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    Different clucking sounds

    Yes! Unless there are others that are brown with those golden neck feathers, I think you nailed it. Seeing this one actually fly really surprised me since I didn't think chickens could fly more than a few feet and even then barely off the ground. But thank you for the information. Take it easy...
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    Different clucking sounds

    Hmm. Looking online I see that the Brown Leghorn earlobes are white, but on this one I don't see any white, more like a pale grayish. Even though it's dark brown and with cool golden feathers around the neck.
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    Different clucking sounds

    I do not know. I think I might have noticed the contrast if they were white when she previously came pretty close to me. I'll have to see if I can get close enough to see for sure if and when she returns.
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    Different clucking sounds

    Thank you for the suggestions. But I don't want her to rely on me for food. I'd have no idea what to do if she needed help. I was concerned that she wasn't foraging and just wanted to see if she'd eat if I gave her something. Maybe she was taking some time off and I interrupted and annoyed her...
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    Different clucking sounds

    Oh come on! You're going to get me into trouble! (Just kidding!) BUT... I looked out there about an hour ago and there she was, back again. She spent several minutes just standing in one place, then moved around a little not foraging. I thought maybe she was just taking a break. So, a few...
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    Different clucking sounds

    I did once when she didn't appear to be actively foraging. I thought she might have been sick so I tossed a small piece of bread in her direction and she raced to it. I didn't know chickens could run that fast. I continued for a few minutes, including a raisin every few tosses and eventually she...
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    Different clucking sounds

    Thank you for the "welcome" and for the reply. The funny thing is I actually liked the darn thing. I couldn't get near her when she first appeared and when I tried, she'd duck behind a bush. When I tried to follow her, she'd circle the bush and if I changed direction she'd circle back the other...
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    Different clucking sounds

    Silly question? A Brown Leghorn chicken that moved into my backyard a couple of weeks ago seems to have flown the coop, again. Then yesterday evening I heard clucking from probably a street over, but the clucking was a little different. Instead of a consistent "cluck, cluck, cluck..." it was...
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    Chicken nesting?

    Thank you for the replies. No picture. My camera's broken and I don't have a smart phone. But the dust bath makes sense since she was kind of flapping her wings a bit. It's a Brown Leghorn that someone must have been keeping that got away. So I don't know whether there's a rooster in the...
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    Chicken nesting?

    A wayward chicken moved into my residential backyard a couple of weeks ago that I thought might have been sick the last couple of days because it didn't appear to be actively foraging. But when I looked out there this "cold" South Florida morning, first I thought it was foraging and digging for...
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    Stopped clucking

    Sorry to impose again on you kind people, but when I looked out this morning this chicken was foraging in kind of a listless way, then the next time I looked she was just standing there looking around. Checked again a few minutes later and the same thing. Just standing. I've called the Humane...
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    Stopped clucking

    Thank you. And thanks for the reply. I fed her a bit because I thought the absent clucking might have been because she was hungry or sick. And since I'm not inclined to want to raise/care for "livestock" I'll let her continue to do what she otherwise seems naturally content to do. Thanks again...
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    Stopped clucking

    Thank you for that. That's a relief. I am wondering regarding occasionally giving it pieces of bread or raisins or something if it would be better to just let it continue to forage so it doesn't come to rely on the small amounts I'd give it. Thanks.
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    Stopped clucking

    New on here, know nothing about chickens. What I've identified as a Brown Leghorn showed up in my South Florida backyard a couple of weeks ago going around foraging and clucking a lot. It hangs out in a row of bushes against a fence. When I tried to approach, it runs away. But I noticed a couple...
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