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.
I'm more worried about the roos wanting to mate with the hens all year (vs. broody times of year). I think I have more roos than I anticipated and am thinking I might have to separate some to a different pen. But...I didn't know if the roo:hen ratio only mattered during mating season (I keep reading everyone's horror stories about what happens to the females when there are too many roosters).