BELAGAVI: A Belagavi family has celebrated the fifth birthday of a pair of roosters at their home, replete with cake-cutting and lighting of lamps. Images and videos of the “party” have gone viral and the Langarkande family have drawn praise for their love of the birds. The roosters made an appearance on the cake icing, birthday banners and also dropped in for a brief look.
The Langarkandes of Maali Galli has 10 members, including three children and the two roosters, Veeru and Sheru. Meghan said the roosters were brought from the market as chicks on December 20 five years ago.
“We bought a total of seven chicks. Unfortunately, five of them died within six months. These two turned out be healthy so we decided to name them Veeru and Sheru,” he said. “Our family deals in arecanuts and business was very dull then. We started doing well soon after the birds came home so my father believes they brought us good fortune.”
‘The two roosters are like family members’
The kids are so comfortable with the birds now that they play with them and feed them. The party was held at home, it was a family celebration.”
The birds are usually fed biscuits in the morning and grains in the day. “They are like family members so we thought of cutting cakes and lighting lamps,” Meghan said.
“Veeru & Sheru have become like our children, only that they wake up before us and wake us up to go about our business,” says Meghan.