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They're busy little porkers, aren't they? 😂 🥰 Look at those bulging crops!

Granted I only have one WTB in my varied flock of 8, but "Martha" was the most flighty pullet I had - until the hormones kicked in and she started laying. From that time onward, she squats for me and seems to enjoy being picked up and petted, and follows me around the chicken yard, hopping up to...

They are definitely happier with some stimulation, enough novelty to get them interested but not so much that it freaks them out! A new straw bale to hop on and scratch in, a few big clumps of weeds with root balls attached -- they're good for awhile! Plus lots of different perches at different...

Yes, my Eggers did that, too -- being ~7-8 weeks younger than the other girls, they'd go in the coop and stare at whoever was hunkered down in a nest box like, "This is important for some reason but I don't know why?" or "HOW does she DO that?!?" Two of the laying pullets got visibly annoyed...

Hormones galore! She's not only squatting for and hanging around with me, she started mounting the two younger Easter Eggers and "playing rooster", holding onto their head feathers with her beak and really going for it. And yesterday, I saw her mount the Black Australorp (who's 2 rungs up the...

Okay! So, Martha laid her first pale blue pullet egg yesterday, and another one today, so she's up and rolling! Probably just in time for everyone to slow down with the shorter, dimmer autumn days ahead, but she did it! She started squatting for me (sometimes) yesterday and hangs around me a...

Not to worry, even if Martha never lays, she'll have a home with us. My 8 girls are really "pets with benefits" and already my husband and I are overwhelmed with eggs! Nobody who visits (or when we visit them) gets away without taking at least a dozen fresh eggs. [So far,no complaints, unlike...

Thank you so much for this observation! My WTB hasn't laid yet while the other same-age pullets in my small flock have been laying since August/early September. Even one of the 2 much-younger Easter Eggers has been laying light green eggs for over a week. (Her EE "sister" hasn't yet; I raised...