Yesterday was sad......

[jjthink]

Gone, as in missing?
If so, search high and low. You may find her. Sometimes they get stuck and/or injured somewhere and are in a pickle needing someone to rescue.
Hope you find her and that she will be okay.
JJ

 

[tiki244]

I am sorry to hear about the loss of your sweet polish.

 

[chicmom]

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Oh, believe me JJ, we looked and looked and called for her......I will look again today after work.......But I feel that she's gone.

Thanks for the encouragement though!

Sharon

 

[ReikiStar]

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I agree. Maybe something did fly overhead and she took cover. Sometimes they are scared to come out. If you didn't see any evidence (feathers or other chickens upset by an attack) she might have just gone somewhere she's having trouble leaving.

Bring a treat with you that makes a familiar sound. We train our chickens to an oral sound and a food sound (shaking something in a bowl) which they learn to come running to.

Holding out hope she's still somewhere, safe.

 

[chicmom]

I will look for her again....My husband is home now though, and he hasn't seen her.

Here is a pic. She is in the front! Her sister is behind her.....Sis is much bigger although you can't tell in this pic. She was just a little handful, literally. She could lie down in my hand.

 

[harveyhorses]

I am so sorry, that is one of my biggest fears.

, I think it is harder when you don't know what happened.

 

[jjthink]

I'm so sorry she's missing Sharon. I hope by some miracle you find her and she's okay.
JJ

 

[flowergirl60]

I've heard of chickens showing up after days. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'm sorry you can't find her.

 

[hcppam]

Sorry lost one of my sweeties this week too.

 

[Kazzandra]

If there were no signs, I'd expect a dog.

That happened to me one day-- the neighbour's dogs had been plotting it for a week. They had surreptitiously and slowly dug a hole just the size for the smallest beagle to slip through and grab a nearly fully grown standard Ameraucana and pull her through the fence. They didn't leave a feather. They did, however, leave her dead body, completely intact and with a broken neck, under the porch next door. I would have never found her if the meter reader wouldn't have come by and asked if she was mine.

Those dogs sure knew that what they did was wrong. They skulked about that hole for days, returning occasionally for weeks afterward to check and see if that big blob of cement was still there. >

In all of my experience with chickens, there is no predator worse than a dog, because it's so easy to let your guard down. I'm done with free ranging-- I have too small of a flock and too weak of a heart to deal with losing girls to predators.

Rest in peace, Tiny.