Quotes about roosters (8 Quotes)


    We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard.

    One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. 'Dozens of times, was the reply.' 'Please tell that to the President,' Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked 'Same hen every time' 'Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time.' The President nodded slowly, then said, 'Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.'


    Crows are what are known as colonial roosters -- they roost in a colony at night. That area in the east end near Homewood is where all of our crows, from who knows how far away, go. At times there's 20,000 crows down there.

    As soon as the first drop of dawn dilutes the blackness, the neighbors begin their unbelievable racket, first the roosters, then the radios, then the live accompaniment to the radios - and then it's time to wind up the little children and start their screams and tears.


    You can't maintain a pit or other facilities for fighting, but the county has no law against owning birds. There's a lucrative business in the buying and selling of specially bred roosters.

    The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH




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