Julius and Big
Daddy, the roosters who chose each other as companions,
have found a permanent home on a farm in Alabama, reports
foster mom Brenda Lee in Los Angeles. The roosters
came to L.A.'s A Dog's Life Rescue organization last
year as a couple, and continued to eschew "normative
chicken social conventions," wrote Lee's partner,
Jayna.
Big Daddy, who is
much larger, "is Julius's protector, and at night he
roosts over Julius like a mama hen sitting on a brood of
chicks," Jayna wrote.
The women agreed
to foster the fowl until a place could be found with
rooster-friendly zoning codes. It took eight months, Lee
said.
Their suburban
San Fernando Valley neighborhood technically forbids
roosters for noise-abatement reasons ("The rescue group did
some talking," Lee says), as does New York City, where
the roosters made quite a splash on gay blogs.
"We only got two
calls. And one person wanted to split them up, which
was out of the question," Lee said.
But this week the
foster moms fielded a call from an Alabama farmer, and
Julius and Big Daddy were flown Thursday to their new home.
(Barbara Wilcox, The Advocate)