[slowef]

Derrrrrrrrrrr  :idea:  :idea:  :idea:
How thick am I, missing chicken, less banty eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must be a broody girl She has disappeared again after calling at the door for some food this morning now nowhere to be seen again.
 :?
She must have a nest somewhere and is sitting.  The question is where, I have searched the whole garden outhouses garages etc and not a sign.  I found a pile of eggs under a hedge but no hen so she must be elsewhere.  I want to find her and the eggs to relocate her to a safe place, maybe if I can't find her it is safe but I don't have the nose of a fox   It must be dry and well hidden so I can only think it must be a building, any ideas:idea:  where else I can look I am assuming it won't be outdoors.

Either that or wait 21 days till she appears with some littluns in tow

[Aunt Sally]

    The little minx  

You might have to wait until she reappears tomorrow for food and then do some undercover surveillance  

[Selkie]

Like Auntie said, you'll have to follow her from a distance next time she comes looking for food.

Maybe she's up in a tree, like Dave's duck :shock:

[Bodger]

If you want the eggs she's sitting on to hatch. Prepare a darkened area for her with a nest. Do as Aunt sally suggests but if you find her, don't lift her in the day time but go back when its dark and take a friend :roll: One of you lift the bird, the other the eggs. Put the eggs in the prepared nest and close her in the small coop or better still a box and hope for the best.

[babe]

thats wonderful news.   glad she's safe

[WG.]

Maybe she has eloped into a tree with daveinmanc's drake  :shock:

[slowef]

Well I have searched every nook and cranny but with no luck so I am going to do as suggested and wait till tomorrow and stalk her

I have had several batches of eggs hatched by broodys so think I'm ok with the procedure now and I have a couple of suitable hutches I can use, she was always happier in the garage and the others don't go in there so I think thats where I will put her when I find the nest of course.

Watch this space then, Sherlock Holmes here I come  

Do you think she could be up a tree?  cant see she has built a nest as its so windy here it would have blown away I did look but couldn't see any, thought chickens were low nest birds :?: confused now

Dave check your duck hasn't got my Silkie please   I would love to see my ducks up a tree they are huge the branches would break  :shock: