Newbie question.

[2DogsCoop]

I have to show one picture of our first two egg day

My question is a couple of my chickens do what we are calling the chicken stomp. When I walk into the run two of my girls will squat down, wings slightly open and then quick stomps on the ground. I think it is rather cool. What are they doing?

 

[sheila3935]

Its called egg squating. They are either laying or getting ready to. It is also they are showing that you are dominate like they do a rooster.

 

[Katydid2011]

Sometimes when they squat like that they're simply bracing and flattening themselves to the ground because they feel threatened from above, as when a human walks in or a hawk flies overhead and there's no immediate hiding place to be found.

Congrats on your two egg day!

 

[Ruth Ann]

They are doing the "squat"...all is fine.