We were all most worried about illness--about losing the ducks to an epidemic. As a result, duck herders would keep their ears open for news of places where ducks had taken ill and then steer well clear of them.
最怕鴨子得瘟，是不得了的大事。因此趕鴨人家都會一路打聽，傳說哪裡有鴨群得病，就遠遠避開。