Who is Laying.....and Who is Not? Butt Check!

This was great information. I will actually start using this today. My girls are 11 weeks old and this will be a great method for knowing.
Thanks

Very informative article Aart!

Well illustrated article about how to tell if a hen is laying eggs

Article a great help and reassurance thanks ! Have a gorgeous Cream LegBar (called Lexy) who's one minute showing she's about to, then next she stops any interest ! Comb has been very very slowly growing and getting redder, then paler but she's now eating loads, become tamer, and does the famous wings out squat when we reach for a stroke - we can't wait for our first blue egg ( no matter how small - bless her !) but she's being very frustrating lol !!

Very informative! I now have some hope of figuring out who is not laying in my flock. I have 19 hens and I get 12 to 15 eggs a day. @aart you are very helpful!

Good description of their behaviour a week or so before they start laying.
My Dutch bantams allways come to get a back-cuddle if they are laying and there is no rooster in the flock. The Millefleur de Tournaise do not (flightly character)

Meanwhile, eggs everywhere, some of them can be rather funky looking, soft or thin shelled, huge double yolked eggs.

Yes, and fairy eggs too.

Love the presentation, the information, the diagrams, the attached video, and the time it took to make this information readily available. Although this is not my first rodeo, I found out much about checking for physical signs of maturity. Newer knew there would be a way to check.

This is what I got taught to do here in Spain. It's considered more reliable then comb colour etc once you've had a bit of practice.
Very easy to when the chicken is roosting at night I've found.

easy to understand and helpful - thanks!

Thank you so much for this! Have been waiting for what seems like forever on eggs, but now I know how to check if we're getting any closer to time! Illustrations and video were very helpful!!

Good article, I like that it gives explanations in multiple ways - the skeletal diagram, the cartoon drawing, the linked video. Does a good job of explaining it well enough that I feel like I, as a newbie chicken tender, could use this.

I loved this article; read it all the way through and even watched the video. I plan on going outside right now and checking my 4 hens who are almost 21 weeks and only one is laying and egg. All but 1 I've seen doing the submissive squat, however, they have been doing that for about a week now.
Awesome information!!!

My silkies are about 7 months, excited for the eggs to come

Great information! diagram and video very helpful! :thumbsup

thank you thank you

It didn't have the information I was searching for, but it was probably even more helpful than what I might have found. A wonderful surprise.