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(From Bristol Evening Post)
By Geoff Bennett HE's called Freaky the cockerel - but the truth is that the belligerent bird used to be a she.
The silver-laced Wyandotte bantam struts around his field and protects his hens, crowing his lungs out with each sunrise.
He's got so much testosterone he can't help trying to attack the other cockerels on his patch and, given half a chance, would be romantically linked to all the hens.
But Freaky, from Saltford, near Bristol, is a natural-born gender bender.
For the first eight months of his life he was a she, happily laying on eggs, being regularly romanced by a rooster lover and generally…