Bird fanciers Calvin Hooper and his wife Liz take these roving roosters to their new home. "It's great to know such lovely creatures are headed to pastures rather than the pot," Leslie Groves Hospital facility manager Max Reid said yesterday. The three Plymouth Rock roosters came striding into the grounds of the hospital in Wakari about two weeks ago. He already has more than 80 birds, including a Plymouth Rock hen, and plans to return to bird showing. If the birds had not been uplifted by a bird fancier they could well have been in a cooking pot "tonight or tomorrow".

Source: Otago Daily Times July 18, 2019 14:37 UTC