Thank you, all the best to you and your family from the Bigland...

In our area we went more for the eiders, though the turrs often made a fine meal. Yes they keep good it those containers, gives the contains a second use which is also good...

I feel ya.

Good for sure, I actually been going though a few bottles of eider duck lately. I usually fry a bit of onion in butter then add the bottled meat. Sometimes a little pastry/duff on top...

Thank you...

Hunting on the water for birds and seals is probably my favorite thing to do, especially in the spring when Ice around..

Best part especially roasted. I think the skin on a roasted eider duck should be worth 1000 dollars square inch...lol So so good.....

I just had salt fish and white bread with molasses on it for breakfast.... haha yum

Good times can't beat it, much the same when we pick eider ducks, lots of time the liver gets roasted on the stove.. Try sometime with a bit of dainty rice, we mostly do it with eider duck, we call it rice gravy.. If someone say they are having rice gravy with the ducks then thats it a bit of rice added... Not minute rice got to be dainty...

Master chef secret ...lol

Thank you, I don't find them. Yes I have I normally don't use much barley but I sometimes add a little to my soup, real nice flavor..

Thank you, from the Ocean Prawns, my buddy works on her...

I actually heard about this years ago but then I taught there was someone to do with the risk of the grease from the fat getting on the crab, wouldn't be good in the cooker I imagine...

But suppose to work really well for catching them a Independent study be good on this...

Darn I made two batches just 3 days ago, could of filmed it then. I made a batch of white and a batch of whole wheat. After the bread cools down you can put the bread in freezer bags and put in the freezer. When you take it out of the freezer take it out of the bag its in and put in another. Sometimes a little frost is on the bag so that's why you change it. When thawed its just like fresh bread, the key though it has to be frozen fresh...

You welcome, a lot of the fat and flavor is in the skin, the roasted skin on a eider duck would have to be the best of all... Not the same but some people avoid the fish eating birds, just mentioned another fish eating bird that's all...

@@Biglandtrapper I was curious because we have meganzers here. Both hooded and common. Depending on the recipe, they can be good or poor. When birds are scarce, I shoot them because a duck is a duck and they often give the dogs a good retrieve.

@@mushercdn We don't see the Hooded Merganser here so often they are more rare here but we get a lot of the Red Breasted & some Common Mergansers. Been awhile now since I had one but out of them all I would prefer the Common Merganser, they are bigger and quiet good. We call the Common Merganser a Gossert but not sure if I have it spelled right ...lol I can remember quiet well the first time I killed a Gossert, it was up around Shinnies Brook, many many years ago.... I will also add that sometimes a scatter Merganser mostly the Red Breasted ones will stay late in the fall and you might get one while Eider duck hunting, that time of the year they are the absolute best...

@@mushercdn This is a old video but in this one I picked out the male for dinner.. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLuIo7GmsMrYhoU.html

I imagine a skunk would certainly have to be cleaned proper, probably shot as well and not from a trap... I heard that otter is ok if you shoot him when they don't know your there, like bang and he's dead, but if he knows your there and feels danger then the glands I guess get going and if you shoot him then not fit to eat...

@@Biglandtrapper Yup, Grandpa and his buddy shot them, ate them , and sold the fur. I think in 1955, Grandpa bought Grandma a washing machine from his fur sales. This was in Beechy, SK.

@@Biglandtrapper I want to add my Grandma admitted to wanting to buy a Harley so she could ride. At my wedding, at age 89, she got on a Harley decker. It was funny, Best Man and I were going to lift her on, and she yelled, "get the hell away from me". The picture is on wall in my kitchen. My clients in NYC had her picture on the bike in their office. Respect.

@@bradyelich2745 Awesome story, I really enjoy reading comments like this, thank you...

@@Biglandtrapper Thanks, that means a lot coming from a real man, like yourself.

My brother owns those, they are tame....

Eider duck do have a stronger flavor but we ate so many of them growing up I guess we acquired a taste for them. Eider is great done like this and roasted with old fashion stuffing. The old fashion stuffing with salt pork and onions with a good helping of pepper compliment the eider very well.. I do believe the skin of a roasted eider duck should be worth about a thousands per square inch :) And must say I love the smell of the eider roasting,,

@@Biglandtrapper thanks brother I hope to try them some day ...and thanks for the reply your pal from moosejaw sask.

@@Biglandtrapper agree with you, I'm from L'anse Au Loup originally and my father harvested lots of eiders over the years and they make a meal fit for Queen but I think she'd have to be quick to get the brown roasted skin! lol

NO, I pick probably more than 90% of the birds I harvest, some meals are better without the fat especially from fish eating birds. We keep all the good insides and often keep the heads & wings as well. People buy chicken and sometims remove the skin, its no different...