Sneaky little red-orange tuxedo flew away!!! EDIT: She's back!

[rachel]

Who knew those birds were *so* good at flying. One escaped when I was switching out something in their pen. Any other time that's happened I just reach down and pick them up and put them back. This time that thing was all the way across the yard and then over the fence and off to who knows where in about 10 seconds. I wish it wouldn't have been a hen, and a hen of a neat color on top of that. Argh.

Maybe she will get lonely and come back to visit her buddies.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

check just after nightfall by the pen she might be snuged up next to her buddies

 

[rachel]

Thanks I'll do that. I figure if she's not there tonight, then she's gone for good.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

I had one show up a few days latter,

 

[AHappychick]

that just happened to me with an a&m hen. I chased and got all cut up in a rose bush but the stupid thing went straight in the cats direction instead of mine. it was over quickly I could not stop it. couldnt have been a roo

sorry about your pretty quail

 

[WriterofWords]

I had some escape last year and they all came back over a 3 day period.

 

[rachel]

Well, guess who was sitting on my back patio. My husband and I went to catch her and of course she flew off again like a speed demon, but she tried to fly onto the neighbors roof and missed. She smacked into the side of his house pretty good and fell underneath a tree, she was pretty stunned and we just scooped her up. Hopefully she's not hurt, we're happy to have her back.

 

[First To Hatch]

that just reminded me of the time my brother, brother-in-law, and myself ran after a a&m hen on 2 acres good thing she was white otherwise i wouldnt of been able to catch her

 

[kingmt]

Congrats

 

[monarc23]

haha i lost some of my coturnix today caught all again, but the last one i thought was a gonner i found her 5 hours later under a bush near my dogs potty area lol! she layed an egg somewhere while she was out too