We have a pretty good flock of hens,geese and ducks that all live in the same barn like house that we built and there is plenty of room for all the animals to live comfortably together. I have 5 hens and they all started laying about a month ago. What I was wanting to find out is about just 1 of my hens. She is the same age as the other hens but she will go missing a day or 2 recently and then she showed back up for about a hour to eat and then she was gone again. Is she maybe brooding somewhere else or what other reasons can there be for her to leave and then come back and then leave again? We thought at first that something might had got her because she was the only missing hen until she came home 1 morning when it was time to be feed and as soon as she ate she left again.
We have a pretty good flock of hens,geese and ducks that all live in the same barn like house that we built and there is plenty of room for all the animals to live comfortably together. I have 5 hens and they all started laying about a month ago. What I was wanting to find out is about just 1 of my hens. She is the same age as the other hens but she will go missing a day or 2 recently and then she showed back up for about a hour to eat and then she was gone again. Is she maybe brooding somewhere else or what other reasons can there be for her to leave and then come back and then leave again? We thought at first that something might had got her because she was the only missing hen until she came home 1 morning when it was time to be feed and as soon as she ate she left again.