We have already had a reference this afternoon to the cockerel feathering his nest while the hen sits on the eggs.
Cockerels, cowslips and violets are disappearing from many people's lives.
The cockerel is very much more objectionable than the hen, however, in the noise that it makes.
I remember being shown a chicken run which had housed about 30 hens and several cockerels.
If the injected pellet affects all the parts of the cockerel, why should it not affect the flesh?
I notice that devoicing of cockerels is now a prohibited operation.
Formerly one could not keep a cockerel in the backyard of a council house.
Is she saying that people who live in the countryside should no longer be able to keep cockerels, a tradition going back many centuries?
