Now they're coooookin'! (This post contains scenes that some may find disturbing.)

So...with our departure to 'Up Over' fast approaching today we had to have a rooster cull. Four roosters were despatched from Branwen's and Sheng Mu's first hatchlings last  year. Soon the 'chooks' will be penned up for weeks and it would have been no fun with five roosters in close confinement. I spent the morning at a CPR refresher course for the 'Book Cave' and returned to find the cull in full swing. Despite my training there was little I could do to save the four victims.

There are six of the chicks left from Sheng-Mu's second brood, that we had to hand rear for a few days following her exhaustion. Two of the original eight now live next door replacing those the fox took while our neighbours were on holiday. We will name/ eat the remaining six when we know whether they are hens or roosters.