How many duck eggs did you EAT today?

[Jenbirdee]

Muscovy duck eggs taste gross. Maybe it's just mine, though? My husband seems to like them, and I use them when I bake. One duck egg and two duck yolks went into my kolaches today!

maybe they are eating garlic lol

 

[Jenbirdee]

I had 1.5 delicious fried duck eggs for bkfst. (I shared the other .5 with my dog)

 

[KathiQuacks]

Growing up in NJ on a river, we had wild ducks (Mallards) and geese (don’t know the variety) and another bird that looked like a cross between those two. We called them “Gucks”, because we were kids and dumb. I now know they were Muscovy, and have informed my sister as well
Never stop learning kids!

I was looking up Magpie Ducks earlier today, and came across an image that WAS a ‘pied bird, but most certainly not a duck.
I just found it’s a Magpie Goose! I’d no idea they existed. Yes, there’s always more to learn

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

What’s the difference between dux / ducks and xickens / chickens?

When the birds start to "train" you to perform stunts like »50lbs meal-worm bag lifting« they evolve into X-birds: Ducks become Dux, Chicken become Xicken, …

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Maybe it’s like saying Cola instead of Coke or Pepsi so you don’t have to pay an advertising fee?

Coke, Pepsi, Coke, Pepsi, Coke, Pepsi!
Now sue me…

 

[Jenbirdee]

When the birds start to "train" you to perform stunts like »50lbs meal-worm bag lifting« they evolve into X-birds: Ducks become Dux, Chicken become Xicken, …

really? I thought it was just a German accent...

 

[KathiQuacks]

When the birds start to "train" you to perform stunts like »50lbs meal-worm bag lifting« they evolve into X-birds: Ducks become Dux, Chicken become Xicken, …

I certainly have a few dux, then! My first thought was that they were pompous, fancy, or rowdy birds; which actually doesn’t seem that far off

 

[tlcmurphy]

Coke, Pepsi, Coke, Pepsi, Coke, Pepsi!
Now sue me…

I work at Emory University in Atlanta, if they see me use the P word I might actually be sued

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Muscovy duck eggs taste gross. Maybe it's just mine, though? My husband seems to like them, and I use them when I bake. One duck egg and two duck yolks went into my kolaches today!

I never had a Muscovy egg, but: I have tasted Chicken, Duck, Geese, Bantam-Chicken, Turkey, Ostrich and Alligator eggs and - they all tasted very similar, yes even the 'gator-eggs, served as scrambled eggs you would have eaten as chicken eggs without a doubt.
However: I remember mom buying the first supermarket chicken-eggs in the early 70's and they smelled and tasted like a can of sardines; Turned out the chickens had been fed a cheap fish-meal only "diet".
So if the Muscovy egg you tried tasted weird, check out what the birds are actually eating. There may be some plants in your area that add a fowl taste to the eggs.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

really? I thought it was just a German accent...

Certainly not! - The German word for Duck is »Ente« and a Chicken is a »Huhn«. No x's around here. But they tend develop these "X" abilities…