In our house some topics just happen in strange conversations....
Solar was telling me about his dream of a rooster standing peeing and falling over. I commented that roosters do not have a penis. Hence the discussion started.
Instead of an external organ resembling a penis, the rooster has a small bump, or papilla, located on the back wall of the cloaca under the tail feathers.
http://www.ehow.com/info_8664210_reproductive-system-rooster.html (http://www.ehow.com/info_8664210_reproductive-system-rooster.html)
Having been raised with chickens all I remember is the rooster always trying to jump on the back of the hens. Toy :rolleyes:
Then why are they called Cocks?
Is this one of those things like calling your 6'8" 300 lb friend, Tiny? :laugh:
Quote from: Solar on February 24, 2013, 07:53:00 AM
Then why are they called Cocks?
Is this one of those things like calling your 6'8" 300 lb friend, Tiny? :laugh:
Cock is short for cockerel, from the french coquelet. :biggrin: Seven years of french finally came in handy. :lol:
Quote from: JustKari on February 24, 2013, 09:51:32 AM
Cock is short for cockerel, from the french coquelet. :biggrin: Seven years of french finally came in handy. :lol:
Actually, the cockerel is a you male chicken, when the reach adulthood, they are referred to as cocks.
http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/coquelet (http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/coquelet)
Quote from: JustKari on February 24, 2013, 09:51:32 AM
Cock is short for cockerel, from the french coquelet. :biggrin: Seven years of french finally came in handy. :lol:
Three and a 1/2 years of high school German and other that a few phrases the only thing I do remember is the first verse of Silent Night and the Dr Pepper commercial I translated and performed for the class....
Toy :tounge:
I dunno about chickens... but ducks sure do. And they are damn weird.
Actually, I've worked alot with poultry- duck genitals aren't nearly as bad as prolapses.
Well, I would have called an adult male chicken a rooster, not a cock, but apparently there is a difference.
From Wiki, please forgive me, but it was a good explanation:
QuoteWell, etymologically, the difference is in the USE of said bird. 'Rooster' is an adult male bird kept for EATING, or one who occupies the roost, as opposed to a bird kept for breeding purposes....
Hence I have a cage of roosters without any hens, that I will slaughter for the table, but I have only one cock with each group of hens. A bird over a year, but still edible is a rooster, a bird over 5 and not headed for the table, but kept for breeding is a cock.
So there you have it, they are called cock, because they are kept exclusively for breeding.
This used to bug the heck out of me when I first started learning anatomy. :blush: :blush: :blush:
Young me, wondering: "How do you tell a male bird from a female bird?"
Quote from: CubaLibre on February 28, 2013, 06:02:48 AM
This used to bug the heck out of me when I first started learning anatomy. :blush: :blush: :blush:
Young me, wondering: "How do you tell a male bird from a female bird?"
And............ Toy
Quote from: Solars Toy on March 01, 2013, 05:31:02 PM
And............ Toy
My good wife raised song birds canary. You need to look at their rear-end and know what your looking for. LOL
I was "gifted" by my sister a few years back with a couple of young chickens she said would be great laying hens. After I built them a spiffy henhouse with an array of nesting boxes and roosting perches, and spent a friggin' fortune on high-grade chicken feed, these two "laying hens" took to crowing on my front porch every morning around 4:30. The bigger one, with the dark feathers, could crow non-stop for two hours, a skill he promptly shared with his younger brother, the one with the white feathers, who extended the early A.M. crowing routine to THREE hours.
They sure sounded like roosters to me.
They sure tasted good too.
Is there a way to tell? How do you know if a young chicken is M or F?
Quote from: TboneAgain on March 05, 2013, 04:24:26 PM
I was "gifted" by my sister a few years back with a couple of young chickens she said would be great laying hens. After I built them a spiffy henhouse with an array of nesting boxes and roosting perches, and spent a friggin' fortune on high-grade chicken feed, these two "laying hens" took to crowing on my front porch every morning around 4:30. The bigger one, with the dark feathers, could crow non-stop for two hours, a skill he promptly shared with his younger brother, the one with the white feathers, who extended the early A.M. crowing routine to THREE hours.
They sure sounded like roosters to me.
They sure tasted good too.
Is there a way to tell? How do you know if a young chicken is M or F?
Yep, roosters are tastier. :laugh:
Quote from: Solar on March 05, 2013, 04:34:44 PM
Yep, roosters are tastier. :laugh:
Correct: they are yummy!
But my question is: how do you tell? Do you spread their legs and poke around? Do you have them fill out a questionnaire? Do you resort to DNA testing?
Quote from: TboneAgain on March 05, 2013, 04:50:18 PM
Correct: they are yummy!
But my question is: how do you tell? Do you spread their legs and poke around? Do you have them fill out a questionnaire? Do you resort to DNA testing?
From what I've read, you really can't tell, that's why as soon as they showed signs of becoming a cock, most people cooked them because they didn't want fertilized eggs.
Quote from: Solar on March 05, 2013, 05:02:54 PM
From what I've read, you really can't tell, that's why as soon as they showed signs of becoming a cock, most people cooked them because they didn't want fertilized eggs.
I would have settled for ANY kind of eggs! LOL!!! Needless to say, I didn't get any.
I still would like to have some backyard chickens. I think I'll make 'em fill out questionnaires next time... :tounge:
Quote from: TboneAgain on March 05, 2013, 07:10:06 PM
I would have settled for ANY kind of eggs! LOL!!! Needless to say, I didn't get any.
I still would like to have some backyard chickens. I think I'll make 'em fill out questionnaires next time... :tounge:
Chickens are on my list of things to get. The list just seems to get bigger every day, Toy :smile:
Maybe we should apply for a government grant, apparently there is plenty of money for finding fowl physiology. :glare:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/384949-federal-study-looks-plasticity-duck-penis-length (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/384949-federal-study-looks-plasticity-duck-penis-length)
If they can get grants to find out why lesbians are overweight alcoholics why not this one. Maybe we could get something for both of us taking in the climate change in various areas of the United States and how it affects the penile growth of a rooster.
Toy :smile: :smile:
Quote from: Solars Toy on March 20, 2013, 05:55:27 PM
If they can get grants to find out why lesbians are overweight alcoholics why not this one. Maybe we could get something for both of us taking in the climate change in various areas of the United States and how it affects the penile growth of a rooster.
Toy :smile: :smile:
Please leave
my Roosters alone. :laugh:
Quote from: walkstall on March 20, 2013, 07:30:26 PM
Please leave my Roosters alone. :laugh:
:smile: :smile: :smile:
Quote from: walkstall on March 20, 2013, 07:30:26 PM
Please leave my Roosters alone. :laugh:
Just claim they're gay, that way they're a protected class. :rolleyes:
Quote from: Solar on March 20, 2013, 07:49:41 PM
Just claim they're gay, that way they're a protected class. :rolleyes:
The boys thank you.
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Quote from: walkstall on March 20, 2013, 08:57:42 PM
The boys thank you.
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:laugh:Well played!
Now if they were fat, alcoholic, lesbian hens...all bets are off.
Quote from: JustKari on March 21, 2013, 07:17:28 AM
Now if they were fat, alcoholic, lesbian hens...all bets are off.
:laugh:
Hmmmm... would they still lay eggs, or simply deny their existence?
Quote from: Solar on March 21, 2013, 07:30:02 AM
:laugh:
Hmmmm... would they still lay eggs, or simply deny their existence?
Guess we'll need to apply for two government grants. :laugh:
Quote from: JustKari on March 21, 2013, 07:34:32 AM
Guess we'll need to apply for two government grants. :laugh:
Kari - we missed the boat and picked the wrong bird....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to Yale University for a study on "Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia", according to the recovery.gov website.
http://nation.foxnews.com/government-spending/2013/03/20/384949-federal-study-looks-plasticity-duck-penis-length (http://nation.foxnews.com/government-spending/2013/03/20/384949-federal-study-looks-plasticity-duck-penis-length)
Duck penis - so close.... Toy :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Solars Toy on March 23, 2013, 07:07:50 PM
Kari - we missed the boat and picked the wrong bird....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to Yale University for a study on "Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia", according to the recovery.gov website.
http://nation.foxnews.com/government-spending/2013/03/20/384949-federal-study-looks-plasticity-duck-penis-length (http://nation.foxnews.com/government-spending/2013/03/20/384949-federal-study-looks-plasticity-duck-penis-length)
Duck penis - so close.... Toy :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
That's the study I was talking about in reply 17, it made me reopen this thread. They have enough money for this, "research" but not enough to keep the WH open...pure stupidity.
Quote from: JustKari on March 24, 2013, 06:09:24 AM
That's the study I was talking about in reply 17, it made me reopen this thread. They have enough money for this, "research" but not enough to keep the WH open...pure stupidity.
Yes it is. I just don't know if those who worship this man can see the stupidity. Toy