My fat bottom girls...

[OccamsTazer]

Is there a word to describe the "drop down" of a chicken's bottom that occurs at the onset of egglaying? I'm a geek for terminology and this one is bugging me. I've actually caught myself saying, "No, I don't think she's started laying yet, she doesn't have the fatbottom". Know what I mean? Chooks that haven't started laying, even if they're full size, have a slender rear view, with feathers that lie down. Girls that are laying eggs, have..well...fatbottoms! A round, saggy thing, with feathers that are poofy.
Someone tell me I'm not a nut, please.

 

[goldeneggtees]

not sure, we just call them fuzzy butts!

 

[Harrietsmum]

Fluffybumitis? Post pullet push syndrome?

 

[Country Heart]

I use the term "fluffybutt"

 

[OccamsTazer]

Maybe the only word for it is puberty? Birdberty?

I love catching the SO humming that "fat bottom girls" song while he's feeding them. He'll deny to the death that he does this.