Nightcliff chook Gladys goes on two-day egg-laying spree in mysterious disappearance

At nearly the same time the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian stepped down, another Gladys (from Nightcliff) disappeared to go on an egg-laying rampage. READ THE EGGS-CLUSIVE.

FEATHERS have been ruffled on a Nightcliff street after a chook named Gladys Knight disappeared for 48 hours to go on an egg-laying spree.

The incident came around the same time that another Gladys, the NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian, took flight from her role.

Appearing for her first public engagement since the ordeal, Gladys (the chook) showed up in a delightful pink scarf in tribute to the fallen southern leader … but refused to answer questions.

What came first: the resignation or the disappearance? It’s a bit of a chicken and egg scenario.

Nevertheless, owner Lisa Barber went into a mad scramble trying to locate the purebred satin silkie, who presumably was in mourning about the fate of a fellow Gladys.

Lisa Barber with Gladys (Night) a satin silkie who is a unique type of chook, who went missing and then was found 2 days later with 8 eggs Picture Julianne Osborne

She wasn’t treating the situation as a yolk, even taking to the local Facebook brood to squawk for help finding her plucky clucky.

Thankfully, Lisa located the adventurous feather duster in her own backyard two days later.

“That was the first time that happened,” Ms Barber told the NT News.

And it appeared Gladys had kept herself busy.

“I found her sitting on eight eggs in a crate out the back.”

Lisa Barber with Gladys, who caused a flap by disappearing. Picture Julianne Osborne

The eggs, which were not fertilised, somehow ended up in the dogs’ dinner bowls. It’s not the first time birds have made a flap in the Territory … and in the NT News.

A few years back the paper reported that Chook the Hen, who was a resident of Fannie Bay, was dubbed Caitlyn Hen-ner after seemingly changing gender and becoming a rooster.

That same year, aliens were blamed for the “ab-duck-tion” of ducks in Humpty Doo.

The case sparked public interest in UFOs and was rated a four-out-of-five on the Gerrymeter.

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