One of my chickens decided to make her nest on the floor of the coop. She had a big pile of them and then went Broody. I'm gone most of the week and my wife takes care of the chickens while I'm gone. After the hen had gone broody a couple of weeks my wife said something stinks in the coop. I looked and saw a broken egg by the broody hen. So one got busted. Didn't think much of it. Later the broody hen had got up to walk around a little and I noticed there where three broken eggs and no sign of the rest of them. I cleaned up the mess and put 15 fresh egg back in her nest from other nest. She continued to set on them. The next weekend I came home and checked. Five where missing. My run is completely enclosed with The first two feet up has 1/2 inch cloth and one foot turned out. Then one inch chicken wire. And Two inch wire for the roof. What would steal a whole egg like that out from under the hen. About one a day. Would that be a snake? None of the eggs in the nesting boxes have disappeared. The boxes are about two feet off the floor.
