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.
It sounds like safer duck habitat here than in Florida-we don’t have pythons, and there are no duck-eating fish in this river-no gators except in East Texas, either. Hawks nest in the woods by the river, and will grab a duck, but they will also grab anything smaller than they are, including domestic fowl that is unprotected-they are very fond of young peafowl, which a lot of people here keep as attractive watchbirds-and they are not overly bright...
We have Muscovy ducks around, but they are mostly the domesticated type, and rather large-even the free range ones-they don’t taste any different than any other duck to me, but I’m not a connoisseur-I only like it cooked on the grill-otherwise, it is greasy...