New hens escape temporary pen

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LGKChickens

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I would love some help! I purchased 2 hens last night, and have had them in a temporary pen next to my coop. They were fine early this morning when I checked on them and gave them food. Then While drinking my coffee, I noticed the EE on top of my Chicken yard. When I went out to investigate, the other hen also escaped and went up onto the fence. They came down, but now they are behind the Chicken coop and yard in the bushes. I tried to coax them with shacking some feed in a cup. Did not work. How do I get them back? They are used to free-ranging all day. Should I just wait till it starts to get dark and see where they decided to sleep for the night?
 
LGKChickens said:
I would love some help! I purchased 2 hens last night, and have had them in a temporary pen next to my coop. They were fine early this morning when I checked on them and gave them food. Then While drinking my coffee, I noticed the EE on top of my Chicken yard. When I went out to investigate, the other hen also escaped and went up onto the fence. They came down, but now they are behind the Chicken coop and yard in the bushes. I tried to coax them with shacking some feed in a cup. Did not work. How do I get them back? They are used to free-ranging all day. Should I just wait till it starts to get dark and see where they decided to sleep for the night?
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Welcome to BYC! Glad you joined the flock! You can try to coax them out with putting a pan of feed out in the open so you can catch them and pen them up again. Watch them to see where they are escaping.
 
They don't seem to be interested in feed at all. I put feed out, but they just are staying in the bushes. I think maybe the stress of the move has made them not very hungry.
 
Birdrain92 said:
Maybe. Give it a couple hours for them to settle down a bit.
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Wil do. I would hate to loose them and have some predator make them dinner. The smaller mixed hen is a known broody.She is about the size of my Sicilian buttercup hen.
 
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I'm glad your new birds are back in their temporary pen. Did you figure out how they escaped? I'd be concerned that if the chickens can get out, then something else can get in.
 
NorthFLChick said:
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I'm glad your new birds are back in their temporary pen. Did you figure out how they escaped? I'd be concerned that if the chickens can get out, then something else can get in.
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I think they pushed open the top. I put them in the garage at night so no predators will go after them. I spent most my day making sure the hawk that likes to visit didn't make them dinner.
 

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