Who eats them? are they any good?

I do, but I'm from South Louisiana.

Grind up the gizzards and hearts and make rice dressing and cook the breasts anyway you'd cook ducks.

Mostly make gumbo with them or grill wrapped with bacon and stuffed with cream cheese and jalepeno.

Have a buddy that hunts in Oklahoma. He'd never touch them because always heard they were trash. There's one particular lake that's loaded with them and you can walk right up on them in most of the necks.

We shot 3 or 4 one hunt and grilled them with the ducks. Nobody in his family could tell a difference. Now after every duck hunt he drives around that lake and gives them hell.

Step on the feet and pull on the wings and the breasts pop right out. If you don't eat the gizzards and hearts you're done. If you do eat them its really easy to pull them out. The gizzards clean extremely easily. The rough green lining on the inside just peels right out.

When I was in high school the duck hunting in South Louisiana was fantastic. We'd sleep in tents all weekend and come home with full 2-day possession limits nearly every weekend. We'd pluck every duck and skin all the coots leaving the heads on them.

I'd go to my grandmothers and let her pick out what she wanted. If I had coots, or Poul D'eau as we call them, she'd take them everytime. She'd turn her nose up to a perfectly cleaned mallard that looked like it was bought from the store everytime if I had coots in the ice chest.

I've eaten it. It doesn't taste bad. I think folks let the fact that it's a coot get in the way.

The only time I cooked a coot, I cooked it alongside a spoonie and a teal. I used a blackening seasoning. The three birds tasted the same.

Hummmmmmmmmmmmm Gumbo times and add some hot sauage in with it

I think ducks are all good just depends on how they are cooked and seasoned.