I got up to let the girls out this morning and left the door to on the run open a bit while I futzed w/ the timer for the brooder lamp. I didn’t think the girls would be bold enough to make a break for it. I was wong. Fajita, our boldest hen, took advantage of my stupidity. I have to say I was a little paniced since it was 7am on a Sunday and I was in my jammies. I didn’t want to yell for the Boy to come help me, don’t want to wake the neighborhood, and I didn’t feel like chasing a rogue hen all over the neighborhood in my jammies either. What to do? How do you catch a chicken by yourself? Apparently you chase the hen around the perimeter of the coop several times before luring her in to the run with a great deal of scratch.
Lesson Learned
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