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Dusk. My broody Hepzibah is roosting in the little coop. I'm collecting feed tubs when Morrigu & Aoife both make a break for it & manage to slide under the bare gap @ the gate. I have horrible visions of Campines roosting up trees. Aoife is just circling the run but Morrigu is doing her mad woman impersonation. 
I manage to nab her when she hops in the hay bin & put her back where she belongs. Aoife does not want to be caught but suddenly realises it's getting a little dark for comfort but now the coop gate is closed & goes ballistic. I try squeezing the gate open for her & Morrigu shoots out. I crowd her against the little coop nab her & shove her in there. Everybody else has gone to roost so I open the gate right up & Aoife shoots in like lightening & straight up the stairs. I fish Morrigu out & put her back in the big coop to find Wrold is in a nesting box so nab her & put her in with Hepzibah. Morrigu stops screaming, gets in a nesting box, starts tossing bits around & making the oddest noises I've ever heard. I fished 2 eggs out of the hay bin & am pretty certain one of them was hers because that's her preferred laying place. I will be flabbergasted if that hen goes broody on me because she's completely & utterly feral! I was only gone one night & tonight was complete bedlam! It was like managing a lunatic asylum where the lunatics have got loose. 
I've left them to it. 
If I can work up the energy I'll check again before I go to bed ~ but it could be so depressing I might just leave it all for the morning.
I manage to nab her when she hops in the hay bin & put her back where she belongs. Aoife does not want to be caught but suddenly realises it's getting a little dark for comfort but now the coop gate is closed & goes ballistic. I try squeezing the gate open for her & Morrigu shoots out. I crowd her against the little coop nab her & shove her in there. Everybody else has gone to roost so I open the gate right up & Aoife shoots in like lightening & straight up the stairs. I fish Morrigu out & put her back in the big coop to find Wrold is in a nesting box so nab her & put her in with Hepzibah. Morrigu stops screaming, gets in a nesting box, starts tossing bits around & making the oddest noises I've ever heard. I fished 2 eggs out of the hay bin & am pretty certain one of them was hers because that's her preferred laying place. I will be flabbergasted if that hen goes broody on me because she's completely & utterly feral! I was only gone one night & tonight was complete bedlam! It was like managing a lunatic asylum where the lunatics have got loose. I've left them to it. If I can work up the energy I'll check again before I go to bed ~ but it could be so depressing I might just leave it all for the morning.
And neither of them really wanted to be where they were! 
