Farewell, The Boys

[ClareA]

When I chose chickens a few months ago I rather innocently picked youngsters, whose gender characteristics hadn't become obvious. Therefore, three of the four I picked turned out to be cockerels! Everyone was quite happy for a while - my partner, our landlord and I weren't bothered by them. Then the landlord got a phone call from someone who said he'd been disturbed by them since Christmas (so why had he said nothing before?).

So 'The Boys' had to go. Other Half was all for them going in the pot, but this was vetoed by me. Saviour of the day turned out to be landlord's tree surgeon, who proved to be an excellent chicken-catcher, beyond the call of duty.

Cockerels are now in new, happy homes, neighbour has no more disturbed nights, and I am looking forward to choosing new hens, to accompany the two remaining ones - Clementine & Dhoona - who wonder where their men have gone!
(The three cockerels were named Stockpot Sam, Hotpot Harry, & Casserole Charlie).

[mandisma]

eh?

[Jan1957]

Que?

[tamborine]

I'll have 10 -1 on CC.

[Teddy_boy]

Charlie , Harry and Sam could be appearing at an Asda cooked chicken counter for all that Clementine and Dhoona know.

[ClareA]

Not sure why mandisma and Jan1957 didn't seem to get what I was on about. The next two posters did. I thought the comment about the remaining hens not knowing the fate of their former swains particularly amusing! New hens on Tuesday.

[daffy654]

I understood your post perfectly well Clare :)

[dotty.]

and can i have some of wot you are on please?

[ummmm]

So did I

[ClareA]

Dotty - am on Tesbury's finest red - cheers!

[ClareA]

Clementine & Dhoona still a bit perplexed as to the absence of cockerels, and it just being them. Come Tuesday they will have new friends to gossip with - if my neighbour & I are successful at catching three more hens from the farm!

[JonnyBoy12]

Looks like there has been a cock-up here, clarea! If you told them you wanted layers then you should not have been sold them in the first place. I hope you would not reject my company as I am male, clare!

[craft1948]

If you bought 4, 3 of which were cockerels so they had to go, how come you've got 2 left.

[Jemisa]

3 names for your new hens clare. - Clarris Tallulah - Esmerelda.

jem

[ClareA]

JonnyBoy12, the people on the farm aren't selling them as a business. They're friends, and the arrangement is a quite informal 'yer catch yer own'! I only give them a token £3.00 per bird, toward feed, etc. So really it was my and my neighbour's fault for choosing birds that were too young to tell one way or the other.

craft1948, I can see why the numbers are misleading! I had one (Clementine) already, the last of an original four from a few years ago. After the neighbour's partner freaked upon seeing what we must call here on the IOM a 'longtail' near their pen, I inherited their care.
They were quite mature hens and gradually died of old age, leaving Clementine. Dhoona's the only hen of the 'new' four.

Jemisa, I love your suggestions for names, though I want to give them Manx ones. The three boys originally had Manx girls' names, but our landlord humorously renamed them Stockpot Sam, Hotpot Harry & Casserole Charlie when we learned what they were.