hen mount other hen and has tissue protruding

[beeayer]

one of my Rhode island reds mounted another today, which is not that abnormal for my flock, but i noticed that there was some small tissue protruding from the mounting hen, it actually looked like maybe she was mating the other hen? i cant seem to figure out what that tissue was?

 

[Mahonri]

You may have a stealth roo.

 

[MuranoFarms]

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Ummm....it can't mean roo. Roo's don't have those things.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, even a rooster doesn't have "tissue", LOL. Chickens mate like other birds with what is called the "cloacal kiss". You could have a dominant hen asserting her place or a stealth rooster, either one. If you post pics of the bird in question, we can tell you if you do.

 

[OccamsTazer]

Roos don't have the equipment a mammal male does, but when they are mating a bit of tissue appears to protrude a bit.

I say rooooooooooster!

Pretty please pics of the suspect?

 

[speckledhen]

In four years, I've never seen "tissue". Maybe my roosters are just more gentlemanly than yours, LOL!

 

[Mahonri]

My Am. rooster has a protuberance that enters the hens cloaca... I've witnessed it more than once.

 

[OccamsTazer]

My rooster has kind of bad legs...he's from a bad batch that I got from Ideal, so he doesn't really mate properly. That might be why I've seen stuff. He flops around a lot and sometimes the cloaca is still visibly open when he hops off.
He's a freak chicken though. We're not in hatching mode so his bad genes don't matter. He's a gentle soul and I wuvs him, otherwise I wouldn't keep him in the flock...

 

[speckledhen]

All birds touch their cloacae for only a few seconds, sufficient enough time for sperm to be transferred from the male to the female. All I've ever seen is the semen squirt from the male cloaca. No view of the internal protuberance. I just have more modest roosters than you guys, I tell you!

 

[MuranoFarms]

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Ditto! I even have a few teenager roos and I've never seen that!