when i started it was all flower/ plant names...dahlia, daisy,
etc, then i branched out...one is named Dumpling another Dixie after my Aunt. i have Summer and Spring, Olive is an olive egger, gold sexlinks are Scarlet and Grace, i have a lily, Ginger, pickles is a frizzle bantam...
one roo i had we named TRACTOR. when he became too much for our neighbors...we took him to a feed store to find a home. i think the name had a lot to do with it but he was gone almost immediately ! he was a bantam so it was not for food! i had also posted on craigs list and had like 10...
i started off with flowers/herbs/plant names....i have a Ginger(brabanter) Lily(Spitzhauben)Clemantine(brabanter, gotten by a bobcat midday!)Bluebell(self blue silkie)Iris(russian orloff)I have a few NON plant names, CRICKET (D'anver) Dumpling(cream leg bar) Dasher, Dancer, tinker bell (Ban...
my latest names...2017
Lexington/banty EE
Liberty/buff orp
Blaze/ buff silkie
Pickles/frizzle bantam cochin
Boots/porcelin D'uccle
America/white ameraucana with blue beard
Arabella/white crested blue polish
Summer & Spring/silver penciled bantam wyandottes (the loves of my life! OMG they are so...
that was a cute story...we have a joke in our neighborhood about free dogs and cats...people would give them away in front of safeway market...and they were NEVER free...always some reason why the animal wound up costing one of us a BUNCH!
Bixi Button???? cant get much cuter than that i have to say! Naming is half the fun....I just got a gold laced bantam wyandotte who is so freakin sweet...name suggestions???? she is about 9 mos i think...impulse buy at the poultry show in modesto last week.
Those are fabulous names! love that they have middle names...my dog does, you know in case she is bad i can scold her with both names! My bantam EE laid her first egg today! Finally!
Thanks! it is a colorful flock for sure but truthfully.....its the basic chickens i like the most...buff orp, welsummer (even tho not as friendly). i want a buckeye this year...When i get older and have a smaller flock i would DEF keep a bantam cochin which might be one of my all time favs. love...
I started out with plant/flower names but branched out for various reasons....
Jezebel/polish
ginger/gold brabanter
klara and kruella /silver spitzhaubens
blossom/silver laced banty cochin
Dumpling/cream legbar
dasher and dancer/bantam cochins got around the holidays one year
cricket/black...