the racket was so loud in your tent, you couldnt sleep...:D
 
You REQUIRE - protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals !! Duck/rabbit supply protein and some fat but no real amount of carbs. Add grain ,rice,etc or potato .

Why I no longer watch Foodtv - I came across the program the other night while surfing .A chef was describing the meal he had prepared ,the main item was rabbit. There were two women in the panel .One said to the other ' I'm very hesitant and nervous about this - I've never had rabbit before "!!!! Afraid of eating rabbit and on a cooking panel .Where do they find such idiots ??.
 
duck is leaner than chicken with the skin off it

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and yes i shot this in ohio
 
gunknifenut said:
I would remind everyone...if you eat a duck out of season....IT BETTER BE TO SURVIVE!!!! The fines are HUGE, and you will lose your hunting license for a long time...you could even be put in prison. Just saying.
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Survival versus a law against killing an animal which you have to do to eat to survive or die ?

I would care less about the law.

That said , half the duck I have ever had was pretty nasty , not my cup of tea but it would be a sight better than nothing !


Tostig
 
Survival bird cooking

Old Italian guy showed us how to cook bird abo style. He said this is the way they would eat them out hunting without the women around to cook them, he's not a womens libber.

Cut a 1ft 1/4 in thick stick with a solid branch at the end at 45%, cut the branch 1in and angled so it is sharp. It is now like a hook

Leave bird whole but cut deeply under the tongue, carotid's are there and will bleed well.

Impale the bird up the vent and firmly push up to the top, pull down 1 inch and twist the stick around a few times and pull. All or most of it will come out. It really works.
(I kept thinking that this was the way they debrained the pharoahs for mummification)

He would then just scrape the fire back and throw it right on the coals, when a wing pulls off it was done. Feathers keep it from burning and all the juices stay.
Open and peel the skin back and eat.
Always saw nature shows where indigenous tribes do this but until he showed us this 4 years ago I would not have tried it.
Were you to skin then roast there would be far less nutrition with all the fat loss.
 
i saw a guy here wrap a duck, feathers and all , in clay mud. Buried it in the coals for awhile. when it was done an hour or so later he cracked the clay open, and pulled. All the feathers stuck to the clay aas did the skin.
 
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