Too many cocks improve the broth!

So...it has been on the cards for awhile...all the chicks that have survived from last year have all been males and following the various quoll and fox attacks we were down to eight 'chooks' four hens and four cockerels.Odin, always second fiddle to Yudhisthira, was sent to a harem of his own on the farm of one of Will's work colleagues and is very happy there. That left three cockerels Yudhisthira, Wang-Mu (son of Mu) and the Devil's cock who we hadn't named but who was most unfriendly, very noisy and lately a bully. His days have been numbered for awhile now but the other day when he and Wang-Mu had a terrible fight which left Wang-Mu bloodied and sulking for two days, the Devil's cock time was up.We caught him and separated him from the others while he was roosting the other night ready and popped him in a crate for the chop but when Will went the next morning to give it some water the evil thing flew at Will and escaped to survive another day. I went and caught him again last night and returned him to Solitary Confinement.I was working this afternoon at the Book Cave (Holy Novellas Book Man!) and came home to find a large pot bubbling away on the stove...the deed had been done and the Devil's cock was no more.It was kind of Will to despatch it while I was away ...except I found it's head still lying on the chopping block out at the back looking very sorry for itself.Still, it lived all it's short life here at Frogknot and despite the terror of the quoll in the night and being carried off in the jaws of a fox until rescued by Will it had a pretty happy and comfortable life.Coq au vin for us tonight...it smells delicious!