Yup. Even though Fall means a break from the heat (sometimes), It means that I lose almost two hours of daylight at the end of the day, when I need it the most. In other news, I did it again, folks: Last night I got drunk, and bought a few hundred dollars worth of parts from Summit Racing.
Are you providing them with artificial light? I know you have to do that with chickens to keep them laying year round.
No, I don't supplement light. I have a light in there that I've used for training purposes but it's not currently on. In my experience the ducks lay like a machine for the first year or 18mo and then become more seasonal. Their seasonality seems to be based on their molting more than anything. I have a batch of new layers just starting up, and my older ducks are recovering from a late summer molt. I am getting 8 eggs from 11 girls. It's a tossup if the older girls will keep going in the winter or not. Usually they still lay, just not every day.
That could have ended so much worse. But yeah, don't run from ex-football players while in cuffs... you ain't gonna win.
To be fair, it's a special kind of stupid that tries to run when you're handcuffed behind your back. I mean, what was the fucking end game?