The neighborhood is silent...

[koko365]

Hello to all my chicken friends.

I should be posting photos of my new Coop (which has finally been build - although the paint is just white primer as yet - and it's been in my backyard for about two months now), (i've just gotten so busy)... My three "regulars" 2 hens and a rooster had been playing inside and around it, but since they are free-range they had remained sleeping in the tree above it at night. Every now and then one of the hens would seem to go missing for a few days to a week or two at a time, but then she would come back; then the other hen (one is more black-colored the other more brown-colored) would go missing... but now there must be something wrong. Two days ago it was only the rooster who came running towards me when he saw me and I felt so sad for him without his girls. I usually toss out a handful of meal worms whenever they visit and put fresh water and an occasional handful of mealworms in the coop. However, now it has been nearly 5 days and there is no sight of any of them and it seems like all the neighborhood roosters are even silent. Used to be I could hear 3 or 4 of them in the distance calling out "goodnight" but now nothing. Just silence. What could it be??? Have they been eaten or taken? There are no feathers...no clues.

 

[WthrLady]

They're under a bush sitting on a pile of eggs.

 

[koko365]

wow! I only hope that's true. I'm pretty worried about them actually. There has been no sight or sound from them in over a week now. (sorry I got my days mixed up in the first post... too late at night). lol. They had been here in my yard since before Christmas and that's why I built the coop... but now they seem to be gone. (guess I'm sad about it).

 

[koko365]

I was also wondering if they might have been caught or taken and eaten?

 

[Sequel]

I was also wondering if they might have been caught or taken and eaten?

That would be very possible. Good on you for building them a coop, maybe you'll get lucky and they'll be back with a clutch of chicks!

 

[koko365]

I sure hope you are right. Thank you.

 

[Sequel]

I sure hope you are right. Thank you.

Someone who builds a coop for homeless chickens has to have earned some good karma.

 

[BYC910]

Your in a area loaded with extra predators . Maybe set some game cameras and see what comes around in the dark.

 

[mowin]

Yrs ago we had free range chickens. One spring 2 hens started disappearing each day. Then were gone for a few days straight. After a week we started seeing them come back for a bite to eat every couple days. Eventually, both came back followed by chicks.

Really hope this is what you are dealing with.

 

[koko365]

Someone who builds a coop for homeless chickens has to have earned some good karma.

Thanks so much for that kind thought. By the way... today is my first sighting of one of the brown hens. She used to come running right over, but today she stayed a fair distance, but kept looking. I think she might be a little skittish without the other hen and rooster. I have no idea where she has been or where the others are, but I'm hopeful they might come back sometime now. Other people were telling me that it might be some Haitians that took them to eat or use in some ceremony, but...?