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Duck, duck, goose.

We maintain a flock of 50-100 ducks and 15-45 geese, depending on the season. We raise Silver Appleyards (a heritage breed from England), white Muscovies (a tropical duck species domesticated by indigenous peoples of the Americas), and a mixed flock of Toulouse and Embden geese. We sell the meat and eggs of all three species.

The ducks and geese live together, rotating through our wooded pasture and off-season vegetable fields. They eat grass and mulberries in the early summer and persimmons in the fall. In the process, they trample down last fall's cover crops and glean rye heads and bits of re-sprouted kale, chicory, and other winter-hardy greens.

Our Eggs

We sell duck and goose eggs in three different sizes:

  • Duck eggs by the dozen are $10
  • Duck eggs by the half dozen are $6
  • Goose egg 4-packs are $12

These eggs are different from (or, as we would have it, superior to) chicken eggs in three ways:

  • Flavor: waterfowl eggs contain a higher percentage of yolk, and a fattier yolk. This makes them taste like they've had a dollop of butter added right out of the shell.
  • Texture: a lower water content means that a fried egg crisps up faster, and with help from that bigger yolk, leaves more of a soft center. Boiled and poached eggs are firmer, and they add more bulk to bread and cakes. (This also means that you've got to add some milk if you want them scrambled.)
  • Nutrition: a duck egg contains almost twice the calories of a chicken egg. A goose egg has nearly four times the calories of a chicken egg. Gram for gram, waterfowl eggs also contain 6x more B12 than a chicken egg!

Neither species is easy to convince to lay all year long: the duck egg season for us lasts from February until August or September, and the goose egg season just from March until June or July.

Our Meat

We sell whole duck and goose. We process our birds ourselves right here on the farm. In Connecticut an "arm's length transaction" like this is allowed only direct to consumer and on the farm -- we don't bring birds to farmers markets, and we can't deliver.

Birds can be preordered in our online store for $12/lb. We also offer poultry CSA options that provide a discount over this price.