How do roosters mate

Usually, the pressure applied to the comb will stop the bleeding after several minutes. Using a small pad or tissue, pinch the damaged comb between your fingers firmly. Rooster attacks can happen during the mating process. This is rare but has been known to happen.

The dynamics of dual-flock farms can be challenging, especially during the Spring, when breeding is at an all-time high. With that being said, hens are pretty attached and loyal to their chosen rooster.

Hens rarely change roosters. As you can see, the trials and tribulations of barnyard mating are similar to the problems we all had as teenagers…. Generally, the whole process goes smoothly without any interference from a keeper, but now and then, an overly amorous rooster can damage hens quite badly. Some roosters will actually take a turn at sitting on the eggs while Mama takes a bath and snack.

But, of course, he will still guard and care for the rest of his girls. Do you have any rooster tales that you would like to share with us?

Let us know in the comments below. You know we love to hear from you. Though he does not sit on any eggs no broody girls in my gang , he does take care of his ladies nicely and even seems to understand me.

Lucky me!! Hi I have a hand reared silver Wyandotte rooster he is a friendly chap who has been hand reared along with to Golden Wyandotte hens I am hoping that he will be able to give me a nice little flock of hens this is my first hand reared rooster I was very surprised him being friendly as my little experience with my friends rooster was awful very aggressive so I thought that is what they are all like but that is not true.

Thank you so much for this article. I decided to give my only rooster away. I have 25 chickens and he favored only 3. Now one is dead because of it. I guess live and learn. It could work but generally it works the other way around. We acquired 3 different breeds of chicks in April that resulted in 3 roosters one of each breed for a total of 9 chickens.

My grandsons have fallen in love and named all of them. So far, Rainbow the DR rooster seems to be the dominant and most hold-able. The 2 lavender chicks kind of keep to themselves because they were acquired about weeks later and not initially kept with the others.

My concern is, will the breeds keep to themselves for breeding as they are all co-inhabiting and enjoy the company. Any help here? She may just be too young to get broody, or she may not be a Breed of chicken that gets broody. You will find these breeds get broody often and also lay a significant amount of eggs too!! Good luck! Yes, they do. If you want to keep his offspring consider getting another coop and another rooster.

This way you will avoid intercross breeding. I have a nice rooster. He lets me pick him up, and he seems to treat my hens well. My chickens have really runny poops. We feed them good food from a place called Scratch and Peck, and we give them no corn.

What can I do to stop this? I have heard not to give them anything but the feed. No scratch or snacks. If you do it keeps them from being able to get the nutrients from the nutritionally balanced feed. Next, the rooster will choose a hen. These roosters will take a hen by extreme force i. In this instance, the rooster does not care about showing the hen anything. He selects a hen, brutally pounces on her with his sharp talons, grabs her head, comb, and neck in his sharp beak, and has his way with the hen.

Many animals have a life cycle that begins with eggs, including humans. However, in the animal world, fertilization of eggs often occurs outside of the body, as is the case with fish or insects. This is not the case with most birds. To make fertilization occur, birds have cloacas. This is a set of organs that includes their bladders, their reproductive organs , and their anuses. Essentially, there is one entrance and exit hole through which birds and chickens urinate, defecate and reproduce.

In order for chickens to mate, their cloacas have to be in direct contact with each other. In short, they have to be anal opening to anal opening. No, chickens do not walk backward and mash their derrieres together, although that could work. Instead, after the rooster either does his strut and dance or his violent assault on a hen, he arches his back and shoves his anal opening and cloaca downward into close contact with the hens.

Roosters will mate with intense frequency to ensure that their lineage lives on. Roosters can, and will, mate multiple times an hour, sometimes with the same hen, and sometimes with any willing hen in the coop. Because only a small amount of sperm is transmitted at a time, and because most hens are only going to lay one egg at a time, this frequent mating is necessary to fertilize enough eggs to fill a nest. The success rate of a rooster depends on a couple of factors.

One, the age of the rooster is important. While a very old rooster can still mate, his ability to transmit sperm may be on the decline. Additionally, an older rooster may not be able to grab and hold on to a hen during mating long enough to do the job correctly.

Older roosters are also only able to manage mating with less than a dozen hens. Two, the behavior of a rooster may terrify your hens such that they will do anything to get away from a savage rooster, and thus, mating may fail.

Hilarious, educational My curiosity has been piqued and I am now researching who else among the female animal kingdom has to put up with this; but I am posting in advance of research results. In contrast, only a relatively small percentage of male humans are jerks although they are not difficult to find ; and the less-jerkly ones are perfectly capable of showing a lady a good time, and even remaining non-jerkly afterwards.

Human females with well-honed jerk-detectors and a reasonable amount of prudence have excellent chances of avoiding human male jerks; and should appreciate, let's say, being human. I love the way you gave your Roo a voice. Hilarious and very creative. Love the sign about the farm animals, cracked my Aunt and me up. Awesome illustration, picture painted crystal clear.

Note wanted to ask, do roosters only climb hens for the sense of pleasure only or they know they have a duty of fertilization? We can't be certain. I have personally never been a rooster, so I am not sure what they feel. Scientist believe roosters are driven by their nature to insure there is offspring.

What a great read, NEVER new That the sex life of a correctly pronounced' ROOSTER AND HEN could be so rewarding to read and a great laugh as I read it aloud to my friend all because of me telling her she counted her chickens before the eggs hatched and then I remembered they were called something besides chicks or chickens, she didn't believe me so I asked Siri and chose yours, what a great read, but without being to vain the way of my reading it as me being the voice of the rooster and the hen it was the funniest thing and the most I've laughed in I always wondered how they have sex and chicks, I just thought it looked stupid!

Very informative, but it's still not clear to me whether hens will lay eggs even when there is no rooster around? And if so, does having him around make any difference at all?

Feminists of the world arise! Yes - hens WILL still lay eggs without a rooster within miles. The eggs just won't be fertile. Your feminist hens won't miss having a rooster one bit! Human females also expel unfertilized eggs when males are not around about once a month.

It's called menstruation. When males ARE around and an egg is fertilized by a male, an embryo is formed, a fetus develops, and a new chick or dude is born after about nine months. My name is Joy, I Live in Nigeria. I have 50 cockerel that I am rearing 'cos I love animals.

They are one week old and two days. I bought them at a day old. Pls how can I increase digestion, assimilation and invariably conversation ratio. Thank you ma'am. I enjoy your blog. Welcome, Joy! The best way to increase digestion and let your birds get the most from their feed is to ferment the feed. If you scroll all the way up to the top of this page, you will find a "Fermented Feed" tab at the top.

The article is long, but very informative. The process of fermenting feed for your birds is easy. Many blessings -. Hi, Really enjoyed your article, I am living in apartment and have 2 months old chicks. Now they are turning big, I keep them in a box about 21". Do they need more space to mate? Shall I buy a big cage for them?

Please do reply. Thanks alot. What breed are they? Most breeds of chickens are not well suited for living in a cage that small. Even tiny bantam breeds like Serama need a space that is at least 30" x 24". If they are any bigger than Serama, the space will need to be even larger. I ask permission to use one of the images to use on my blog www. Was watching an episode of Seinfeld and wondered how eggs were fertilized.

I grew up on a farm but it never came to mind. Thanks for the easy explanation. Great article! I was sitting around this morning wondering how roosters do it with chickens, honestly, I'm not sure why that popped in my head. Very enlightening and funny! Also came here through google after this random question came to mind.

Apparently I wasn't the only one with that question, so thank you for the information as well as writing much like I would. I love your sense of humor.

You certainly aren't the only one with this question Wow, I saw this happen today and so I just googled to see what was going on. Let us know what you think. We LOVE getting feedback! Your comment may not show up right away. Due to spam I have had to turn Comment Moderation on to prevent the garbage from piling up. Sorry for the inconvenience! Compliments of my Swedish Flower Hen rooster yes — that is an oxymoron, but the capitalized part is the actual breed name and one of his Swedish Flower Hen… hens, I found myself with the material for an educational course on the birds and the bees… with an emphases on the birds.

You know? This may seem in rather poor taste to post all of this, but if you are reading this blog, chances are you live on a farm or farmette, or at very least you have or want chickens. Photo source unknown, but clearly brilliant! So please consider this a warning. If you are easily offended or embarrassed,.

Stop Reading NOW! If you are still reading, I will assume that you will not be offended or call me out for posting chicken porn on this blog.

Further, I will assume you are either curious about how eggs get fertilized, or you simply can't live without knowing how I am going to approach this delicate subject in such a public manner.

As the mother of 3 children, it would be all to easy to start out with, "When a daddy chicken loves a mommy chicken very, very much But you know?

We're all grownups here. These are chickens, not humans, so let's keep it real. It all begins with a hormonally-charged rooster looking for all the world as if he is using Joey's line from the sitcom Friends Then the Fabio side of Mr. Roo his name is Gunnar kicks in for the foreplay. If he could speak, I think it might sound something like: "Hello very fine lady.

Do you see the lovely and flamboyant dance that I do just for you. I have lowered my shockingly well-formed wing so as to allow you to see my beautiful feathers. You are impressed, no? Do you not think me divine? And here, you can practically hear Astrid's exclamation of "Ooofff" as Gunnar takes a sudden and rather clumsy leap onto her back and balances with one foot on either of her shoulders.

The act that follows takes the balance and skill of Tom Cruise's character in Mission Impossible as he navigates some ridiculously unrealistic obstacle course of deadly laser beams that we all know were electronically added in during editing. As an aside, I initially spelled "obstacle" wrong and my spell check wanted to change it to "obstetrical. Sometimes Gunnar uses his wings much like a tightrope walker uses a balance pole.

Hey - it takes skill to stand on someone's shoulders while having "relations" with them The above photo that captured the actual 2 seconds where the "home run" happened. There is no penetration, but the sperm packet released by the male is taken into the hen's cloaca or vent. From there the sperm makes its way to the infundibulum where it awaits the release of an ovum.

Sperm can live in the infundibulum for more than 2 weeks. Yeah - about 2 seconds is all the splendor in the grass that hen can expect. Chicken folks will call this part "head-skating", "shoulder-surfing" or just "mating. And I call this postition, "The Vulture" he whispered softly into her ear as he fell off her back. That's right A quick, post-coital snuggle Act like nothing happened! Here comes one of my other wives!

And then comes the egg - though it can take a few days for eggs to be fertile after the first mating of a hen and roo. Also, eggs can be fertile for up to 3 weeks following the last 2-second romantic encounter between birds. Even hens without roosters in the yard can go broody, but of course only fertile eggs will hatch.

First I push about a dozen objects larger then my own head out of my cloaca, and then I have to SIT here for 21 days! Did you HEAR that? Twenty-one days While you're off doing the wing-dance for that hussy, Ginger!