What do You do will all the Ducks You shoot?

[singleshot12]

Most of the recipes posted on you-tube are for Domestic Duck. Big difference when trying to cook wild duck IMO

[Karl Blanchard]

I've plucked and seared hundreds and hundreds of duck breasts like the video posted and they are always amazing 

[frazierw]

I've plucked and seared hundreds and hundreds of duck breasts like the video posted and they are always amazing 

I hate plucking ducks! i see all these recipes that have the skin still on, but i hate to pluck them so i never try them.  Might have to give it a go this season.

[singleshot12]

I've plucked and seared hundreds and hundreds of duck breasts like the video posted and they are always amazing 

  If you get an early season mallard or pintail with a lot of fat, and of coarse if it's an East side duck

[Karl Blanchard]

I've plucked and seared hundreds and hundreds of duck breasts like the video posted and they are always amazing 

I hate plucking ducks! i see all these recipes that have the skin still on, but i hate to pluck them so i never try them.  Might have to give it a go this season.

that's why I had kids

I've plucked and seared hundreds and hundreds of duck breasts like the video posted and they are always amazing 

  If you get an early season mallard or pintail with a lot of fat, and of coarse if it's an East side duck

  so crispy 

[full choke]

This is why I hardly if ever roast whole ducks anymore. I want to look at the breast meat. They say once cooked you can eat it- but a duck should be on the rare side- and I am not knowingly eating parasites. This was a drake mallard banded in Idaho and shot in central washington. And he went in the garbage.

[frazierw]

from what i have read those are cysts, but i still wouldnt eat it.

[slowhand]

What the ??

[vandeman17]

We always called that rice breast and it is safe to eat after cooking but I never have

https://idfg.idaho.gov/conservation/wildlife-health/sarcocystis-rice-breast

[slowhand]

How often do you see this "Rice breast" 

[frazierw]

How often do you see this "Rice breast" 

once or twice a year for me.

[Odell]

I've plucked and seared hundreds and hundreds of duck breasts like the video posted and they are always amazing 

I hate plucking ducks! i see all these recipes that have the skin still on, but i hate to pluck them so i never try them.  Might have to give it a go this season.

I'm going to start plucking them in the blind while they are still warm. Gotta leave a head or wing and it ruins the tailgate shot but its easier and you don't have to worry about the mess and it gives you something to do while its slooooow.

[vandeman17]

How often do you see this "Rice breast" 

once or twice a year for me.

I bet I see about a half dozen or so each season. Generally mallards and also earlier in the season

[full choke]

How often do you see this "Rice breast" 

once or twice a year for me.

I bet I see about a half dozen or so each season. Generally mallards and also earlier in the season

Wow! That is a lot. I am 46, this one pictured is the first I have ever personally come across. I have been hunting since I was 12, and cleaning my brothers/Dad's birds before that and just never saw it. There are five boys plus Dad in the family and we have killed piles of ducks over the years. I just assumed it was more rare? Maybe it is something that has become more predominate as of late?

[Stein]

I've never seen that.