The hen of Gré and Rien Bolle from Oosterland who turned into a rooster is no more: 'Now we are being called flat again'
OOSTERLAND - It received national media attention: the hen from Oosterland that became a rooster. Gré and Rien Bolle's chicken is dead. "He committed suicide."
Valeska Nastaly 25-11-21, 13:26Last update: 19:21
Rien Bolle thought it was funny, all those journalists who massively threw themselves into the news about their transgender chicken. “Now we are being called again. My wife is getting tired of it. It's just a chicken for us," he says. Of course they didn't like it, but to say that they are grieving? “I have chickens. They are walking around in a kind of animal park. We always find it easy to have a few at home for when you have leftover food.”
He never really clucked, it was more like moaning.
Rien Bollea
The hen, which started to show more and more features of a rooster at the end of August, has not even been with the Bolle couple in Oosterland for a year. They've had chickens all their lives, but they've never seen a chicken change sex before. Yet that is more common, especially in the absence of a rooster. The hen grew more comb and spurs on its legs and began to cluck. “He has never really done a cluck, it was more like moaning,” says Rien.
rat poison
The chicken died after some pecks of rat poison that emerged when Rien was clearing his woodshed. “There was a broken plastic bag with a few grains of rat poison. So I went to get a dustpan and dustpan to clean it up, but by then he was already pecking at it. He just committed suicide.”
The sister of the deceased rooster-to-be is no longer alone. “I added another chicken from my park.”
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OOSTERLAND - It received national media attention: the hen from Oosterland that became a rooster. Gré and Rien Bolle's chicken is dead. "He committed suicide."
Valeska Nastaly 25-11-21, 13:26Last update: 19:21
Rien Bolle thought it was funny, all those journalists who massively threw themselves into the news about their transgender chicken. “Now we are being called again. My wife is getting tired of it. It's just a chicken for us," he says. Of course they didn't like it, but to say that they are grieving? “I have chickens. They are walking around in a kind of animal park. We always find it easy to have a few at home for when you have leftover food.”
He never really clucked, it was more like moaning.
Rien Bollea
The hen, which started to show more and more features of a rooster at the end of August, has not even been with the Bolle couple in Oosterland for a year. They've had chickens all their lives, but they've never seen a chicken change sex before. Yet that is more common, especially in the absence of a rooster. The hen grew more comb and spurs on its legs and began to cluck. “He has never really done a cluck, it was more like moaning,” says Rien.
rat poison
The chicken died after some pecks of rat poison that emerged when Rien was clearing his woodshed. “There was a broken plastic bag with a few grains of rat poison. So I went to get a dustpan and dustpan to clean it up, but by then he was already pecking at it. He just committed suicide.”
The sister of the deceased rooster-to-be is no longer alone. “I added another chicken from my park.”
Google translated from:
De hen van Gré en Rien Bolle uit Oosterland die veranderde in een haan is niet meer: ‘Nu worden we weer platgebeld’
OOSTERLAND - Landelijke media-aandacht kreeg ie: de hen uit Oosterland die haan werd. De kip van Gré en Rien Bolle is dood. ,,Hij heeft zelfmoord gepleegd.”
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