CHICKEN / FOWL NAMES! To Name or Not to Name? Do You Name Yours? W/ Sally Sunshine & BantyChooks

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: interesting!!! do any of them have leg tags?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: oh !! Alita!! how did you hear that one?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: sweet Dax she looks ravenish!!

 

[BantyChooks]

oh !! Alita!! how did you hear that one?

It means small and winged, got it off a baby name list somewhere- I forget the google search that I used.

Alita was Jace's chick from my 1st hatch. I gave her to a friend, but sadly, she died about a month ago.

She was adorable though!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Enya and Abi

These two girls are some of my favourite flock members- incredible colouring, and sweet personalities.
Now Abi is a fairly normal chicken, and is sane and sensible, as far as chickens go. She tolerates handling and mooches treats off anyone carrying anything edible.

Now Enya on the other hand.....

Abi will stand by your feet if you have treats, waiting for them to be dropped. Enya jumps on your back and demands to have them RIGHT NOW.
Abi will not care much if she gets picked up, but will scoot away when put down. Enya screams bloody murder, and then settles and either sits on your arm or follows you around for the next while.
Abi is of medium weight, and sit around doing calm chicken-y things. Enya is a skinny minnie and randomly launches into full flight across the run, and then screeches to a stop inches from the fence. (Sunshine does this too)

Enya in the back> ? ifs so she looks regal and I dont believe this story you tell!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

And, as always; here's my sweet Jace. As any of my BYC friends know, I can't stop talking about this sweet gal!

I got her as a chick from a local feed store. I thought for sure she was a rooster due to her spunky behaviour and her inclination to be the first to do everything, hence they boyish name.

She has several nicknames -Jacey, JaceyBug, Cutie, Little girlie, Stinker- and she responds to most of them.

She went broody at 11 months old, and got a 5/6 hatch. She is 1 1/2 years old now, and has gone broody 3 MORE times after that.

However, she's an awesome momma (once attacking a dog that was perceived as a threat to her brood- and she's only 1 lb!!) so she gets to raise mor babies next summer.

One of her quirks is her distaste for cold. It can be 90° and she's happy as a clam, (while the other chickens sit in the shade panting) but let it fall below 50° and she stares at me accusingly, as if to ask why I don't turn the temp up.

In the winter, she will stare at me every morning until I pick her up, tuck her in my coat, and warm her feets up.

Sometimes she'll sit come jump on my lap and just chill for a bit. Other times she won't even look at me unless I'm holding treats- She has cattitude to the max!!

Oh, and she's my only bird that likes popsicles.

This is fun, but Banti your name is spelled wrong in the title

ughhh
ya know I cant spell worth a pickled pepper!!! Thanks

 

[DwayneNLiz]

ya know I cant spell worth a pickled pepper!!! Thanks

lol i know

 

[BantyChooks]

Enya in the back> ? ifs so she looks regal and I dont believe this story you tell!!

Correct.
Yeh, she was posing, bit she's a real trip in actuality..... Don't let her majestic look fool ya!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I've name all of my birds and have stories about all of them. Next year I'm going to get a meatbird and name it Thanksgiving. The names in red are birds we no longer have.

Hens: Nighthawk, Ninja, Zoe, Psyc, Acorn, Thyme, Rosemary, Sage, Chives, Ginger, Persephone, Daisy, Blue, Tilda, Ingrid, Rhododendron,Ursa, Ginny, Subku, Kasaiuki, Shae, Maplesugar, Fae, Echo, Cassandra (Cassie), Betty, Trixie, Bubbles, Kara, Alex, Susan (Suzi), Dewdrop (Dewy), Amy, Megan, Peep, Scaredy Cat, Eagle, Popcorn, Butter, Buffpuff, Buffbuff, Lily, Angle, Silena, Dimond, Baby Tooth, Winter, X (Hopple), Y, Creamsicle, Thing 1, Thing 2, Seaspray, Ripple ,Kitty, Gertrude, Snow, Aspara, Lumina, Muninn, Rey, Marvel, Sakerra

Roosters: Pluto, Jo, Starbright, Sylvester, Starhawk, Huginn, Anzotic, Cormac, Whisper, Mr. Comb, Padfoot, Moony, Prongs, Gandalf, Bracken, Wander, Kai, Jupiter, Neptune, Janus, Aquilon, Honey (Cupid), Mars,Mercury, Aeolus,Midas,Pierre, Goldie, Astro

Ducks: Eclipse, Kiwi, Basil, Sam, William, Beniduct

Guineas: Halo, Rau, Shadowthorn, Lunar, Sola, Carrots

X & Y were leghorns we couldn't tell apart, until one of then injured her leg, so she got nicknamed Hopple.
Thing 1 & Thing 2 were Bantam Cochins we couldn't tell apart.
Pluto & Persephone are our Spanish pair.
Kara & Alex were named after because they're d'Anvers.
Huginn & Muninn were named after Odin's ravens. They're Sumatras.
Padfoot, Moony & Prongs are from Harry Potter.
Neptune, bantam splash cochin, was originally named Amphitrite, but ended up being a boy so we renamed him. We'd had Jupiter, LF Australorp cross, for some time, by the time we ended up with another Roo (Neptune), and Jupiter didn't really have a name. We called him Big Bird & Rooster, but after we renamed Neptune we realized that Jupiter couldn't be upstaged by Neptune.
Kiwi kind of looked like a kiwi fruit as a duckling.
Halo had Angle wing as a chick, but grew out of it.
Gandalf is a Grey Japanese, so be became Gandalf the Grey.
When Mr. Comb first hatched out he had a large comb for a newly hatched chick.
Many of our other birds were named by looking through a Gurney's catalog.

Jupiter

Kiwi

Gandalf

Huginn, currently tailess curtesy of Padfoot, Moony & Prongs

OMG are you crazy chicken lady LOL!! Love your names!!! they are fantastic!!!! more pics morepics

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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