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

Thank you for writing this up and providing diagrams! I have 2 Barred Rock pullets I can barely tell apart, but only one barred rock egg has been getting laid. I can never seem to catch the one who is laying, so this is very helpful. I'll check them this evening to see which one it is!

Learned a lot by reading this short article. The illustrations were a plus.

Excellent info. I'm bookmarking this for the next time someone says they don't know who is or isn't laying. Me personally, I have silkies so don't care who isn't laying, just grateful for who is!

Very good article on how to tell if a hen is laying! I enjoyed reading it!
Great information!
Good Job!!

This is an excellent article, clearly written and laid out.

Thank you
Everything explained very well makes it easy to follow the directions and understand what you’re looking for or not looking for . Very much appreciated.

Excellent article! For years I've checked the pelvic points on my hen to determine if they were laying or how close to laying they were. There was some other methods of telling in this article that I found quite interesting. This article was an overall good read and informational.

Eggcellent article. Informative, with diagrams and puns

Thank you. My pullets should be due for laying in a short while, so this was very helpful.

This is an excellent and well-illustrated article. Thank you so much

This was an informative article with great illustrations, specially for the first time chicken owner. Thank you and keep articles like this coming!

Easy to read and understand. Since my pullets are now within the laying age range, I check this article out (and their butts) frequently!

Nicely illustrated with great laymen (haha) style write up. Great for a newbie chicken chick like me.
I would like to know from where the skeletal illustration can be found. I am curious to know the other structure labels.

Excellent with clear illustrations to help us understand. thank you! Very helpful. Bookmarked.

Thank you! The illustrations are very helpful.

Now I just need you to come do it for me! lol.

Very informative accurate and easy to understand, thank you from Bda.

Very helpful! When you have several pullets the same age it’s hard to tell who’s doing what. This is one reason I have a flock of mixed breeds laying various colored eggs. That limits the variables!

This helped a LOT! My young Orpingtons are all laying. One of them lays a LOT of double-yolked eggs, maybe 2 a week, but it's slowing down a bit. I even had one triple-yolk!! There's still the odd shell-less egg, so I've upped the amount of toasted eggshell available. They don't seem to like powdered calcium supplements & no oyster shell is available here.

Thank you for this! Very helpful.