i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

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BDutch said:
The decision us up to you. Do what feels most comfortable.
Maybe I can add an anecdote to make you feel comfortable to lock them up for a few hours.

Couple of years ago we had a lot of snow and it froze for over a week. The chickens could go outside in the run or free range but didn’t. My 6 hens stayed in the coop/tiny run voluntarily. Only 3m2 for 6 bantams.

Giving something to eat like pieces of grass (grind stones on the side) and scattered mixed grains is a good thing. I dump/scatter these in the big run when Im away almost the whole day.
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whenever i put them in the little run. or even the polytunnel, where i will put them if i can’t keep an eye so much but i am at home, and i put them in the polytunnel in the evening so they can dust bathe or jump on things or scratch around in the sand/straw/weeds, they will complain a few minutes and then go into the coop. today, for instance… i did put the pile of weeds in and scattered some seeds and a few mealworms so they can look for them, but they just go right in the coop in the nesting boxes and they don’t come out.
i believe today, when louise was done complaining so much, she went right back in and they did not go in the run the whole time i was gone.

do you think that is strange?
 
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