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.
A rooster will protect your flock by sounding the alarm whenever a predator approaches your chicken coop. Roosters also enable your chickens to produce fertile eggs and, ultimately, live chicks. If the reason you want a rooster is to produce chicks, it will be useful for you to have a complete understanding of the mating and breeding process.