Cockerels

When other cockerels are in the hen yard, this waltz is used significantly more and most cockerels will waltz together if dominance has not been established; either one will back off, or the two cockerels will fight.

Katriona said: "Cockerels are lovely and they're just doing their job.

Mr Nutsukpo said about 5,000 cockerels and 500 piglets for breeding stocks would be ready under the Breeding for Food and Jobs and asked the youth to take advantage of it.

On a Spanish farm they separated the hens from the cockerels – so the hens don’t get raped.

Mature male chickens less than one year old are called cockerels.

Some more aggressive cockerels will drop and extend both wings and puff out all their body feathers to give the hens or other cocks the impression of a larger size, and charge through the hen yard like a bull.

Some of them have been arrested at the British border for transporting cockerels or material for cockfights, which has led to a small cottage industry of British-owned cockerel farms.