Rural Gardening: The mysterious disappearance of Taylor, 1 by smedgekles

smedgekles wrote:
One set of our chickens were out free ranging in the yard the other day and some got out beyond the fence. My son got the ones he saw back in. That night and the next morning we had a lot of rain, later in the afternoon when the rain stopped my son went out and came back and said one of the hens was gone. He thought she was there the night before, he said he counted them but could have counted one twice (we have 2 Australorps). We do have hawks and when they get beyond the fence they are in the open where hawks tend to get them. We lost a Buff O a couple of months back, we found feathers. This time however we can't find any trace of her. No feathers, nothing. Do you think it was a hawk or could something else have gotten her and wouldn't there at least be some feathers somewhere? She was one of my sons favorite, very tame so he is very upset.