The other sad news from our flock is that our rooster has suffered a freak (and fatal) accident. We were planning on moving him on after selling his brother at the end of last year. We don't want any further in-breeding in the flock and it's too hard dealing with chicks when the hens won't lay in the hutch anymore. He was a beautiful bird though so I was sure that we'd find a good home for him.
I was therefore really quite sad to flip over the empty fish bin that we use as the sheep's drinking trough and find him underneath. He must have sat on the downhill edge of the bin when it was empty and tipped it over the top of him. It would have been too heavy for him to shift and we wouldn't have heard his crows. I laid him to rest in the bush with the sheep as mourners.
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