Who said it would be a long lengthy legal battle, and yes I will fight when I'm wrongly accused... Generally from my experience a letter and phone calls to the LEO superiors is all it takes to get frivolous accusations tossed, God knows I had plenty of them lodged against me when I had an overly zealous, code enforcement officer in my neighborhood that wrote me dozens of tickets, never paid a fine nor went to court for any of them... Each time he wrote me a frivolous ticket I wrote a note to the chief of police with copies of the laws in question attached and highlighted for clarification... Called to follow up a few days later and a few times even went in to have a face to face if he didn't drop the ticket over the phone... No superior wants egg in their face in front of a judge when you show that you tried to resolve the frivolous ticket outside of court and the superiors couldn't read the law in front of them... My neighborhood finally changed their tune, when someone sued the village and won big time for police and village harassment, they cut a deal did not have to pay the civil reward if they in turn stopped issuing frivolous tickets to the community as a whole and sent the code enforcement officer to get further education...
Fact is it's not a big problem, as you have found out many hatcheries do not mark domestic ducks, if it was a big problem and such a clear violation of laws don't you think they would have been fined out of business long ago? And don't you think there would be numerous post here and in Google searches of people being busted for untagged domestic ducks?
Do me a favor, look up the scientific name of the 'peking duck' and than compare it to the scientific name for rouens and khaki campbell...
We should not be back at the previous point
Anas platyrhynchos ≠ Anas platyrhynchos domesticus
but
Anas platyrhynchos domesticus most certainly is equal to Anas platyrhynchos domesticus
If you want to mark your ducks have at it, may I suggest you simply contact a local tattoo artist and arrange a time outside the shop for them to scribble a few letters or numbers on the webbing, easier than bands or cutting things off, IMO... You can even go to Ebay and order a few 'livestock' tattoo numbers/letters and some ink, no need for the press, just put some ink on a paper plate, dip the letter/number dies into the ink puddle and press into the ducks webbing... Although it would still likely suggest finding a local tattoo artist willing to do it for you for the shop minimum, based on my experience managing a shop and my brother owning it, it probably won't be hard to find an artist willing to tattoo the duck webbing outside the shops back door or at their house or yours...
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