[Sandy]

My hubby was getting angry at thier noise and although no neighbour said anything, we felt they may be a bit annoying so they went for a long holiday to a wonderful place, Peel Farm Shop, there the Drake has a lot of ladies to sort out!!! I miss them but not the noise!!!!!

Later in the year I may re consider but we have a few things going on so maybe not!!

[Dizzycow]

We might be one step closer....... Today they ventured (for food) into my very un-sophisticated holding pen, gleefully nicknamed Soweto by my neighbour. Sniff. Now I just need to stop them from escaping when they see me. I need some of that weed barrier stuff tied around it, or something. But eight panicking runners in a confined space worries me a lot, don't want any broken wings. God, chickens are a dawdle compared to this.

[jaykay]

My runners flap and squawk like mad if I corral them but despit heaping up in a great pile they never hurt themselves or each other 

[clydesdaleclopper]

I herd mine using a leg crook and a 4 year old - he's fast 

[lill]

Vikki,
Robert has been put in the bad baby corner for a couple of days for telling the truth as he sees it. 

[Sandy]

Tell Robert he may have his specs confiscated!!

[PetiteGalette]

When we had a duck pond in the middle of the enclosure in Cornwall and the ducks would not get out of it to go to their shelter I used a long piece of old hosepipe as a whip on the water behind them to make them get up the ramp onto the land and then two long canes to direct them into their enclosure and house......................

[OhLaLa]

Buy yourself a large fishing net (the type on a handle that kids use to go fishing with to catch tiddlers - except much larger). Just swoop it down over the bird (one at a time) and you've got it. You can gently get it out of the net without harming it.

[Sandy]

Ducks are cert not as daft as they make out!!

[lill]

Vikki, you not got these ducks caught yet? as Robert says it would be worth it to come over and see you trying to catch them. 

[northfifeduckling]

I must have misread, lill - you must have been writing "and help you trying to catch them" 

[Sylvia]

I'm thinking that by this time you are going to need several people and a long length of netting to herd them into a corner and then drop the net over them. Each person select the duck they're going to catch and swoop

[Dizzycow]

No, Lillian DEFINITELY meant watch me trying to catch them! Put that man back into his corner immediately. 

I might take my camera out with me and record my efforts for you all to ridicule.

[robert waddell]

i take it they are still eluding capture

[lill]

oh vikki, remember they won't run that fast with a broken leg, have you tried a long wire and at the one end make a loop to catch them by the neck,