World Record Breaking Midlands Hen 'Sally' Passes Away

She rose to global fame in 2019.

Sally, the world record breaking midlands hen, has died.

She passed away yesterday at the age of five.

Sally rose to fame after hatching two clutches in the space of 55 days back in 2019 - a world recording breaking achievement.

Her owner, Banagher farmer John Dolan, has been thanking those who passed on their sympathies.

Another of John's famous hen's, Marmalade, who died in 2019, was a three-time world champion. She had an average of five clutches of chicks a year and has hatched 181 live chicks.

John has been chatting to Midlands 103's Kamron Clarke about the famous hatchers:

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