As I mentioned in yesterdayâs post about the house where Joan Crawford (aka Faye Dunaway) lived in Mommie Dearest, I have become just a wee-bit obsessed with the 1981 film as well as the 1978 autobiography of Joanâs daughter, Christina Crawford, on which it was based.
The rooster's sexual organ is called a papilla, a small bump inside his cloaca from which semen exits. To mate, a rooster climbs onto the back of a hen, standing on the hen's back and using his wings maintain balance, and forcefully touches his cloaca to hers in what's known as a cloacal kiss.
Well, Perplexed, here's how it works: After a chicken mates with a rooster, the sperm cells that he deposits in her reproductive tract can live for more than a week. Egg cells develop in the chicken's ovary, which is where most of the proteins and lipids that make up the yolk are added to the egg.