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Odds are he will roost in a different location tomorrow night if he lives that long or you do not pen him up first. That may mean a more accessible location for your efforts. Many times I have searched for such in high weeds with a flashlight. He may yet drift to a porch light yet tonight.

While you had your fun, I policed up a hen that was roosting down inside some equipment. She is not one to run. She roosts there to avoid Great-horned Owl.
 
centrarchid said:
Odds are he will roost in a different location tomorrow night if he lives that long or you do not pen him up first. That may mean a more accessible location for your efforts. Many times I have searched for such in high weeds with a flashlight. He may yet drift to a porch light yet tonight.

While you had your fun, I policed up a hen that was roosting down inside some equipment. She is not one to run. She roosts there to avoid Great-horned Owl.
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I'm gonna stay up as long as my body lets me and keep going outside to check if I see him in a spot that I can catch him. It's supposed to drop to 17° tonight which isn't normal for Louisiana. I hope I can get him and Pebbles.
 
He will be able to handle that temperature without trouble. He will not return to that location this evening.

Odds are he went in a straight line along direction you saw him go. He will be hunkered within or next to a bush. If he ran to a fence line or high grass he will hunker down there. My search image is on the tail as it is most likely to stick out. I doubt he went more than 100 feet from where you last saw him.
 
centrarchid said:
He will be able to handle that temperature without trouble. He will not return to that location this evening.

Odds are he went in a straight line along direction you saw him go. He will be hunkered within or next to a bush. If he ran to a fence line or high grass he will hunker down there. My search image is on the tail as it is most likely to stick out. I doubt he went more than 100 feet from where you last saw him.
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I'm gonna try to build a run by myself tomorrow. I'm not letting the other chickens out until I do. If I have that, hopefully I can leave that open and put food out and they'll just walk in.
 
Newfarmer36 said:
The roosters are a little over a year old I think.
Here's how my situation went. My neighors bought these chickens and roosters and a duck as babies. After they got old enough to get out of the box, they put them in a coop and everyday their 2 youngest kids would go into the coop and chase them and beat the sense out of them. I'd stop them when I saw it happening but I have to work so I couldn't be here all day to watch them. Then they moved out. They left all of them here. I couldn't sit back and watch them all starve to death. So they' mine now. So I'm guess that even though they'll eat out of my hand and follow me around, they just won't trust me to pick them up bc of the beatings they received.
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That’s a sad story.:hit Thank you for your kind heart and willingness to help them. :thumbsup
 
Brahma Chicken5000 said:
@Newfarmer36 were you able to catch all of your chickens?
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I caught all by Red. Unfortunately, Pebbles got out and she's nowhere to be seen this morning.. :( I feel bad bc I clipped her wings. If it was a predator that got her, maybe if she still had her feathers, she could've gotten away. Red has started sleeping in the coop and not with her so if it wasn't a predator, then that means that she froze to death.. it's horrible!
 

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