This year, the chief rooster was named Lorenzo. Accompanied by two companions, he wandered the center of the village, singing with a head kill, day and night.
At the beginning of the summer, several shared their exasperation on social media, while many residents of the village heard it every morning.
“He had been woke us up for a year, my spouse and I, at 3:30 am,” says Chantale Daudelin, whose neighbor had taken a rooster under her wing.
She had collected the Bishop of Low this winter, when he was in bad shape, her frozen crest. She had nicknamed him Lorenzo, fed him. She attached herself to it.
From month to month, the volatile has regained the hair of the beast, and was heard more and more.
“Some residents were going crazy [à cause de ces coqs].»
— Lucie Dagenais, mayor of Frelighsburg
The municipality, alerted by the situation, sent its inspector surveying the streets in search of Lorenzo, but without success. The other two roosters had been captured at the end of spring.
“It was a superb race rooster, recognizes Ms. Daudelin. He was very intelligent and ran very quickly. ”
An unexplained presence
These events occur every summer, according to the village mayor.
“When a rooster sings near your window at 2 a.m. [que c’est une vraie nuisance].»
— Lucie Dagenais, mayor of Frelighsburg
And their presence remains completely mysterious.
“Someone told me that I have heard a car, in the middle of the night, which stops on the main street, the door that opens, then two or three roosters come out …”, says Ms. Dagenais.
“Is it an urban legend?” she questions aloud, in an interview with The voice of the EastThursday morning.
According to certain citizens, suspicions would rather point to a person. Nothing has been proven so far.
Certainly, a rooster does not take magic in the middle of a village.
“I can hardly see how roosters – there are often three or four – would decide to leave their farm to go to the village.”
Note that the municipal regulations prohibit citizens of Frelighsburg living within the urban perimeter to have a rooster.
However, they can hold up to three hens within this perimeter.
Outside the center of the village, either in agricultural territory, the roosters are allowed.
The solution: Carole’s hens
“When I saw that we offered $ 300 to capture the rooster, on a poster in the village, I told myself that we were returned too far,” says Carole Boyce, co -owner of the Pettigrew farm, determined to be part of the solution.
She then provided some hens and a cage to a neighbor of the owner of Lorenzo, in order to attract and capture him.
“It worked,” said the neighbor in question. I attracted it in my delivery with the hens, all these beautiful people was cooing, then we were able to put them in a cage. ”
Lorenzo now lives happy days “with his harem” at the Pettigrew farm, says Ms. Boyce, even if he meets 14 other roosters!
And the former neighbors of Lorenzo are grateful to him.
“Thank you,” said one of them. ” Finally, I am able to sleep! ”
— Carole Boyce, co -owner of the Pettigrew farm
““ Monsieur Lorenzo ”is very very happy, she adds. My chickens have been laying more since he was there. There are many beautiful specimens around him, I surrounded him with the cream of the cream! “
Lorenzo is now the happiest of the roosters, at the Pettigrew farm. (Carole Boyce)
Ms. Boyce expressed her infallible technique, with a smile, during the last session of the village municipal council, whose vast territory adjoins the border with the Vermont.
“Everyone was very happy with her initiative,” said the mayor, she now having a turnkey solution during the next releases of unidentified roosters.
However, Ms. Daudelin believes that the municipality, aware of the problem, should have been able to settle it.
Ms. Boyce sends a message to the person who comes to let go of roosters in the village:
“It is not a way to get rid of the roosters we no longer want. Coqs do not have their place in the middle of a village. It is on the farm that they must be. “
For the curious, the festival of the village of Frelighsburg, which will be held on Saturday August 2, will offer several activities, one of which will wink at Lorenzo, star despite himself.