Is that a chicken Chook bitten by travel bug hitchhikes 300km in caravan

A stowaway chicken has made a 320-kilometre journey in West Australia's north hidden in a caravan, much to the surprise of the unsuspecting Perth couple who discovered it.

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The chicken travelled more than 300km in the hatch of a caravan and laid an egg among camping gear

Staff at the Sandfire Roadhouse say it's not the first time the chicken has gone on an adventure

The bird also had to be brought back 50km to the roadhouse after hitching a ride with unsuspecting travellers three weeks ago

Cheryl Harman opened the hatch of her caravan after a three-and-a-half-hour journey from Sandfire Roadhouse to Broome to find a chicken and a freshly laid egg inside a storage cupboard in their caravan.

"I could hear this squeaking noise and I thought, "Okay what's that?'" she said.

"I saw these eyes looking at me so I realised then it was the chicken so I freaked out and jumped back and said, 'There's a chicken, there's a chicken in the tunnel boot.'"

Cheryl Harman said the chicken even laid an egg while in the caravan.(

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She said the chicken jumped out of the caravan when she reached her destination and started pecking away happily. 

"It's very very tame," Mrs Harman said.

"It actually laid an egg in our tunnel boot.

"[It left] just a lot of poo and an egg."

Find more local news'We've renamed it Hitchhiker'

The chicken lives at the Sandfire Roadhouse, a popular stop-off point for people travelling from Karratha to Broome.

Roadhouse office manager Dorothy Taylor said it wasn't the first time the chicken had snuck into a vehicle.

Staff at the remote Sandfire roadhouse say it's not the first time the chicken has travelled off site in a caravan.(

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She said the chicken hitchhiked its way to Eighty Mile beach three weeks ago and had to be brought back 50km to the roadhouse.

"It has started to get into a few cars and caravans," Ms Taylor said.

"We have re-named it; it's not Salt and Pepper. We've renamed it Hitchhiker.

"I think it's got a taste of the travelling."

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