Great blog post, Blast.

We tried raising a pair of ducks in our back yard (right in the middle of town) a few years back. We got some hatchlings from a teenager down the street who used to raise them. We called him "Duck Boy".

Unfortunately, just about when they were due to start laying, a predator killed one and then the other a day later. I think it was a hawk - the ducks were just decapitated and not really eaten.

Too bad, we go through a lot of eggs around here.