- I turned over a large upside-down plant pot and there she was! I snatched her up and took her to food and water and she moved back and forth between the two. She has been telling me all about it -LOL! Thank goodness I found her! I don't know how much longer she would have lasted without water. She was in there for well over 48 hours. She seems a little worse for wear (looks a bit ragged), but is already grazing with the other girls. I'm a little worried about how red her face is - I just looked through some photos from a couple of months ago and I think this is a normal look for her. 
I am so relieved! I let my chickens out to free range in the chicken yard Sunday morning, then went to town to run a couple of errands. I was gone maybe two hours. When I came home and started to work on the chicken coop I'm building and decided to stop and give the chickens a treat. That's when I noticed that Fling, my Salmon Faverolle was missing! There was no trace of her - no feathers, no signs of a struggle. Usually if something sinister has happened, the other chickens are traumatize and hiding, but everyone else was acting normally.
I searched high and low for her, but she was no where to be found - on top of the pen, under the coop, behind things, even under a tarp I have over the wood I'm using to build the coop. I walk both sides of the fence line and all around the immediate area. I thought she might return to roost, but she didn't. I had almost given up hope when I was still unable to find any trace of her by dark yesterday. I decided to search the forums to see if there was anything I miss in the case of a chicken that went missing without a trace. I saw a couple of posts things falling on them and the chickens getting trapped under something, so today I did one more sweep of the chicken yard looking under things one more time.
And that's when I found her
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I'm laughing but I'm just thinking about how many times you're going to have to do something like this with Fling lol! Faverolles are goofy little things. I wouldn't worry about her face, my girls redden up sometimes.
I can only imagine that she tried to perch on the edge of the pot, but since it was empty it flipped over on top of her instead. Maybe if she made as much noise when she was trapped and I was calling "chick, chick, chick" as she did after I freed her, I would have found her sooner. Goof-ball!!
Double Creek Faverolles is located in Texas. Although I don’t have any direct experience with them, the birds on their Facebook page are gorgeous.
Thanks so much! That’s exactly the breeder I was looking for!
