2007-07-26 05:48:21 · 15 answers · asked by chloe s 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
The same way everything else mates... they are not fishies
But if you blink you might miss it... teehee
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2007-07-26 05:53:34 · answer #1 · answered by H.O.T. Dog 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The female crouches down and the male mounts her, sometimes grabbing her neck feathers with his beak to stabilise himself (my quails do this neck feather grabbing thing all the time). Their cloacas (vents) meet and the male transfers his sperm into the hen. In chickens and most other birds this is carried out very quickly.
The following is a very interesting extract on egg-laying and the structure of the egg itself:
"...Only one group of back-boned animals has never evolved a live-bearing species: birds. Every bird in the world lays eggs...As an ovum passes down the duct leading from a female's ovary, it is joined by a bag of yolk that will provide it with all the food necessary for it to develop into a chick. It is then fertilised by a single sperm. This, in some species, will be one of a batch delivered within the last few hours by an attentive male; in others it will come from a mass delivery of several million which arrived days or even weeks earlier, which has been stored in tubules opening from the female's oviduct, and since then has fertilised a succession of eggs. The embryo, to develop properly, will need water and this is provided by albumen which is swathed around the yolk. Wrapped in membranes, the whole bundle moves on down the oviduct, until it reaches a section which is surrounded by a lime-secreting gland. This adds the shell. A little further down the duct, other glands may decorate the shell [depending on the species] with specks of pigment, usually derived from blood or bile...And then, propelled by a muscular contraction, the finished egg is ejected into the outside world...The shell also has to be porous, for the chick within must be able to take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide..."
2007-07-27 03:25:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Net said is correct except that chickens breed daily. They don't shrink their sex organs for migrating. Hens and roosters have what is called a vent. It is under their tail and is a slit about 1 1/2 inches long. It is where the eggs are laid from as well. Eggs are fertilized inside the female who usually has several days worth of eggs forming inside of her.
2007-07-26 09:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by justme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All birds have sex organs that shrink down during the autumn(less weight to carry when they migrate) & come back during the spring. Males develop a "cloacal protruberance", which functions basically like the penis on a mammal. The female crouches down, the male kind of flutters on top of her, she moves her tail to one side, & it takes maybe 2 seconds at the most.
[Waterfowl, like ducks & geese, have a permanent "male appendage". The actual mating looks pretty similar, only it generally happens on the water while they're swimming.]
2007-07-26 05:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by net 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well... the little male willy goes into the little females hole where the egg comes out and the little sperm swim up and meet with the egg they then start to grow together and the little cells start to split and divide till the cell gets bigger and bigger and then the mummy chicken layes an egg and sits on it and roles it over every now and again till a little tiny yellow chick breaks out of the egg. ok hope this helps
2007-07-26 06:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The cockeral jumps on top of the hen, grabs her at the back of the neck to stop him falling off and mateing takes place in a couple of seconds
2007-07-26 06:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you need to have females and at least one roster. They copulate and fertilize the eggs inside. You wont see a thing on the outside.
2007-07-26 06:00:28 · answer #7 · answered by daniela 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's called, Treading.
The male mounts the hen, giving the appearence that he is standing on the hen's back, and then he puts he's little "pecker" into her little bit.
2007-07-27 05:41:47 · answer #8 · answered by dann_501 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a wonderful site that can answer all your chicken questions.
www.the-coop.org/cgi-bin/UBB/ultimatebb.cgi
2007-07-26 07:49:36 · answer #9 · answered by Mumbles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They make little chicken porn movies and do the nasty just like, well chickens.
Its rough though. I heard the male bites the female somewhere to get her ready. Warm the oven, get her heated, Get the idea. No crap.
Chicken rough sex, yeahhhh.
2007-07-26 06:07:44 · answer #10 · answered by sooooo angry 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋