Baby Ducks

About a week ago, we spent an entire day building a deluxe duck enclosure for the white Mascovi (sp?) ducks that Neil and Su own.  There are about 25 ducks in all.  After spending the whole day building the enclosure and a thatched roof hut for the ducks to rest inside, we ran around catching the birds one by one until all 25 ducks had been transfered to their new house.  We were hoping that the ducks would like their new home just as much as the chickens had been enjoying their new coup.  Unfortunately, we were moving the ducks from an area next to a pond to an area with no pond at all.  After catching the ducks and putting them in the new house we left them for the night.  The next morning we arrived at the farm to find that every single duck had escaped from the new house and returned to their old area by the pond.  Oh well....   At least the empty duck enclosure looks nice.  There were two ducks that have been sitting on nests full of eggs.  One nest had a total of 19 eggs in it and Neil discovered yesterday that all the eggs had hatched!