CHICKENS ESCAPED AND SLEEPING IN TREE!!

[ben0125]

My girls did this when I let them free range and they'd make random nests everywhere and by the time I'd find them there'd be 15 eggs and broody hen in a bush. I'm not sure about American predators but from what I know I'd put the hens back in their coop

Wait so they won't lay in the nesting boxes? Will they come back into the run in the morning?? I think I should lock them in the coop for longer till they know it'
s they're home.

 

[ben0125]

If you don't have a rooster you can play rooster sounds to try and lure them back. Every goofy wild hen I've ever had would come to see if there was a premise of a man bird being around. I had an old crippled up rooster named cheese just for that purpose when I had game hens.

Well, our neighbours have a very loud rooster and he's still crowing. Maybe they went to the neighbours??

 

[ben0125]

This is a very ingenious idea! Thank you for posting. My hens have not yet run away (but it could happen) so I'll remember this trick. I checked on YouTube and there are many videos with sound entitled "Rooster calling hens". Perhaps the OP could use one of these, turned up loud, to lure his girls back.

Could you link me a good one?

 

[Chickassan]

This is a definite possibility.

Well, our neighbours have a very loud rooster and he's still crowing. Maybe they went to the neighbours??

 

[ben0125]

This is a definite possibility.

We have been looking for an hour now, still cant find them

 

[Debutante]

Could you link me a good one?

Absolutely! (Although I'm not much of a judge of what hens find charming)... try any of these. The first four are roosters calling hens for food. The last one is a compilation of different roosters crowing:

GOOD LUCK!!! Let us know if your ladies return.

 

[ben0125]

Absolutely! (Although I'm not much of a judge of what hens find charming)... try any of these. The first four are roosters calling hens for food. The last one is a compilation of different roosters crowing:

GOOD LUCK!!! Let us know if your ladies return.

I did the last one, but who knows how far away they are and how well they can hear

 

[AllenK RGV]

what breed were they in the first place? just curious as I came to this thread thinking of Sumatra.

 

[ben0125]

Did they come back?

One of them came back to lay an egg and we locked it in the coop then the other came back to the coop and they were both in there. But these birds are so scared and untamed that when we went to clip the wings at night they busted open a locked door (now broken) and haven't come back since. We still see them around roaming on our property and dust bathing. They escaped around 4 days ago and don't wont to go back to the coop. As for the other chicken, shes found the other 2 and they just play around on the property.

 

[ben0125]

what breed were they in the first place? just curious as I came to this thread thinking of Sumatra.

I'm not to sure of 2 of them as the people we got them from didn't know but I think one is a light Sussex. And I was told the other two could be silver laced Orpingtons or wyandottes?