Your right, squatting indicates that the hen is submissive and willing to be mounted. They only do this when they are mature enouph to lay or getting ready to lay. Some chickens don't squat because they have no interest in it. Just like some will never go broody.
In my case my two darling hens that are the lowest in rank in the main flock were awful. They saw the oportunity to make someone lower ranking then them and picked on the newbies. They were so sweet I never thought in my wildest dreams they could ever be so mean but they were. You just have to...
Have some one sit with your dog and you hold one of the chicks/hens, and tell them No repeativly. Let them smell the chick too. Do this a few times and if their reaction is
good let the chick down to run around a little while holding the dog on a leash. Keep telling him no or easy, what ever...
We hatched out 3 eggs as a school project. One egg did not hatch and the other 2 came out with the curled toes/feet. I read where the temp was too low, high enouph to form the chick but not high enouph to finish the job.
I checked out the temp and it indeed was too low. Someone told me to buy...
time of year and horrible weather don't help, where did you get the hen from. I have 2 easter eggers over a year old now that have never laid. I hatched them myself. I got them from a lady who breeds and lets all the roosters and hen run around with each other. I think mine are inbred. I don't...