Over recent day we have had all our neighbours calling in and telling us that one of our cockerels has escaped.
Not true. We can account for all of ours.
So I took a walk up the hill so see what the problem was( its why i had the camera with me and the panorama posted yesterday was opportunistic)
There is a cockerel, living wild next to the road. When I got close he made a noise and ran away, but I took a couple of snaps of him.
If you hatch eggs to get more laying hens then some will be cockerels.
We dispose of our excess cockerels like this and like this.
But it seems not everybody does. One way people dispose of excess cockerels is to drive out into the country and dump them by the side of road, which is what we think has happened here.
So the cockerel will forage as best he can , or get taken by an otter, or die of starvation.
Wringing their necks doesn't seem so bad.
I'm told is also a way of getting rid of excess cats as well .
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