Chicken Run cut short as Swindon pub finds owner of lost bird

On a sunny Sunday, staff at the Sun Inn pub near Coate Water were shocked when an unusually feathered customer paid them a surprise visit, bringing an altogether different type of hen party to the one they might be used to. 

Bewildered at the arrival of the runaway bird and trying to find out where it had come from, the pub posted a picture of it onto its social media and asked 'anybody lost a chicken'.

Thankfully it wasn't long until the impromptu chicken run was cut short, as the owners of the adventurous avian were soon found. 

The chicken was called Maxima and had taken a quick trip down the road from the nearby Richard Jefferies Museum. 

Her owner, Suzie Simmons made her own post on the Swindon Community Notice Board Facebook page, thanking the boozer for its hospitality. 

"Many thanks to the barman at the Sun Inn, Coate, for looking after our chicken, Maxima, from the Richard Jefferies Museum, after she popped out for a pint today," she said.

"She's home safe and sound now."