Laying eggs w/o squatting?

[JennsPeeps]

How many of you found eggs and saw no squatting behavior?

<--- waaay impatient

 

[gotchooks?]

I have an EE who doesn't like me within 5 feet of her. She started laying @ 29 weeks 2 days...no squatting. Everyone else does and did squat.

I think squatting may mean a combination of things; submission, readiness to breed, and an invitation to a rooster...Regardless of what it means, my hens start laying soon after they start squatting.

Good luck!

 

[MissPrissy]

Squatting does not mean anything much in relation to laying eggs.

Squatting is an act of submission and a hen squatts to be mated - not to lay an egg.

Mating has nothing to with egg laying either beyond being fertile. Mating is not an indication of a hen soon to lay either.

 

[TMNTCkins]

I have five hens that were given to us and they were not used to being handled they lay great but there is no squatting but we also can't touch them.

 

[chickenchickenbulkbulk]

I had a hen... lay an egg while she was running out of the coop door. I have never seen that before.

I also have a white leghorn..every time I walk up on her from behind she'll squat down like she would for a rooster to mount her. I find her funny!!

 

[Elly]

I have five hens, four of them are laying now...the only one that squatted was a red sex link. She is so friendly though and comes running up to you all the time. The others never squatted, but aren't as friendly where I can walk up to them.

 

[ChickenToes]

I only had one hen that would squat. The others never squatted, and they began to lay about 2 weeks before the hen that would squat.

 

[JennsPeeps]

Thanks for the clarification, MP. So many ppl talk about squatting -> egg that it sounded like it's a obligatory rite of passage.

 

[roosmom]

None of mine squatted.....NONE. Then the other day, I noticed Miley do it at my feet. she is the babied one LOL.