Mr. Bear and I keep hens, and one of the hens hatched a few chicks earlier this summer. Of the four who hatched, two fell foul of a magpie just after they hatched, and another was picked off by a local fox a few weeks later.
The remaining chick has now grown up, and it turns out that he's a, eh, lively rooster. As we're in the 'burbs, our neighbours won't be best impressed if we keep a rooster, so we're looking for a new home for him. Having survived two assaults, it'd be a shame to send him for the chop.
He is a pure-breed cuckoo maran, 16 weeks old, and he answers to the name of 'Tiny'.
