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‘Cage-free’ rooster plucked off street
He ran a-fowl of the law.
A feisty, all-white rooster ruffled feathers Wednesday when he was spotted strutting his stuff on the streets of lower Manhattan — prompting cops to cart him away to a police station.
Neighbors began squawking about the bird as it ran free near the busy waterfront intersection of South Street and Catherine Slip at around 11:15 a.m.
An onlooker named Cano caught the cocky little clucker and placed him in a cardboard box as another neighbor called 911.
Cops then flocked to the scene and nicknamed the rooster Chad — possibly after a “chicken”-like co-worker — before hauling him into the 5th Precinct station.
When The Post stopped by to learn the fate of the city-dwelling squawker Wednesday afternoon, the sound of the rooster crowing could be heard booming from inside the police station.
The feathered loudmouth will soon be transported to an upstate animal sanctuary, which will place him in a home, a police source said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the rooster was a pet or from where he’d come.
The roaming rooster wasn’t the first farm animal to take the city by surprise this week.
A cow ran wild on the streets of Canarsie Tuesday after it escaped a local slaughterhouse. Several Brooklynites joined forces to herd the on-the-moooove black calf, including one man who tried to tug its tail, a pizza shop worker who waved his apron like a matador and even a man wielding a lasso.
The 4-month-old cow was eventually captured by workers near Avenue M and East 95 Street.
The brazen bovine’s escape was not in vain — she will now be sent to a farm in Pennsylvania instead of the slaughterhouse.