Escape!

Last Saturday we took the bantams out of the brooder and put them in their own coop. Yesterday morning, I got up at 7:30 a.m. and happened to look out the back window at the chickens. I saw this guy pacing back and forth - on the outside of the coop door! He was trying to get back in!

We didn't find a place from which he could have escaped, so we can only surmise that he slipped beneath the feet of one of the kids when they were going in and out of the coop yesterday. That means he had been out all night! These bantams are tiny, and we are going to have to get used to watching to make sure they don't slip out.

Sorry if these photos are a bit blurry. These guys are fast and don't like to be held!

We were very lucky. We get stray cats going through the yard all the time, and it would have been nothing for one of them to snatch up a meal.

We think the escape artist is a Black Rosecomb. Here is some video of the bantams the day we put them in the coop.