I have a large natural pond in my garden which has a number of wild ducks on it all year round. Last year we had three new families plus two moorhen families
however, I also have four 'pet' ducks, one white runner hatched by one of my hens, one male runner from an incubator who used to sit on my shoulder and two that I bought from an auction (the male looks like a Swedish and the female is a silver grey with a couple of feathers sticking out from the top of her head - I call them Hinge and Bracket! Now to the point, they don't want to come off the pond at night and although they will come up to feed, are not terribly tame, any ideas what to do as I would like to harvest the eggs but don't know if I will find any! Also I would like some more ducks but am wary of the same thing happening.
Sorry for waffling on, bad habit of mine!!