Ours were noisy, but no squatting. I was surprised to find that first egg yesterday (19 weeks 4 days), I thought one of the other hens (golden cuckoo) was a little more developed, but the comb on the blue splash hen in question developed very quickly over the last two weeks. Two others (black...
We started a lottery at home for the first egg. Our Marans are 18 weeks now (we have 2 Blue Splash, 2 Black Copper, 1 Golden Cuckoo, & 1 Silver Cuckoo). So far the money seems to be on the golden...but no one chose anything closer than several weeks out.