Awww, it breaks my heart when that happens. I call this hen my old witch. If she doesn’t get some chicks in the spring she is just cranky the rest of the yr, but she’s a habitual egg abandoner. She hatched 10 chicks 2 yrs ago, I couldn’t believe it!
I have a broody hen like that. She makes me so mad, she finally hatched 4 eggs, 1 died and I moved 2 more eggs to the incubator and both hatched so she had her 5 babies now and 7 others that are bigger but she’s in with all my hatched chicks. I sold 7 the other day and she seems a little calmer...