Real conversation this evening with my 8 and 10-year-old daughters as my wife (Wendi Huisman Kitsteiner) was packaging eggs from our laying chickens…
First daughter: “Dad, chickens don’t lay eggs from their butts, right?”
Me: “No. Birds don’t have butts. They only have one hole. It’s called a cloaca.”
First daughter: “They pee and poop out of their cloaca?”
Me: “Yes. Birds and reptiles and amphibians all have cloacas.”
Son (who I didn’t know was listening): “Fish do, too.”
Me: “Nice. Yes, some fish have cloacas also.”
Second daughter: “Wait… do they mate out of that hole also?”
Me: “Yes.”
First daughter: “Wow! That’s quite a hole. It does everything!”
Me: “… uh… well… yes.”
I didn’t really have a response to that statement.
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