I loved our two sweet natured Silver Laced Wyandottes, I got them from a breeder and she begged me to keep them together, as they were sisters. Of course, I did, and both were enchanting as they would 'talk" to each other, and to us, in their distinctive way, "baaaaawwwkkk???". Always sounded like they were asking a question!
However, one of them, " Sally", went broody when she was still a pullet, and hatched one chick, which she abandoned upon hatch. She's the only hen I have ever had that did that. She also did not live long. Frigg, our other one, broke my heart when she got sick a couple of years later and I could not save her. She never went broody at all. Sally's chick, Lil Orphan Annie, is a mixed breed, she has survived well so far and has all of the nice Wyandotte qualities; nice temperament. Of all three though, none seemed to lay as well as I expected. I would like to get more, but am a little hesitant, because, as I said, they did not seem to be very resistant to illness, although they were quite tolerant to cold.