My favorite black copper maran did that 1 time. He went missing for 3 days. On the third day we got a call from the sheriff's office (20 miles from our house, where my sister-in-law worked). They said that they remember her saying that our favorite rooster went missing and there was a large...
My mother-in-law can tell a BIG difference in store bought and fresh eggs. We lost all of our chickens to a raccoon family last year and had to do without fresh eggs for a while. I didn't tell my mother-in-law for almost a month that we lost all the birds and we just swapped the eggs thinking...