How do chickens reproduce?

Question

So we were discussing it and wonder "How do Roosters fertilize the egg?"
Does he have a hidden penis...does he do something after the egg is lone, or something else?

Answer 1

From what I understand a rooster only has to have sex with a chicken occasionally and the chicken will lay fertile eggs for a period of time afterwards.

The eggs you buy at the store are nonfertile eggs.

Answer 2

Let me begin with the fertilization of eggs in the mating of a rooster with a hen.

Birds, like mammals, use internal fertilization. Many species of birds lack a penis; instead, the male just has a genital opening (cloaca), which must be positioned against the female's genital opening (also called a cloaca) for sperm transfer. Male chickens, however, do have a small penis to facilitate mating. In any case, after copulation, which only lasts a few seconds, the sperm quickly swim up the oviduct toward the ovary. The sperm can stay alive in the oviduct for several weeks, ready to fertilize the next egg cell (oocyte) that appears.

Oocytes are produced in the ovary, packaged with yolk within a thin protein membrane, and released one at a time into the funnel-like infundibulum of the oviduct. The oviduct is a tubular passageway leading from the ovary to the outside world. It is also an assembly line in which the various layers of the egg are constructed. After an oocyte-yolk package is released into the infundibulum, it lingers there for about 20 minutes. If sperm are present, then the oocyte is fertilized and becomes an embryo. But if no sperm are around (that is, if the hen has not mated), then the egg still proceeds down the assembly line of the oviduct. In this assembly line, albumen (egg white) is added around the yolk, shell membranes are added, and the shell itself is constructed. Finally, the complete egg is pushed through the vagina and out the cloaca.

If the egg has been fertilized, then the embryo inside has already divided several times but remains a group of unspecialized cells. When the egg is incubated at about 37 to 38 °C, the embryonic cells differentiate to form a chick, which will hatch after 21 days. If the egg has not been fertilized, then the oocyte within will never grow or divide, and the egg will never hatch. The eggs you buy at the supermarket are eggs that have never been fertilized.

Domestic chickens lay one egg every 26 to 28 hours (about one egg a day) for a period of 4 to 6 days. In between periods of egg laying, the hen rests. Wild birds may rest for months before laying more eggs, but domestic hens, specially bred for abundant egg production, may rest for as little as 1 day between egg-laying periods. Note that hens will lay eggs even without mating with a rooster.

Commercially, if the goal is to produce eggs, then hens are kept away from roosters, and eggs are collected as they are laid. If the goal is to produce poultry meat, then hens are mated with roosters, and the eggs are incubated to give rise to chicks. Of course, even a farm that produces only eggs will need to have some matings to replace the hens that grow too old to lay eggs.

Answer 3

The rooster and hen must touch their cloacas together. The cloaca is located just under the tail, so the hen must move her tail to one side or up while the rooster mounts her. The sperm passes externally from one cloaca to the other.

"In zoological anatomy, a cloaca is the posterior opening that serves as the only such opening for the intestinal, urinary, and (usually) genital tracts of certain animal species. The word comes from Latin, and means "sewer". All birds, reptiles, and amphibians possess this orifice, from which they excrete both urine and feces (unlike mammals (excluding monotremes), who possess two separate orifices for evacuation). Marsupials and monotremes also possess one (in marsupials and a few birds, the genital tract is separate). In contrast, each individual among most species of placental mammals and bony fishes has, in lieu of a cloaca, a specialized opening for at least one of these tracts.

In birds the cloaca is also referred to as the vent, and among Falconers the word vent is also a verb meaning "to defecate."

From Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

the rooster doe have a penis he fertiles the hen before she produces th egg , then she lays it and hatches them

Answer 5

hahahahahaha,heheh,lol lol,thanx 4 the laugh ,may i ask y ur askin dis???????anyway dude i think they do have a hidden penis somewhere and the rooster bangs the female

Answer 6

they banged a rooster

Answer 7

beats me