Sorry to hear about your missing hens. Get a game cam or something. Without having proof someone stole them it's just a guess. Anything is possible, not ruling out theft, but could be a number of things.
Thanks again everyone for all the love. I really do appreciate it. Got the game cam today and so now waiting for hubby to get home and install it for me. I also went and got 2 new laying hens. I got a wyandotte and a Leghorn.
That's awful! I'm glad you posted your story though because I've got a co-worker who suspects someone stole her rooster. He was a very pretty Easter Egger. Now I'll consider TWO legged predators when making sure my girls are secure at night not just four. It's not too hard to add a padlock to the design we've got in mind. I'd be devastated if someone stole my hens.
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2 legged preds are pretty bad for a few reasons. If they have their own chickens they bring in unfamiliar pathogens to your flock. My girls are secure and their area is secured also- motion lights, 100lb barking dog, and by an almost 2 acre electric net fence! It's hard to see at night. Extra Highly powered too
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Yes. That's a hard one. I was always told that if they stole if from you, because they had no choice but to sin to save their own life, you should forgive immediately.
I doubt that's the case with OP's chickens though - they took the little ones - likely to keep as their own pet. They had to go far from her road and close to her house. Bad Bad Sad