Really worried!!!

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Was hoping i could ask for some advice.

I have 2 warrens living in a large coop with run, after much thinking i decided i was going to get 2 more. 3 days ago, i bit the bullet and went and got 2 more warrens. I read up abut introducing them, and put a small run inside the big run to put the newbies in, as the bigguns were being mean, and just used to put them in the coop at night time, this seems to be what people recommend.
As it was going dark this evening, the big girls went and put themselves to bed, thought we'd leave it for 10 mins before putting the newbies in so that the big girls were settled.
10 mins or so passed, went into the run, and there was only one little un there, cuddled up at the side of the coop.
Searched all over the coop, had the torch out searching high and low, just dont know where she is.. so upset, worried about her being out in the cold and the fox's getting her....
 
Is there any way she could have dug her way out of the run? Does it have a roof, or could have flown out? (Not very likely she'd do this and leave the others when it was getting dark.) No need to worry about the cold yet, chickens can put up with far worse than the mild spell we're having at the moment.

One bright idea - did you actually look in the coop to see if she's put herself to bed in there with the others? If the other one was 'cuddled up at the side of the coop' the lost girl must have been able to get out of her little run also?
 
Thanks fr the quick reply, yes i have tree and fences, but the fences are too high. shes not in the coop. at the bottom of the garden i have what looks like a compost heap, what it is is behind a lot of conifers, its where i shove all the branches from where i cut the conifers. Hoping shes hiding in there.
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Sounds likely - I hope she's OK. Do let us know tomorrow what happens. I expect tomorrow will be a day when you have a good look at your fencing!

Does your coop come right down to the ground? Mine spend a lot of time underneath ours.
 
I have looked in the coop Marigold. Shes not there, and I have a smaller run inside a big run, because they are new girls, I opened the roof of the little run, before i put them to bed. The coop has a roof on, looked around the coop nowhere dug up.. all i can think of is that as it was going dark, perhaps she snook past me and ran out of the door. Going to have another look to see if i can find her.
 
Im sorry not making much sense, the run has a roof, it goes right down to the ground. and there are no escape holes anywhere.
 
Checked the nest box?
Our legbars used to disappear and try as I might I never found them. But at first light they turned up, running over to me for food. Don't want to over-worry you but I would make sure you are out there before first light as a friend had a fox that patiently waited below the tree where they roosted and grabbed the first that came down.
 
going to be up at the crack of dawn!... the dog keeps jumping around the back garden, but he cant seem to take me to her.. Hes a springer with a cracking nose,.. hes vocal and he can hear anything that enters the garden and always barks.. day or night (bet the neighbours love him!) so will listen out tonight!
Thanks everyone...
 
Hi cazmubaz, just wondering if things worked out ok with your new girl...hope you found her ok...been thinking about it and how mad worried I'd be if it had happened to one of mine.
 
Well woke up early this morning to find hubby had already been up earlier than me! and there she was, sat on a little wall, Hubby looked around the coop and run and nowhere for them to escape so can only think she snook past me!...
She is back with the other girlys. So Happy :)
Thanks for all the advice and reassurance.
 
It's so worrying when that happens. One of mine disapeared one night. No sign of her anywhere, after a bad nights sleep OH went out at first light and still couldn't find her, he even got on hid bike and cycled round the local lanes looking in hedgrows. When he got back there she was waiting outside the run without a care in the world. And the experience certainly didn't upset her cos she laid her first egg a couple of days later.
 
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