Man Theron, Did you get the deal of the year! Glad to hear your new birdies made it to you safe and sound and that you got a surprize to boot
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Which boxes? I assume the box with the 2 black girls and mottled boy had one. If so, I'd bet anything it's from the bigger of the 2 black hens. She was in a pen with just her and the black male that big-b got, so you might want to hatch that one! The other egg was probably in the box with the laced girl and the 2 little boys? If so, you might want to junk it. It's probably not fertile, but if it is, she was free-ranging with a BCM and a NH rooster, so you might not want to hatch her eggs for a while!
If one of the eggs was hers, that would be her 3rd egg. She'd just started laying a few days ago
ETA: The 'white' pullet was broody, though she was sitting on a box of shavings and nothing else
The trip probably 'broke' her, but she might go back to broody pretty easily. You know, just in case you need another 'hatcher'
You are correct.
And the 'white' pullet is still making the clucking broody sounds to this very minute. Might just have to put a few eggs under her.