Did I mention the Ducks?

Well, nice long sleep with no weird dreams, ok, rephrase that, no gory dreams, as mine are always a bit odd, its the nature of dreams isn't it?
I was rearranging a house with an ex, although the house and the ex kept changing,  and setting up a stall selling clothes and food in the market. And why not? :)
AH yes, ducks. We had 7 to begin with, they were a 'rescue'. They roam freely in my mini field all day, and tucked up in their duck house (which was a present for my 40th birthday from my mum) at night. But, we have lost 3. Fox? Nah, they kill all of them at once usually. We have lots of mink round here, and they tend , my farmer friend tells me, to steal one at a time. So, we are down from 6 or 7 eggs a day to 3 or 4, and recently down to 1 or 2 .. I thought it was down to the season or something else random, but having wandered the field last week, found little 'nests' dotted about with eggs which will now be 'off'. So, less for me to sell at the local deli, and less for us to eat! Trouble is, having left the back half of the field to be wild, I cannot get trough it to check for any eggs at the back of the wilderness. Dammit! These ducks are too cunning for me!
Wish I could train my dog to go find the eggs and carry them to me! Don't laugh, my farmer friends daughter HAS trained her springer spaniel to do just that for their chicken eggs - if he delivers them to her without dropping them, he gets biscuits! How fab is that? Will she hire him to me?!
Now all that is fine and dandy, the sack of food costs £6 and last 2 or 3 weeks, plus scraps from us, so they don't cost us really, but the issue now, since I'm all "ill and feeble", is the ...
Mucking Out Of The Duck Shed.  Hmmm. Teenage girls are NOT tempted. May have to resort to bribery. I do have friends next door with lads of 19 and 25, and am thinking of recruiting them too!