Actually, ducks don’t usually get run down by lawnmowers in the wild-and live relatively easy lives, like in the rural area I live in, where ducks are no different from chickens and guineas-they are kept for eggs and to eat by a lot of people.
The river is just a short walk down a hiking trail at the back the properties on this side of the road-people feed the “wild” ducks and they hang around, becoming free range food when someone wants roast duck. Perhaps that is what those people on Florida were doing-keeping a semi-free range food source.
But animal cruelty is animal cruelty-and people like that guy in the article are lacking in basic humanity-there are no excuses for his actions...
Muscovies breed like roaches in Florida. There’s a reason 15 to 20 chicks will be born at a time. Large fish eat them. Other birds eat them. Some will be hit by cars. A lot of times only one or two will make it to adulthood.
And unless a Muscovy is strictly raised on a farm the meat will taste like trash.