Update on Mickey = not good. She is probably pretty upset! Yesterday I went out to gather eggs and she was sitting in a different box, on different eggs. I felt her eggs, (I knew which were hers because I marked them LOL) hoping to shove them back under her but they were cold. It looks as though another hen or two layed eggs in her nest when she got up and those eggs somehow broke and were eaten up. (If eggs get cracks in them or leak the chickens devour them like cannibals.) Poor Mickey had tried to sit back on her eggs with the broken ones and was covered in egg yolk and so were her eggs. I had to take them from her and get rid of them. She is still trying to sit on eggs so I keep putting her outside since she doesn't understand. Hopefully she gives up soon and will try again next year. These things happen! I'm just glad the eggs with chicks in them didn't break since I'd have to see that.......I never want to see that!
Awwww, so sad.:(