odds of runaway chook coming home?

[MitchyInge]

I do blame the dog, he showed her how to get to the garden next door where my daughter now lives, and they sat very patiently together on the back step waiting to surprise her - like a game of hide and seek. Anyway she came home with him and had breakfast with the only other chicken left, but at some point today she must have escaped again. Has been spotted in a neighbour's garden and I can see where she has stopped to scratch about all the way there.

Really hoping she will know how to get back (have left trail of corn) but if not is she likely to try and roost somewhere safe? There are a LOT of chickens at the end of the lane, maybe she will go and live with them tonight?

She's an ex-batt, if that signifies anything at all.

Ahh no. Has she come home yet? I didn't realise you'd already lost one.

I love the idea of your daughter coming home to dog + chicken sitting on doorstep going "surprise"

Sorry to say we have only ever gor escapees back by going to fetch them - they have never appeared to be able to find the hole they went through in the first place, even when I am standing on the right side of the fence shaking a pot of corn.

She'll have roosted somewhere by now. My chooks escaped once and I found them at dusk in a neighbour's tree.

Try rattling the corn bin tomorrow or send a search party out to neighbouring gardens.

thank you, she is home - after a bit of unpleasantness, heard commotion outside and found group of 5 or 6 teenage boys tormenting her she was on her way home

might have accidentally slightly 'collided' with one of them to get to her, hope have not injured them - am mild danger to society sometimes

argh

but chook seems fine and have fenced them back in safely

Glad she's back. Loving the accidental collision.

slightly worried I will get charged with assault, hopefully this is an irrational fear

thinking about confining them to the run for a while but that would be an awful shame