D'oh! Things were busy here yesterday.
Believe it or not, I got the weirdest trick-or-treater EVER on Halloween just as the sun set.
My puppy kept going to the sliding glass door and scratching (usually he's just playing with his reflection) and whining. I finally got up to look and lo and behold, Stumpy was there, in the neighbor's side yard, looking really CONFUSED and bedraggled.
Needless to say, it turned into a Benny Hill routine for me to try to CATCH her, even with her having a bad limp but I DID finally catch her.
She's a bit gimpy on that side but doesn't seem to have any obvious skeletal damage. She had some big patches of missing feathers and a few bad scrapes, which I cleaned up and put ointment on (BTW, it is NOT easy to clean up a peeved hen...or put medicine on her), and returned her to the coop. She promptly laid 2 eggs.
Funny thing is, there's a hole under the neighbor's house on that side of the yard, and his outdoor mouser kept coming to me EVERY time I came out of the house...and she isn't a friendly cat by any means. I guess she was trying to tell me she had an unwelcome guest! LOL!