T his article covers things you never wanted to know about rooster reproductive anatomy and chicken mating, including up-close and personal photos. Soon you will be well equipped to impress friends and business associates at cocktail parties with an alarming amount of information about chicken copulation. The rooster fans his wings flamboyantly while dancing around her in the same way a matador fans his cape to attract the bull. The Two-step In conjunction with the wing drag, a rooster will often dance in a circle, trying to position himself behind her to assume the mating position. Tidbitting Picking up actual or pretend morsels of food while calling the hen over to investigate is the oldest trick in the book. With apologies to Hasbro and my daughters whose Play Doh I pirated for this illustration, I present you with a rudimentary model of the rooster reproductive system. Parts are not to scale.

Long before the advent of the internet, it was a surreptitious way us teenagers could get the low down without asking our parents. Every once in a while I scan my blog stats to track the number of visitors and views, what countries people come from and what posts they read. To my surprise, various terms related to chicken sex were pretty high on the list. Farmers have known that little nugget for ages, but scientists have recently discovered how bird penises disappeared. It triggers the cells in the rudimentary penis to die faster than they grow back, eventually leaving only a slight bulge.

I could not keep from laughing Our rooster, Humble[he is not humble but he was Go back to the urban jungle city slickers lol. I will bookmark this. We have 4 week old chicks, and don't yet know which will be roos or hens.