Stray Chicken?

If one of your birds got lost from your flock, would you want your neighbor to return her?
One morning I woke up and found a chicken in my back yard. One of the first things I did was post an ad on our local Facebook stating I found her. No one replied, she was thin but beautiful. White leghorn I named her chicky and about a month later she started gifting me eggs.
 
I live in an industrial, mfg. Area of town on a very busy street. This stray just showed up one day and has been here for about 5 weeks. I am completely chicken ignorant. I have no safe place for her and am very worried a dog will get her. Now she's laying eggs and I'm more worried. She is beautiful. There no roosters or chickens around so I know she must be lonely. I never knew there were stray chickens.
 
About a week or two ago I woke up one morning to find a strange chicken in my yard hanging with all my birds. We have about half an acre fenced in with livestock fence and a coop with hen house in the back yard. I currently have 4 hens, 4 ducks and 3 goats that all share the backyard together. This chicken shows up in the morning, stays all day long and then at night my girls go up to the coop and this stray chicken goes "home"? I'm not sure.

Anyway, tonight when I went down to to lock my birds up, this stray chicken is totally hanging out in my hen house. I'm not sure if it's a hen or roo as I have never had roos before. But he/she is not used to being handled as it flipped out when I petted it.

Has anyone ever heard of a stray chicken? Has it adopted us? I don't mind keeping it, it integrated itself into my flock (Gosh I hope it is not ill as their was no quarantine). This just totally weirded me out!

Any insights or similar stories would be helpful!
Sometimes birds get spooked and scatter. We just lost six of our hens about 2wks ago. Snow storm came early, it was a beautiful day so the birds were out when the storm hit. Some scattered to the woods and others went to the coop. So far only 1 came back we're still missing 6. I've thought about checking with the neighbors but we are all pretty far apart so who knows.. But I would think chickens being flock birds they may seek out a flock if separated from their own.
 
I live in an industrial, mfg. Area of town on a very busy street. This stray just showed up one day and has been here for about 5 weeks. I am completely chicken ignorant. I have no safe place for her and am very worried a dog will get her. Now she's laying eggs and I'm more worried. She is beautiful. There no roosters or chickens around so I know she must be lonely. I never knew there were stray chickens.
Answered here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...scovered-on-11-eggs-under-junked-car.1306737/
 
Well that is certainly different. I wonder if someone someplace close has a couple of birds and one got loose. Not sure how big your yard is but if you have room for a dog like kennel, I would think that would be plenty big for 1 bird, just need some kind of shelter to keep her out of the rain and she'll reward you with a fresh egg a day..
 
If one of your birds got lost from your flock, would you want your neighbor to return her?
We lost 6 in a freak snow storm. The flock scattered, 6 hit the woods running and we haven't seen them since. I've got 7 Rhode Islands in the brooder to replace them. I think if they showed up at a neighbors I would hope they would either let them join their flock or return them. Either way I'm good as long as they're treated right. We lose birds to predators, not often but it does happen. It sucks but that's how nature is. I'd rather see my neighbor have them then a fox or something.
 

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