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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow

Lovely photos, ❤️ thanks for sharing! Yes as @sourland mentioned above, it's possible she's gone broody and is setting on eggs somewhere. Keeping my fingers crossed this is the case!

Make yourself at home here and welcome to our community!
 
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TwoCrows said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow

Lovely photos, ❤️ thanks for sharing! Yes as @sourland mentioned above, it's possible she's gone broody and is setting on eggs somewhere. Keeping my fingers crossed this is the case!

Make yourself at home here and welcome to our community!
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I just got home and she has returned but only to eat so hard she looked like she was having trouble and back into the woods she went. 😭
 
Exopoulterer said:
I just got home and she has returned but only to eat so hard she looked like she was having trouble and back into the woods she went. 😭
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Sounds like she has a secret nest going on somewhere!
 
Helga returned for a few minutes just to eat. She was extremely hungry, ate, and left. Maybe she has eggs in the woods? I am so glad she is still around but not glad that she appears very hungry and stressed.
 

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Exopoulterer said:
Helga returned for a few minutes just to eat. She was extremely hungry, ate, and left. Maybe she has eggs in the woods? I am so glad she is still around but not glad that she appears very hungry and stressed.
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Typical behavior of a sneaky broody and her hidden nest of eggs! Broodies are leary and cautious, they don't feed often so yes they get quite hungry and thirsty. Make sure the water is right next to the feed so she can get both quickly and back to her nest.
 
Update on Helga.

I was heartbroken that we didn't see her in the next couple of days but my husband saw and fed her yesterday. She even entered the run when he opened the door. However, he would be afraid to trap her on account of the eggs or young she migt be caring for. Our rooster is not loose but the neighbor has some chickens that he can't contain and there is a beautiful black combed rooster among them which has approached and entered our property a few times. It is not impossible for her to have fertile eggs out there somewhere because of that rooster.

We heard a commotion weeks ago coming from the neighbor and it sounded like his own dogs got into his chickens. Sounded pretty bad.
He was hiding when we went to ask if Helga was his but the other neighbor came out and said he only had those other chickens. I don't think he wants to talk to us because my husband has had to tell him more than once to contain his dogs as they come over to our street and attack the cats and get into other neighbor's garbage. They are still loose as well as his remaining pretty chickens. What a mess...

If Helga comes by with chicks, we probably will try to get her safely contained then. She has been desperately hungry and thirsty and her tummy seems hollow looking before the back end bone area in her rear. (Hard to explain that anatomical part but it makes her look scrawny to see that part be concave on her underside, below the breast.)
 
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