Every year about 3 billion ducks are exploited for flesh and egg production.
Up to 10,000 are jammed into one dark, stinking, dirty, ammonia filled shed, where they are imprisoned for life.

Denied of their basic aquatic needs, the ducks waddle through piled-up feces sodden litter. There is no sunlight, no water and no fresh air in the crowded sheds.
Many become diseased and die before being brutally slaughtered at about 7 weeks of age.

Preening

Preening is an important behavioral pattern in all birds, and among ducks it involves immersion in water. Feeding is followed by bathing, after which ducks perform a variety of shaking movements to remove the water from their bodies, as well as removing foreign bodies and distributing oil on the feathers. This is necessary for waterproofing and temperature regulation.
Preening is often followed by sleeping for a short period. The sequence of feeding, preening and sleeping may be repeated a number of times during the day.

From day one, ducks in natural state display an intense interest in water and spend most of their waking hours swimming. Ducks in the meat and egg industry never get the chance to splash in water, not even once, even though they need water on a daily basis.

In farms, ducks are denied these natural cleansing activities. Some of the breeders even add an enzyme to the feed of the ducks to reduce the amount of water they drink, so they won't splash the water around and over their bodies.
This leads to poor feathers, difficulty in keeping warm, eye problems and even blindness since they are unable to rinse their eyes in water.

The Sheds

Most floors in the ducks confinement sheds are concrete or wire mesh with or without straw. The wire mesh is usually placed over a concrete pit with a sloping design so that washing down or collecting manure is easier.

Confining ducks on wire floor causes abrasions, bruises and tears in the area of the hock, shank or foot pad. Painful joint infections are also a very common result.

Duck farms are particularly susceptible to high ammonia levels since duck droppings contain more than 90% moisture. Constant exposure to high concentration of ammonia, causes irritation to the mucous membranes in the eyes and the respiratory system, and can lead to Keratoconjunctivitis - a painful inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva, which leads to swollen, crusty eyes and possible blindness.

Genetic Manipulation

Poultry scientists have 'designed' the industrial duck by selective breeding for a very fast growth rate. As a consequence ducks are forced to carry high weight on legs and joints which are naturally weak, since ducks do not need to support their own bodyweight in water.

Furthermore, the breeding for earlier muscle development does not coincide with earlier skeletal development and as a result the legs of these young birds are often not developed sufficiently to support their heavy bodies. The shed flooring may also contribute to leg disorders if they are kept on cement or wire mesh.
The ducks can barely walk, some fall on their backs and cannot turn back over, get knocked over by others and are often unable to manage themselves.

Ascites is another common disease caused due to intensive breeding for higher growth rates. Ascites occurs because the growth of the heart and lungs is disproportional to the development of the duck, and so the heart and lungs are unable to supply the cells with the high oxygen requirement as a result of accelerated metabolic rates.

Debeaking

Because of the stressful conditions in the unbearably dense sheds, many ducks neurotically pull out their feathers or peck at one another. To prevent this, instead of dealing with the real problem which is obviously the exploitation of those ducks in the most stressful conditions, confining them in overcrowding sheds, depriving them of water and all their natural needs, some factory farm workers cut off the birds’ sensitive upper beaks—without any painkillers.

Duck bills can be trimmed by cold-cutting with scissors, cutting with a hot blade that cauterizes the bill stump, and tip-searing by holding the end of the bill against a cautery blade for a few seconds.
The tip of the upper duck bill contains thousands of sensory receptors that are used for detecting edible food items as well as harmful stimuli such as excessive heat or pressure. These sensory receptors may be lost when ducks are bill-trimmed, resulting in permanent deprivation of important sensory information.

Many ducks die from infection or starvation after this traumatic mutilation.

Ducks’ Eggs

In the wild, the female duck lays 8 eggs, two to three times a year. In the egg production farms, the ducks are genetically altered to produce 300 eggs per year, more than 11 times of their ancestors. This huge amount of eggs female ducks are forced to lay, results in weak fragile bones, which snap easily, since they use their calcium resources in order to produce the egg shell.

Another torment caused by genetic manipulation is the horrific disease called egg peritonitis, which causes the inflammation of the ovaries and raptures in the reproductive tracts, and dooms the helpless ducks to a slow agonizing death.
Corpses of the victims are usually left to rot on the floor, causing more diseases and terror among the survivors.

The Murder

The ducklings in the meat industry, who manage to endure the dire conditions for 7 weeks, are stuffed into crates and transported to the slaughterhouse. During this manhandling and crushing, their legs often break.

At the slaughterhouse, they are grabbed and hung upside down by their legs (broken or not) on a conveyor system. In some countries, the regulations are that the duck’s heads are supposed to be dipped into an electrical water bath that is supposed to stun them before the slaughter, however the majority of ducks are not stunned at all, and are knifed fully conscious because the stunning systems are not suited for ducks.

Duck meat is a product of animal concentration camps.
Every duck wings, legs and breast someone eats is a vote in favor of those camps.
As strange as it may sound to you, explanations are also a vote in favor of those camps.

Choosing to explain to humans that it is wrong to exploit animals is accepting their superiority, their tyranny.
As long as you choose to explain to someone that it is wrong to exploit, you accept the fact that it is the exploiter’s choice.
Humans decide whether or not to change the way they treat nonhuman animals.
It is their decision whether or not nonhuman animals are a part of the moral community.

You can give them all the information you have and show them all the photos and videos you can get, use every argument you know and deconstruct every excuse they argue, but it is still their call.

The abusers should not get the chance to decide whether to stop abusing or not.
Why are you giving the abusers the choice?