After a long weekend of cleaning barns and making compost piles, I woke up with a craving for eggs. Luckily we introduced 4 Mallard ducks into Mom's pond a few years back. 4 ducks soon turned into 50, then their numbers began to shrink gradually through attrition (and the families of fox that moved in). These days we try to keep the population around 15. With 8 ducks producing eggs, there are plenty to go around if you can find them before the Great Pyrenees do.