Later on, rising wage rates cut into profits as the price of eggs remained steady. Improvements in artificial insemination also meant that semen from a single drake could be used to impregnate 70 or 80 ducks in a single day. The great days of duck rearing were over, and today only a handful of Erh-lung duck breeders are still in business.
後因工資提高、鴨價漲幅卻不大，加上科技發達，一隻公鴨藉人工授精，一日可與七、八十隻母鴨交配，種鴨繁殖盛況便一去不回，目前村內只剩五、六戶養鴨人家。