Author Topic: wtf am i ? (Read 788 times)

FiLtH · « **Reply #15 on:** May 17, 2007, 05:37:22 PM »

It only looks funny because of that hump on the cowl. Thats to accommodate the 30mm.

Gunthr · « **Reply #16 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:05:26 PM »

definately a Muscovy duck. they get big. they roam all over my neighborhood - worse than loose dogs, they hiss at you, won't get out of your way when you are driving down the street, they tear into your garbage bags when you put it on the street on garbage day, crap all over your driveway, etc. a true pest in Florida, and they breed non-stop.

storch · « **Reply #17 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:05:28 PM »

around here they are called barbary ducks. they are pretty good tablefare too.

Gunthr · « **Reply #18 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:07:18 PM »

trust me, Storchy, they are inedible by anyone but Hatians, and they would have to be starving.

storch · « **Reply #19 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:11:53 PM »

a bit on the greasy side and smelly to clean but they taste somewhat like roast beef. trust me on this one. I live on a lake and the population is controlled

I actually have to hunt them. they have grown wary of me. the eggs are good too.

Xargos · « **Reply #20 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:14:04 PM »

We have a lot of them in the Sangaree area, they have some really nasty poop and get it on everything.

storch · « **Reply #21 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:15:16 PM »

ya they absolutely poop a ton per duck. they usually poop on people's patios too.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #22 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:20:11 PM »

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Originally posted by storch
ya they absolutely poop a ton per duck. they usually poop on people's patios too.

Want to keep ducks off your deck? (or dock)

Make a concentrated tea of Cayenne pepper and spray it on the surface of the deck (wood deck soaks it in, a composite deck it washes off during the first rain)

The ducks (or little kids) will walk on the deck with wet feet and get a chemical hot foot. They stay off after that.

Gunthr · « **Reply #23 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:25:31 PM »

Storch, the ones in my immediate vicinity are controlled too. i just don't like my roast beef that muddy tasting. i break every egg i see but not in the frying pan... you might like that bizarre foods of the world show - i think its on the travel channel.

Xargos · « **Reply #24 on:** May 17, 2007, 06:35:22 PM »

Muscovy are to ducks, what Gar are to fish.

storch · « **Reply #25 on:** May 17, 2007, 07:07:58 PM »

they are down right tasty. the nasty is in the gutting, they absolutely stink but once cleaned they look like a turkey and are not dry like most ducks. frau storch used to think me nuts until she ate some inadvertantly

. the lake that we live on is crystal clear, the water so clean we have fresh water mollusks, snook, bass, bream and all manner of cichlids. I don't eat the cichlids but everything else is fair game and not at all muddy tasting like other freah water fish I've had around florida. I guess if they were feeding in a muddy lake that might affect the flavor. barbary duck is a traditional table fare from where I come from.

Gunthr · « **Reply #26 on:** May 17, 2007, 07:54:23 PM »

its been years for me, Storch, i might try some again... these muscovys congregate around a slow canal... i have to be careful though, people around here would just as soon see me hung by a rope from a tree for harvesting a muscovy.

CHECKERS · « **Reply #27 on:** May 17, 2007, 08:18:42 PM »

The national Bird of Mexico !

storch · « **Reply #28 on:** May 17, 2007, 08:26:23 PM »

and cuba

Dago · « **Reply #29 on:** May 17, 2007, 10:20:55 PM »

that is the Rosie O'Donnel of the duck world.