Well at least them reporting you will bring the cockerels back.

It should be a requirement that you have to prove animal cruelty before you can bring the accusations.

At the stage the cockerels are on a ledge.

As in - allegedly. Personally I’d have had them prepared for the pot.

Capon (it is the same thing I think- although I’m not in the mood to google it. I think castration comes into it somewhere) is delicious for stew, pie meat, low and slow cooking or stock making.