Mildred is apparently no longer stressed by her injuries. I found an egg in the nest box this morning while opening up the chicken coop. It was apparently produced yesterday because when I took off my glove to feel the temperature it was stone cold and cracked along its length from freezing. It was missed because I'm fighting a virus, so my daughter offered to shut the chickens up last night, and I had told her that Mildred wasn't laying. But considering the temperatures we've had here, it probably still would have been frozen by the time she was at the coop yesterday afternoon.

So Mildred took a week off and is now laying again. And backstory writing and Ross research continues.