The squat..How long before eggs?

[Hen Daddy]

Our GLW has just started squatting for me when I go in the run. Is started earlier this week. About how long on average is the timeframe before she lays? We are hoping soon because all our hens are on an egg-hiatus.

 

[warren]

A week or two perhaps. Watch out for huge poops. They are a good indicator that the hen is eating enough to make an egg.

 

[Redfeathers]

I have had one that squatted four weeks before the first egg, the rest about two weeks.

 

[Hen Daddy]

Update!!!

Well she squatted for about 3 days and this afternoon laid an egg! Her first and the only one we have had in about a month!!

Awesome!!

 

[Jolyn]

HUGE POOPS INDICATE THEY ARE GETTING READY TO LAY????? Yahoooooooooooo.....I just said this morning....man the girls poops are getting BIG!!!!!

I'm so excited.

 

[HpyNDxie]

So, based on what I'm reading here, if the hens squat and are having large stools, that means they are getting ready to lay???

Mine squat when I pet them...I thought they were just afraid. Also there is a white coating on their stools. Is that normal?

 

[ticks]

Mine started squatting a day before the egg.

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

mine are all squating and 90% are laying, and all are pooping huge poo with white on the tail end of it....those are great signs of eggs on the way, and my first one to squat layed like 2 days after I saw her squat the first time.

 

[Matt A NC]

The white on chicken poo is urate, produced by their kidneys. The equivalent to urine.

Matt

 

[joebryant]

Squatting, large poo, means eggs are coming soon. I learn something new every day. That covers today.

EDIT: BTW, when you say "squat", does that mean that they squat when they poop?