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My only squatter who is the ONLY one who is laying eggs(started at 25 weeks) is also a loner. She tends to go off on her own or when I am in the yard she follows me everywhere and she chats up a storm.
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Unfortunately squatting, or more accurately NOT squatting, isn't an indicator either.
Of my original three BA pullets, I only had one who squatted before she started laying. The other two just started laying eggs without ever squatting. When the "squatter" died one of the others suddenly started squatting for me. The third BA has never squatted at all. They are now a year old, and have been laying since around 27 - 29 weeks (about a month after their wattles and combs grew huge and red).
The one in my avatar is the one who has never squatted. When this photo was taken, she was still a few weeks away from laying her first egg.
Not in my experience.I have heard that if you don't have a rooster one of the hens will "act" as the rooster. Is this the hen doesn't squatt?