January 30th, 2025 –February 2nd is Winter – DAIKAN (Greater cold)-72nd KOU “Hens start laying eggs.” The literal meaning of the72nd KOU is that hens will start to stay in often explained that they crow only in the morning and only males (roosters) to claim their territory.
Here they are crowing even during the day. They crow in a specific order and at each different position. It seems that they have a territorial sense even in a chicken farm.
However, the idea that they only crow in the morning or they feel the arrival of spring may be no longer correct in today’s world.
Even though, I am impressed by the author’s sensitivity in sensing the arrival of spring through eggs, a symbol of new life, at the end of the cycle of SHICHIJYUUNI-KOU (the end of a year in the lunar calendar).