The ducks get locked into their run of an evening. They are a bit haphazard about where they lay eggs - they usually lay in the morning - so we keep them locked up until mid-morning to stand a chance of knowing where they have laid eggs.
But the drake didn't appear with them one evening . he had been limping a bit for a couple of days.
And a couple of days later we eventually found him .
And we think its was probably a hungry otter - the otter has got into the chest and eaten the contents ( heart and lungs)
And it was our only drake. So we are on the lookout for a replacement. If we wnat to try and hatch some ducklings we will need a drake to do the business.
