I am so glad your sweet girl came back, I just wanted to say we recently lost 3 hens to a neighbor's dog. Please, please watch out for that dog....this one now knows where we live and won't stay away from our hens, trying to kill them. It has caused a massive rift with our neighbors who won't lock their dog up, and tomorrow animal control is headed over to take their dog away from them. Again, I am so, SO glad she came back to you
I had my rooster go missing at night and I was heartbroken then I heard him crowing around 5:30 in the morning. I went stumbling out in the dark calling "HOSS!" a Hallmark moment for sure.
Love happy endings!
But this might not be the ending with your neighbor's dog if this was the first time it had ever chased your chickens. As a lot of the dog -as- predator posts note the first time is normally not the last time.