I, Farm Boy! In Natural Breeding Process, Hens Choose Best Rooster Unlike in the world of humans where riches and power attract girls to an old and not-so-handsome man, female animals pick the males who could give them the best offsprings to ensure genetic survival. I often tell the story of how a rooster could mate with all 20 hens in a yard but a lone hen in a yard of tethered roosters will pick the best and choose only one rooster to fertilize her eggs. That rooster is the Alpha male, more of

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