Silver in the squat position

Silver drops into a squat whenever I come up behind her and especially if I lightly touch her back. It’s been difficult to show in a photograph though because she is very low to the ground anyway, but you can see by the shape of her wings that she is squatting.

I have also seen Ginger go to the grit. Neither girl is showing an interest in the nest boxes as yet but I feel sure these two will start laying quite early.