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.
1 If you order a batch of chicks that are sex-linked, a specific color of chick correlates with a certain sex. 2  It's the only way to be absolutely positive of the sex of your chick. 3  Roosters can also be distinguished by larger, flashier tail feathers and the classic cock-a-doodle doo noise.