WOOHOO on your BCM. Can't wait to hear when she lays her first egg and see the pic of it! None of my girls squat for me but read that if you have a roo sometimes they don't. even Nugget and Hummer don't squat for me and they are laying. so I can't use that trick. LOLI'm excited for Annabelle, and I've never met her! Lol! Checking the pelvic bones can be a little tricky at first, but once you find their location it's way easier to find again easily. My BCM surprise-squatted for me today (I thought she'd be another 2+ months before laying...) but I scooped her up and checked... and she has 2 finger separation! These girls really do whatever they want I guess
My mom named Annabelle (after a chicken her dad had that was his favorite since she was so sweet, but his was a buff Brahma which Annabelle was going to be since I ordered 2 buff brahma but then those didn't come in so I had to pick 2 other ones so got Annabelle who is a buff cochin, and Rosie, that my grand daughter named who is a light Brahma) and my Annabelle sure lives up to the sweet nature of her name sake. She is REALLY hard to check for pelvic bones since she is a cochin and EXTREMELY fluffy back there! hard to find much of anything in all that fluff! LOL