I have 8 hens of various breeds. When we returned from a week-long camping trip, I noted only 7 hens in the coop that night and thought I had lost one to a predator. The next morning, there she was in the chicken yard. For the next 2 nights, she was again missing from the coop after the door closed. I wandered around the chicken yard with a flashlight, but couldn't find her. I figured she was broody and setting on a stash of eggs somewhere. She is my largest hen and unable to fly over the fence. Tonight she was again missing from the closed coop but this time I was able to find her (she's white) snoozing at the foot of a vervain plant with no eggs under her. Much to her loud dismay, I picked her up and put her in the coop. After a few minutes I checked back and she was kind of huddled on the floor, not sharing the roost with anyone. Is she being shunned?
