This Shropshire cockerel enjoyed Christmas dinner in a new coop making friends after being forced out of his old home.Henry, the white cockerel, had to leave his home at The Hem in Shifnal after one of his fellow chickens turned out to be another cockerel.
Following an appeal in the Shropshire Star, Henry’s previous owner, Julia Prior said: “Henry went to a new home on Friday to settle in in time for Christmas.
“A woman saw me and Henry in the Shropshire Star and knew my husband and asked if she could have him,” Mrs Prior said.
“A fox had killed all of the woman’s chickens and her cockerel.”
She added: “She had replaced the chickens but still didn’t have a cockerel so she has now got Henry.”
Mrs Prior was forced to find Henry a new home when one of her chickens which she had named Betty was in fact a cockerel.
Betty has since been re-named as Greg.
Mrs Prior added: “I was really sad to see him go but he couldn’t stay in the same pen with another cockerel.
“Thanks to the Shropshire Star he’s gone to a good home.”
Henry has gone to a new home near Kemberton.
Mrs Prior said since getting the chickens as an early Christmas present her home had been turned into a scene from The Archers.
She said it was “very exciting” to discover freshly laid eggs during daily checks of the pen.
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“A woman saw me and Henry in the Shropshire Star and knew my husband and asked if she could have him,”
I think she was making a move on your husband. ;o)