They huddled in the coop for most the morning because they didn't like the pissing rain. When we finally got a chance to count them again in the middle of the afternoon there were only four!!??
Doug went on a walk around to try to locate the missing one or any evidence of it's fate - but couldn't find anything. Did it escape and wander off? Or did something eat it? There are a lot of big birds that fly overhead although we haven't seen any today (presumably they are huddled at home too due to heavy cloud cover interfering with air traffic control). Also we felt if this had happened (or the dreaded fox) we would have heard a fuss from the other chickens, as we have been around all day (we are cowering in our house because of the pissing rain too...)
Maybe it will return for bedtime. Or maybe it is just gone. Perhaps a snake ate it?
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