Duck gizzards
 

If you clean your own ducks, cut open the gizzards and check the contents. It was surprising to me how many round steel shot pellets that I found. I am amazed at how efficient ducks are at sifting through pond bottoms for sand and small pellet size rocks.

i always check the gizzards when i clean them to cook them... good eatin!!

I eat the gizzards too but I usually fillet them, I sometimes don't cut into the centers.

I always do the same and been for 10yrs never found a bb. That's pretty cool. Lots of rocks though when they in rice maybe because its harder to break down than other food??!!? I think it's so cool they know what to eat to live right. I eat every one of them they good but not everyone can handle the tdxture

Birds have to have hard objects (grit, gravel, BBs, etc) to grind up their food into usable form. They can not distinguish between a coffeebean, smartweed seed, pebble, rice, etc. it all goes down. This was/is one of the bad things about lead shot, there is still hundreds of TONS of lead shot in many of the historic waterfowl wintering zones such as Catahoula Lake, and it is there from now on:help:

Yea. I'm sure it is still being put in there by some! Sad but true... I knew what they ate it for but y is it that u see them bigger in rice fields and alot smaller in marshes? Timing or quinceidence or...??

Save all our gizzards!! Squealer gizzards are the best. Like little marshmallows!
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Now thats a pretty sight

thats alot of pickin!

We do all our birds like that. Keepin it old school like I was taught. Every now and then on those bad hangover days well breast a few :)

A few of those bad boys will be hittin this bad mother scooter. Squealers are the best but pintail are in a close 2nd.
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me too...only time Im breasting em is if they have alot of pin feathers

Yep, like you I save those hearts too, very tasty. I tried saving livers but they weren't very good especially if that little green bile gland gets busted.
I don't get many squeelers, missed a chance this morning, I thought that they were cormorants until it was too late. We have tons of cormorants. and tons of coots. Any ideas on how to prepare coots, a buddy shot a couple opening day and he didn't want them. I didn't want to waste them, the meat looked pretty good, they have nice, big gizzards.

I never ate Coot before but we would shoot them for that big gizzard and make a gumbo with that.

Man you actually pluck them yourself.....
I take mine to someone to pluck around where we hunt.....1.50 for a teal and 2.50 for a big duck...
However, I mostly breast my big ducks myself....

BTW, nice duck porn.....LOL

Poule deau are good. Jerk the breast and gizzard out and make a gumbo. We've always cleaned our own birds since I was little I can remember helping my dad clean everything he used to bring home.

ive saved livers before and they were good...I just cooked em in a black skillet with some lard and ate em

I'm not a fan of liver. Never really cared for it.

All our hearts and gizzards are used for grandmas Christmas rice dressing, best gumbo J've ever eaten was from poule d'eaux breast

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Eaten some pot fried poul deaux as I read this