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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB88 on May 17, 2007, 01:33:12 PM
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a recent addition to our backyard fauna. looks like a cross between a vulture and a goose. not all that spooked by me either. he's about twice the size of any of our mallards. he's been around for a couple of weeks now.
(http://www.augustradio.com/wtf.jpg)
anyone know wtf this is?
:confused:
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Chinese duck. I forget the name, but it's a cross tween the Malard and domestic goose.
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ugly f***ers all over the place here
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Originally posted by whiteman
ugly f***ers all over the place here
that's why i figured ya'll would know.
;)
:D
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If that's a cross, it's the genesis of the expression "saving face." Poor fowl. Hopefully they consider each other attractive.
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RUN!!!! GET OUT OF THERE!!! RUN!!!
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would that be a "foul looking fowl?"
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I believe what you have there JB is a particularly ugly example of a Muscovy Duck:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovy_Duck
The last place I saw one was in a petting Zoo with my kids, looked very similar to yours.
- SEAGOON
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AHA!...nearly a spitting image.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Muscovy_duck_twente.jpg)
thanks!
:)
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It's a Pripyat duck, a species endemic to northern Ukraine.
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It's a Muscovy duck.
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I'm pretty sure it's an insurance agent
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It's a Pripyat duck, first seen near Pripyat (just north of Kiev Ukraine) in summer of 1986.
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John Madden would tell you...it's a turducken!
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Originally posted by Sting138
It's a Muscovy duck.
Agreed. There are a fair amount of them in this area.
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It only looks funny because of that hump on the cowl. Thats to accommodate the 30mm.
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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.
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around here they are called barbary ducks. they are pretty good tablefare too.
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trust me, Storchy, they are inedible by anyone but Hatians, and they would have to be starving.
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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 :D I actually have to hunt them. they have grown wary of me. the eggs are good too.
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We have a lot of them in the Sangaree area, they have some really nasty poop and get it on everything. :(
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ya they absolutely poop a ton per duck. they usually poop on people's patios too.
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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.
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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.
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Muscovy are to ducks, what Gar are to fish.
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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 :D . 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.
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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.
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The national Bird of Mexico !
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and cuba
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that is the Rosie O'Donnel of the duck world.
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Originally posted by Halo
If that's a cross, it's the genesis of the expression "saving face." Poor fowl. Hopefully they consider each other attractive.
Yo Halo... there's a pond in The Acres, behind the Veterans Park in PW county that has about 4 of those things... They're also in the run off that the park trail follows.
:aok