squatting

[mfranti]

i read on another thread the term "squatting"

will someone explain to me what this means?

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Humm I will tell you what I believe squatting is. A chicken squats when it's showing affection and also I have heard that it will also start squatting when its ready to lay eggs. I'm not sure how true this is but that's what they say about squatting

 

[mfranti]

well, if i hadn't been so impatient, i could have just done a search-like i did after i published this question.

well, my Barred rock has been doing it for while so maybe she WAS the one giving me eggs. it's been a month since i've seen one.

i guess i will check on the RIR and see if she's squatting too.

 

[richnchicks]

here's a pic of our little Fork squatting for me.

 

[Hen Daddy]

To me squatting is kinda wierd. She sits on the ground, puts her wings out and sticks her butt in the air. Yeah....wierd.

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

mine are ALL doing that now...some more often then others and I think it's cuz they are laying or are going to lay...mine started squatting and then all a sudden we have a dozen eggs a day. My girls are 21 weeks old, I think 90% of them are laying, not every day but close.

~Tiff~

 

[Hen Daddy]

Ya we did get our first egg today, just after Penny squatted for dh. Such a pretty thing, the first egg! I can't wait for more!!!! Maybe the other girls will get the hint and start laying too?


~Caran

 

[utahmethodist]

Squatting is a mating behavior, isn't it? I see sparrows doing it right before they mate. I assumed when my pullets started doing it I had graduated from "mom" status to "rooster" status.

My kids got a kick out of that. One more benefit to raising chickens. Sex ed.

 

[Hen Daddy]

Quote:
I believe it is. I think it is a graduation to roo status.

 

[mfranti]

ok. so last night i noticed both of my older gals would squat when i came up to them but the younger, skittish leghorns do not. (i do not like those birds)

thanks for the pic (forgot your name) i thought it was wierd that she would "submit" to me. glad to know i didn't scare her into it.