Motherwell star Tony Watt was left devastated after his pet chickens were killed and devoured by a greedy badger.
The ex-Celtic striker, 31, kept his feathered friends in a coop in his back garden for more than a year and even used their eggs for his pre-match omelettes. That’s helped him stay high in the attacking pecking order at Fir Park after joining Well on loan from Dundee United.
But the former Scotland frontman was Clucking Mad when a black and white striped predator broke into the henhouse and wreaked havoc under his pal’s watch. He told Open Goal: “I was moving house and we were going on holiday. I asked if he could take care of the chickens until I got sorted. I put them in the farm. It was all good. Then I got a text saying ‘we’ve got loads of baby chickens’. I asked if it was my chickens that gave birth. He replied ‘no, your chickens are all dead’.”
Watt was then left heartbroken when his friend sent him a picture of the nocturnal mammal that feasted on his beloved poultry pals. However, the journeyman forward wasn’t offered much sympathy in the Motherwell changing room as the story left his teammates in stitches.
Well midfielder Halliday laughed: “He came in gutted and all the boys ripped the p**s out him for about four hours. He texted the group chat saying his chickens had died — a badger ate them.”