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.
The rooster does not sit on the eggs. He needs to be taken out before the eggs hatch, he can kill the chicks. Chicken eggs take 21 days to hatch, it doesnt matter if its under the hen or in a incubator. A hen will sit on her eggs most of the day, only getting up to eat and drink.