Number of birds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do chick AND duck. I would do one or the other and then a beef or lamp chops. I would be disappointed to eat a roasted chick for tgiving!

The roasted chicken is for the people who won’t eat any of the other meats. I’m including myself in that. Most of the guests will not eat lamb, and half won’t eat beef.

[Anonymous]

Assuming each chickens is 5-6 lbs, and you have all the traditional sides, I'd make two chickens and two ducks. Nobody is going to take a full chicken breast or leg quarter the way they would at a normal dinner with only 1-2 sides. Carve the breast off and cut it into neat slices, cut the meat from the thighs and drumsticks.

The ducks I've had have always been smaller than chickens, not larger. Even if they look the same size, they have less meat per bone section.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One whole chicken equals 8 pieces of chicken -- 2 breasts, two wings, 2 thighs, 2 drumsticks. I always assume 2 pieces of chicken per person. So 2 chickens means enough for 8 people. I have never cooked a duck before. A duck is bigger than a chicken, so I would guess that a duck would feed 6 maybe.

PP here.
I just looked it up. Apparently a duck is not actually bigger than a chicken. It's about the same size. So I am going to guess that one entire duck would be enough meat for 4.

Huh. I assumed it's a bigger bird too. It's like 4x the price of a chicken. I guess I'll add a couple more chicken, then.

Duck is fairly fatty so it might be a "bigger" bird, but in terms of edible meat...eh, not so much.
At least that was my personal anecdotal experience. Ymmv.