My husband and I went out to collect the eggs together and found two hens in the community nest box and the black hen (either BPR or Cuckoo Maran???) was actually making a low growling sound we've never heard so we started watching her carefully and sure enough, she laid her first egg with her...
We've raised 3 day old chicks to the point where they're starting to lay with LOTS of help from a local organic farmer and this forum! We started with 8 chicks from Tractor Supply that are supposedly from "a hatchery in Arizona" that were in the "mixed dual purpose" bin, and 12 from our friend...