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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

Ducks are great!  A staple meat virtually anywhere in the world.

It's important to learn not just how to properly harvest a duck, but why it matters.  

There is a heap of good information about how to maximize nutrition, minimize cruelty, and increase efficiency in the process. This thread has a few good approaches: https://permies.com/t/47528/butcher-chicken

Some amazing farmstead meatsmith videos:



For this BB, the minimum requirements are:
-Start with 1 Live Duck
-Killed in a humane manner
-Processed and either prepared or properly stored within an hour

To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
-Living bird
-Bird after slaughter, depicting the method used
-Organs separated into suitable for human consumption / not suitable for humans consumption, next to plucked bird  
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We raised some pekins this fall to start our meat duck flock and yesterday I processed most of the males. So here's my duck harvest BB submission.
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Me in need of a haircut and the first pekin.
Me in need of a haircut and the first pekin.
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A duck in the cone
A duck in the cone
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Plucked and ready to be taken inside to finish processing.
Plucked and ready to be taken inside to finish processing.
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Ofal in a bag in the sink. Along with the gizard , heart and.liver I save the necks for stock. I also save the skin and fat to render and the feet get frozen for dog snacks.
Ofal in a bag in the sink. Along with the gizard , heart and.liver I save the necks for stock. I also save the skin and fat to render and the feet get frozen for dog snacks.
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Today, I culled the male ducks from my little flock. Opalyn and I butchered 4 ducks, altogether. Here's the pics from my first duck:
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Me with a live duck
Me with a live duck
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We used a "cone" or a bucket with a hole cut in the bottom. I sliced the jugular veins on either side of the neck, and held him head-down to bleed out. Otherwise, he would have leaped out.
We used a "cone" or a bucket with a hole cut in the bottom. I sliced the jugular veins on either side of the neck, and held him head-down to bleed out. Otherwise, he would have leaped out.
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After a hot water bath, plucking wasn't tough. It just took forever! Here I have the liver, gizzard, and heart on one side of the duck, intestines/lungs/other grisly bits on the other
After a hot water bath, plucking wasn't tough. It just took forever! Here I have the liver, gizzard, and heart on one side of the duck, intestines/lungs/other grisly bits on the other
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