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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/ManicalDaredevil00 • Feb 18 '25
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That would explain the term "pecking order," and as someone who owns chickens in my backyard, that makes sense.
• u/BullsOnParadeFloats Feb 18 '25 Even if you don't have a rooster, occasionally, a hen will end up becoming the alpha. • u/EHTL Feb 18 '25 iirc there’s a rare disease of the ovary that hens can get which will force them to produce hormones that turn them into roosters • u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not a rooster in the sense that they become male, but in the sense that they will produce more testosterone, become larger, and may even crow like a rooster, but they will still be female. • u/EHTL Feb 19 '25 ah so more like rooster-presenting then? • u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not really, just really mean.
Even if you don't have a rooster, occasionally, a hen will end up becoming the alpha.
• u/EHTL Feb 18 '25 iirc there’s a rare disease of the ovary that hens can get which will force them to produce hormones that turn them into roosters • u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not a rooster in the sense that they become male, but in the sense that they will produce more testosterone, become larger, and may even crow like a rooster, but they will still be female. • u/EHTL Feb 19 '25 ah so more like rooster-presenting then? • u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not really, just really mean.
iirc there’s a rare disease of the ovary that hens can get which will force them to produce hormones that turn them into roosters
• u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not a rooster in the sense that they become male, but in the sense that they will produce more testosterone, become larger, and may even crow like a rooster, but they will still be female. • u/EHTL Feb 19 '25 ah so more like rooster-presenting then? • u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not really, just really mean.
Not a rooster in the sense that they become male, but in the sense that they will produce more testosterone, become larger, and may even crow like a rooster, but they will still be female.
• u/EHTL Feb 19 '25 ah so more like rooster-presenting then? • u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not really, just really mean.
ah so more like rooster-presenting then?
• u/OR56 Feb 19 '25 Not really, just really mean.
Not really, just really mean.
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u/Atomic_Foundry_3996 Feb 18 '25
That would explain the term "pecking order," and as someone who owns chickens in my backyard, that makes sense.