Pennsylvania: Mystery as forty dead ducks are left along mile stretch of rural Pennsylvania road

PENNSYLVANIA -- Investigators are trying to find out who left more than 40 dead ducks along a rural Pennsylvania road last week.

The birds were left along a more than one-mile stretch of a road in southern Lancaster County, about 50 miles southeast of Harrisburg, on March 16.

Agriculture spokeswoman Brandi-Hunter Davenport told LancasterOnline that tests determined the birds, which all were males, did not die of disease.

The large ducks, believed to be Pekin ducks, weighed about seven pounds each and were about 38 days old.

The birds died of some kind of trauma and were likely dropped from a vehicle that drove along the road.

'We do believe they were likely dropped from a (vehicle),' Hunter-Davenport told LancasterOnline last week. 'They were not hit by cars. It was not just happenstance.'

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said the ducks discovered last week were placed on the road after they were already killed.

'It seems obvious that they were just thrown there,' Christine Mooney, a domestic animal health inspector, told WHTM. 'Now we're trying to determine where they came from. From what I can see there is nothing wrong with them other than they're dead.'

 

After the Department of Agriculture was notified about the carcasses left on the road, staff were seen placing it them in bags ans removing them.

The state police are continuing to investigate who killed and dumped the ducks.

Pekin ducks are breed of domestic ducks that are typically raised on farms and eaten.

(Daily Mail - Mach 24, 2016)