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Wow. Illinois weather is...something else. Another storm. But instead of pouring rain, it is now a DUST storm. Both within the same week... just wow. My Moderns were in drop pens, and my 5 chicks running free. I saw the cloud about a half a mile away at the neighbors, and yelled “Sh*t” taking...

Yes, I put a little bit of feed in an old metal bud light bucket and rattle it like crazy, and they’ll come running from the barn. I also open a window and call really loudly they will ALL swarm the window. (They get house scraps from here so they always show up). I tried both ways, still no...

Update: Hen is still missing. Any ideas? She was seen half an hour before the storm, in the run when I was feeding. She went to free tange by the garden shed, but is not in there. When should I give up hope of her coming back?

Update:round two of the storm left us powerless for about 20 seconds, thank God it wasn’t longer!! Otherwise we’d have an incubator of dead chicks! Incubators are all reset, and running fine. Our log pile was knocked over by a fallen tree limb, but nothing more. Missing hen is still missing...

Yikes!! Just got a thunderstorm with some 70 mike per hour wind gusts! Nothing to badly damaged, thankfully! We have a missing hen, but for now I’m not too worried, she probally found a place to hide until it was over. I was working in the coop, to suddenly be hammered with sudden wind and rain...