Ducks, give them away. Divers and sea ducks, puddle ducks are edible.
Never shot any more. Won't shoot any critter I don't plan on eating, other than pests, like agressive coons and the aforementioned feral cats.
Snow geese can live 20 years, Canada geese even longer. Indeed the old adults are not very good to eat!
However, if you only shoot the
dingy-looking or "dirty" snow geese they are the young-of-the-year birds and they are MUCH better table fare!
When I was an impoverished graduate student, I lived at one of the great snow migration sites.
To save money, pretty much all of the meat I ate was from snow geese, ducks (mallards and canvasbacks mostly), sandhill cranes or whitetail deer.
Oh, and to add flavor, some bacon to wrap the above-listed critters in while cooking.
John
