Missing egg contents / clean egg shell

[Andie32]

She wouldn’t have eaten the chick....would she??

 

[Crestcrazy2]

I don't know , maybe

 

[Andie32]

Hmm. It’s only day 15. Who knows what happened. I guess we’ll just keep watching and waiting.

 

[aart]

One has 7 eggs and the other has 15.

Did you mark the eggs when they started setting and check for any new additions daily?

She wouldn’t have eaten the chick....would she??

Possible.

Did the inside of shell have any tint of blood?

 

[Andie32]

Did you mark the eggs when they started setting and check for any new additions daily?

Possible.

Did the inside of shell have any tint of blood?

We only let them lay for 2 days in the box before we closed it up. Nobody can get in our out during laying hours to add anymore. The shell had absolutely NOTHING in it. It was totally white inside.

 

[Andie32]

Found this in nest today. What is going on here? Only the two of them. Still the same number of eggs. Two clearly different egg colors here, one within the other. Clean eggshell. Missing it’s other half.

 

[AltonaAcres]

I heard raccoons eat eggs in that fashion. Hard to believe a hen would let one eat her eggs though..........

 

[Andie32]

I heard raccoons eat eggs in that fashion. Hard to believe a hen would let one eat her eggs though..........

There’s no way a raccoon got in my nest box. These doors stay shut 23 hours out of the day and there is fencing stapled to the middle so no other hens can get in to lay more eggs.

 

[Crestcrazy2]

Very very very very STRANGE

 

[aart]

Found this in nest today. What is going on here? Only the two of them. Still the same number of eggs. Two clearly different egg colors here, one within the other. Clean eggshell. Missing it’s other half.

Is the whole egg one of the broody's eggs?

There’s no way a raccoon got in my nest box. These doors stay shut 23 hours out of the day and there is fencing stapled to the middle so no other hens can get in to lay more eggs.

So the 'nest box' is separated by wire to keep the other layers away from the two brood's?
Any chance of a pic of the inside?

Might be a small pred...rodent, squirrel, etc.