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Hand painted porcelain Sitting Rooster
Measures 1 inch wide x 1 1/4 tall at the tail x 1 1/4 long beak to tail.
"Soft-paste porcelain"
is a type of a
ceramic material, used in the
manufacture of small figurines. Each of these cast figurines is then hand
painted and backed in a porcelain kiln. Small differences in the painting occur
from painter to painter.
A rooster (also
called a cock or chanticleer) is a male
chicken , the female being called a
hen. Immature male chickens of less
than a year's age are called cockerels. The oldest term is "cock", from
Old English coc. But because
"cock" is more frequently used as a slang term referring to the penis, this term
is generally avoided for the sake of both propriety and clarity, although it
remains accurate. It is replaced by synonyms: "cockerel" (which properly refers
to a young male chicken) in the
United Kingdom, and "rooster" (a
relative neologism) in
North America and
Australia. "Roosting" is the action of
perching aloft to sleep at night, and is actually done by both
sexes. The rooster is
non-monogamous, but cannot guard
several nests of eggs at once. He guards the general area where his hens are
nesting, and will attack other
roosters who enter his territory. During the daytime, he often sits on a high
perch, usually 4–5 feet off the ground, to serve as a lookout for his flock. He
will sound a distinctive
alarm call if
predators are nearby.
The rooster is often
(accurately) pictured in art as crowing at the break of dawn. He can often be
seen sitting on fence posts or other objects, where he crows to proclaim his
territory. However, when a rooster might crow at any time of day, if he looks
into the sun - even sometimes on a bright moonlit night. He has several other
calls as well, and can cluck the same as a hen. Roosters will occasionally make
a pattern following clucking sound to attract hens to a source of food.
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