Some of the older members here will remember my 2 hybrids Rosie and Mary. We thought Rosie was a tiny Amberlink cockerel because she grew such a huge comb the same time as the 2 cockerals we had in our very first flock of amberlinks in September 2007. She was ostracized by the rest of the flock because she was tiny and different.
She never crowed and never laid an egg. So she was in a little ark all on her own until one of our slightly younger Goldlines went broody, and Brian kept chucking her out of the big coop, and we called her scary Mary, because whenever you turned around, she was there!. Anyway Mary went to live with Rosie and they spent their time roaming our garden together. then as we needed the ark, I re-homed them both to a lady in Holbeach, who although she had hens that came and went, still kept rosie and mary together.
I had a message from her this afternoon to say that both Rosie and Mary have now gone to that big chicken coop in the sky. Mary went first, followed only a week later by Rosie, so they wanted to stay together obviously!!
