I have my neighbors silkie setting on eggs in my barn. She was setting on 8 eggs in an area totally enclosed in 1" chicken wire with my 3 14 week banties. She started setting on 2 of the eggs then other hens added 6 more before she was moved to this secure location. We are at the point that the first 2 should be hatching any time. So tonight I went to check for any signs and 2 eggs were gone. I did find a few small pieces of shell and that's it. No chicks no sign of there ever being any. Could / would the hen have destroyed the 2 eggs ? Could / would the banties have destroyed the eggs. There is no sign of any remains. The only 3 people who go into our barn are wife, neighbor and I, none of us had anything to do with this and NOBODY else has been in there I am positive. Tonight we put the hen with eggs in a metal 100gal tub with 1" chicken wire over it. We thought this would do 2 things. Remove the chance that it was the banties and the very remote chance of an outside predator. I am so puzzled by this and have checked all possibilities.
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