Neighbors dog just ran my chickens off

[thefishery]

My rooster and two girls were outside for some grazing while we were all outside cleaning up the yard when a dog came out of nowhere. It ran my two hens off before we caught it. Now I can't find my girls and the rooster is in the yard freaking out calling for them.

Are they going to come back?
The guy across the road has a lot of roosters....are my girls going to know that his roosters aren't where they need to be? We don't have a good relationship with that guy and I wouldn't feel safe going over there asking him if he saw them.

We (me and the kids) looked all over the yard in every place we could think before my brilliant son said that one went across the road. Why he didn't give me that information before....I don't know, possibly his brain fell out while the dog was running through the yard.

I know one went one way and the other went the other way. I just came in for the kids to start getting ready for bed and homework. I left Jake outside still freaking out, relentlessly calling his girls. The pin is open for them to go in. I just want to know if they will come home

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

I think they will come back.
Chickens are creatures of habbit and they know where they live. I bet they are just in panic mode and are huddling in trees till they are sure its safe to come down. They should be able to find their way back, especially if the roo is calling for them.
Good luck!

 

[thefishery]

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You think they know the difference between the neighbors roosters and mine?

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

Well, I am not a chicken, and I can tell my 4 roos apart by the crow they do. Even when we still had 6 I always knew who it was by his voice. And chickens spend more time listening to chickens than we do. They know him, they understand him. I only speak a little bit of 'chicken' but its enough to know they have a language that they can speak and I am confident they know who is calling them. If you were lost and you heard voices calling out, you would listen for the one that sounds like your friend, right? They can tell, i am sure.

 

[mdbokc]

Have they come back?