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How nice that your muscovies go back by themselves at night. I wasn't so lucky. Mine would inevitably fly up and roost on our roof. Got to be quite a mess.And on the subject of herding Muscovies...I have four of them and they are always the last ones to go in at night. I just walk behind them and herd them w/ my hands and they go right in. If they do any flying, they just fly right into their pen. I love'em.
BTW, what you're talking about is not herding. Herding is when you get your ducks (or geese, sheep, goats, etc.) to go somewhere that they DON'T want to go. ie. through the narrow open gate of the garden, or into the door of a new coop, corral or even a carrier. My ducks are pretty used to going out durring the day, but when I have to leave early and they're not ready to come in yet it can be very hard to get them all to cooperate and get them back into their corral.
A herding dog would round them up and chase them in the direction I want them to go...... whether it be into their corral, their coop, or even into the middle of the road if I wanted.