cock-a-doodle-roo?

Cock-a-doodle-doo?

Doo we have a roo?

Cock-a-doodle-roo!

Why yes, we think we do!

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So we've been saying lots of funny things around here lately.

Things like this:

"Do you think she's a rooster?"

"Listen!  She's crowing!"

"Well, she seems like a good rooster..."

"Um, she's definitely a rooster."

"Maybe she's a transgendered or intersexed rooster.
That would be perfect for us!
A hermaph-roo-dite."

"Should we keep calling her Emmaline?"

"Maybe we should call her Coque au Vin?"

 "How do you think the old girls will take to getting mounted?"

"Maybe they'll like it when she tries to have sex with them."

"But what if she turns into a mean rooster?  a rapist rooster?" 
"Then we could have restraining-order-soup?"

"I wonder when she's going to impregnate some eggs?"

"Wait, does she have a penis?"

(fun fact:  turns out, roosters do not possess a penis!) 

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Egads.
Things are all mixed up around here.


When we go to their little coop, we still say, "Hi girls!"
Emmaline doesn't seem to mind.
She doesn't seem to identify with one pronoun over another.
And she knows she has to fit into our very funky household.


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Personally, I like having a girl rooster.

I like thinking she's a tough broad.
A motorcycle ridin' mamma
who majored in gender studies at Smith or Wells,
with tattoos on her spurs.

A Radical Roo.

That works for me!

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So, Emmaline, our very own Radical Roo...  is still figuring out her vocal cords.

She doesn't crow a lot.  Just a little.
And she's not super loud.

Sometimes she's a little raspy.
Must be all those mixed up hormones.  

Here are some videos of Emmaline in action...

Wait for it...!

(She lets out a good crow at about 15 seconds in!)

Here she is strutting her stuff a little,

and watching over Betty and Goldie while they eat...

Ever since we lost Wellie to an aerial predator (some type of hawk, we think),

Emmaline has been especially vigilant, looking everywhere for threats.

Awww shucks.

She's quite a girl!