I have found WoodDucks and Gadwals to be the better eating for cookin,my Brother lives down in a awesome place to duck hunt they get lots divers and puddle ducks,they get way more than I would so at the end of season they grind them up and make sausage and split it with all that hunt and help process them! make sure ya run a metal detector over them dam steel shot takes a toll on the grinder and your teeth
Most of ours gets eaten fresh. Anything else gets frozen then at the end of the season we make jerky. We made 26 pounds this fall. I’ve earned A LOT of hunting land with my recipe.
Use to Duck hunt with my Uncle in ND when I was younger,that way of hunting is way different then what we do here but it was fun fun sneakin up on them in the potholes on the prairie!