Worms in ducks?

[Wolfeman]

So today I went on my first duck hunt. Came home with 2 ducks and when I cut them open the both smelled like satans ******* and had worms.

Is this normal? I ended up just taking the breasts, wings, and legs off and threw the rest to the dogs..... Is it safe to eat?



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[shooter12]

I would not give it to the dog.
Just in case.
Probably and more likely would not eat it myself either.

[Drewski Canuck]

Sometimes there is avian cholera outbreaks. Where these birds airborne when killed or shot on the water?

If it flies it probably is not infected.

Would help to see the worms. Shot an awful lot of ducks over the years, never saw a worm. Where did you see the worms on the body cavity?

Drewski

[Benelli1]

Were the worms in the body on in the breast meat? I once had a mallard and skinning it found it had worms in the breast. At first I thought they were pin feathers thru the skin and into the meat but after really looking at them seen they were moving.

Found out it had Sarcocystis and apparently safe to consume.......I didn't and now am leary to pluck birds because you can't see them with the skin on.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=sarco...rome&ie=UTF-8#

[Wolfeman]

Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck

Sometimes there is avian cholera outbreaks. Where these birds airborne when killed or shot on the water?

If it flies it probably is not infected.

Would help to see the worms. Shot an awful lot of ducks over the years, never saw a worm. Where did you see the worms on the body cavity?

Drewski

One was on the water the second was about a foot up and had just taken off.

They looked like 1 cm long tapeworms. Pretty nasty. The worms were in the body cavity, not in the meat. Could have crawled out of stomach or the intestines as both had shot through the belly.

The meat tasted pretty dirty. Not disgusting but not very good either.

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[Wolfeman]

Originally Posted by Benelli1

Were the worms in the body on in the breast meat? I once had a mallard and skinning it found it had worms in the breast. At first I thought they were pin feathers thru the skin and into the meat but after really looking at them seen they were moving.

Found out it had Sarcocystis and apparently safe to consume.......I didn't and now am leary to pluck birds because you can't see them with the skin on.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=sarco...rome&ie=UTF-8#

Didnt look like that

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[Benelli1]

Originally Posted by Wolfeman

One was on the water the second was about a foot up and had just taken off.

They looked like 1 cm long tapeworms. Pretty nasty. The worms were in the body cavity, not in the meat. Could have crawled out of stomach or the intestines as both had shot through the belly.

The meat tasted pretty dirty. Not disgusting but not very good either.

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Yuk I would have turfed that pretty quick. I wouldn't have ate it.

[Bub]

Originally Posted by Benelli1

Were the worms in the body on in the breast meat? I once had a mallard and skinning it found it had worms in the breast. At first I thought they were pin feathers thru the skin and into the meat but after really looking at them seen they were moving.

Found out it had Sarcocystis and apparently safe to consume.......I didn't and now am leary to pluck birds because you can't see them with the skin on.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=sarco...rome&ie=UTF-8#

That looks nasty. No matter how safe it is to eat, I doubt many would. In fact I would not eat any bird if I saw any kind of worms in it. Especially when it smells weird. Over the time, I had one duck that smelled funny and it felt like it was dead for few days when I was peeling the skin. The skin would also rip easily. If I did not shoot it on the water myself and pick it up right away after I shot it, I would think that I packed someone else's bird a few days after it'd been shot. I also had a whitefronted goose with the exact same "symptoms" but that one was shot in the field and I figured it was someone else's kill from a couple of nights ago. I tossed both birds.

[Benelli1]

Originally Posted by Bub

That looks nasty. No matter how safe it is to eat, I doubt many would. In fact I would not eat any bird if I saw any kind of worms in it. Especially when it smells weird. Over the time, I had one duck that smelled funny and it felt like it was dead for few days when I was peeling the skin. The skin would also rip easily. If I did not shoot it on the water myself and pick it up right away after I shot it, I would think that I packed someone else's bird a few days after it'd been shot. I also had a whitefronted goose with the exact same "symptoms" but that one was shot in the field and I figured it was someone else's kill from a couple of nights ago. I tossed both birds.

I will not shoot a bird that is not flying. If it can't or won't fly odds are it is either too young or it is sick. I also would't pick up a bird not knowing when or how it met its demise.

[densa44]

Don't take anything like that home, or eat any of them and don't feed it to the dogs.

[Wolfeman]

Thanks for all the advise everyone. I have burned all the remains. As this was my first time hunting ducks I assumed it was a normal smell and that the might normally have worms. Especially as both ducks smelled the same and had worms. I only ate a few bites and didnt like the taste. I will make sure not to bring anything like that home again

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[Canadasnowman]

Seen the breasts of Pins loaded with white worm like critters. Really gross. Turfed EM, yuk, and no do not feed them to your dogs...... Specially raw.

Nasty.

[Bub]

Originally Posted by Benelli1

I will not shoot a bird that is not flying. If it can't or won't fly odds are it is either too young or it is sick. I also would't pick up a bird not knowing when or how it met its demise.

I would not shoot it either at least 9 out of 10 times, but I did see that particular duck flying and landing. It looked great, just like all the other ducks around. The goose was picked up about 15 minutes after the sunset and probably took about 5 minutes to find. So, like I said, the goose was probably just an old kill. The duck, however, I have no idea what was wrong with it.

[The Spank]

Worms in them are not uncommon but for gods sake I would not eat it or feed it to your dogs?!

[Jadham]

A few years ago I shot a duck with sacrocystitis.

That was early season and back then I use to gut my ducks in the field. My dog got the liver of that one.

Brought him to the vet, vet researched it and said it shouldn't be a problem. But for my own piece of mind I gave him a deworming treatment.

[livinthedream]

Originally Posted by Wolfeman

Thanks for all the advise everyone. I have burned all the remains. As this was my first time hunting ducks I assumed it was a normal smell and that the might normally have worms. Especially as both ducks smelled the same and had worms. I only ate a few bites and didnt like the taste. I will make sure not to bring anything like that home again

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Wolfeman indicates this was his first time hunting ducks. I would not be surprised if the ducks were perfectly normal and what he is describing is typical, i.e. duck guts STINK!!! and if all you have ever eaten previously came from the supermarket you might not like the taste of wild duck, especially early season slough ducks??? A first timer pulling duck guts might easily imagine all kinds of creepy crawlers??? Just saying.

[WillyOneStyle]

^^
they especially stink after time.

[sns2]

Nothing wrong with it. Just give it to the in-laws. LOL.

[sns2]

For you real serious folks, that's a joke.

If I see worms, it's gone. That goes for all meat.

[sjemac]

I have cleaned thousands of ducks in my life. Never once saw worms in the guts. Saw rice breast lots but never worms in the guts. Sure wish the OP had taken a picture.

[kujoseto]

Originally Posted by sns2

Nothing wrong with it. Just give it to the in-laws. LOL.

Hahaha great plan.