I think your link is busted. Or it has been overwhelmed.

Until I can see more details, I'm not sure what he was doing. $120/meal? It sounds like a lot of that was in livestock loss. Either he had no clue (probably) or he was set up (not sabotaged, just give bad advise or otherwise boned by someone- the localvores are not without opponents), both in the garden and in the hutch.

And I'm afraid in his shoes, I'd have still eaten the ducks. Little kid doesn't like it, tough. But I'm also an ogre.