Last night when we got home from youth night I went to close the coop. Missing were the turkey and 4 chicks. I notified Steve, we got flashlights and went looking. Steve found the turkey behind the shop hunkered down and sleeping, so he moved him into the coop. We searched and searched but couldn't find the 4 chicks (a Wyandotte, New Hampshire Red, female bantam; black and white, and Silkie). Steve got in the Rover and started driving over the pasture. He found the Wyandotte hunkered down and tried to get it to go to the coop, but I ended up carry her in (chickens asleep in the dark don't rouse easily). He next found the Silkie which I then carried to the coop. I got in the Rover with him as we searched for the last two chicks. It was much like the nature shows where they are tracting lions at night. We never spotted the last two so we gave up. The only thing we could figure was that a rain storm must have caught the chicks in the open and these ones didn't run for the coop but squatted instead and then fell asleep.
This morning when Steve was leaving for work the remaining two chicks were under the Rover just waiting for the others to show up. So all are safe and somewhat sound.
I have ordered 15 more chicks which are due to arrive the week of the 22nd. Supposedly they will all be female.
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