My husband came home for lunch today and we always like to take a walk in the yard, check on the animals & garden plants and dream of the day we can look around and see that we have small projects to do and not the huge ones going on right now...lol! Anyway I digress! As we were heading toward the chicken pen we heard a horrible noise and all of the chickens were freaked out, they didn't even come when they heard me call to them like they normally would, they just headed into their coop! We took a quick look in the pen and didn't see anything untoward, so I headed to the coop door and opened it to see what was going on! My husband was still by the pen and walking around it. I did a head count like I always do and noticed that Penny, my redheaded EE was missing. I asked my husband if he saw her in the pen, he said no! So, I closed the coop door and went into the pen and called to the chicks, this time they came rushing down the ramp from the coop to me, but still no Penny! There are a couple of places along the outside of the covered inner shed that we have in the pen where she could have gone, but she wasn't there. Then I saw a bag of feed that I had discounted, I thought it was snugged up tight next to the wall, I gently pulled it forward and there she was cowering behind it! All I could figure is one or more of the other chicks had gone after her...I've actually seen her be kind of a bully a few times...I picked her up, petted & talked gently to her...she didn't even complain like she normally would! I looked her over and didn't see any damage, so I set her down to see if she would get around okay, she seemed fine and still does! It must have been a playground spat and some of the girls decided to take her down a notch, mean girls...that is just idle speculation...
