Rampaging cockerel chases shocked mum and five-year-old son round garden

Funny CCTV footage shows a rampaging cockerel chasing a shocked mother and her five-year-old son through their garden to keep them away from its hens.

Charlie and Alfie Thorpe wanted to collect some eggs from their chickens in West Yorkshire but, instead, provoked the rooster to chase them up the garden path.

“He’s usually not like that. He’s quite domesticated. When he gets fed, he likes to be stroked,” Charlie's mum, Bettina Croft, said.

“He just suddenly decided he didn’t want Charlie and Alfie near the hens because he has all these little ‘girlfriends’ around him.”