Chicken Names- whats your chickens name?

[tommy williams]

However I do understand that some people refer to chickens as pets I do not really understand this chickens are live stock just as any other farm animal they have there purpose in life and when its done its done. I tell my fiance all the time do not name the livestock unless it has something to do with a food name instead what does she do dhe names my blk cpr marans BANJO... Now tell me whens the last time any one ate a GOD FORSAKEN BANJO!!!!

 

[fosterson]

However I do understand that some people refer to chickens as pets I do not really understand this chickens are live stock just as any other farm animal they have there purpose in life and when its done its done. I tell my fiance all the time do not name the livestock unless it has something to do with a food name instead what does she do dhe names my blk cpr marans BANJO... Now tell me whens the last time any one ate a GOD FORSAKEN BANJO!!!!

Welcome to BYC. Guess you could say different strokes for different folks. Personally, mine usually wind up with names because it's easier to refer to 'Henny' than it is to say 'Get the bigger of the two RIR hens, no not that one, the other one'. Mine recycle names a lot and usually just get called by their ankle band color, IE "Red, Blue, White". Others see it differently.

 

[Peneliva]

I'm getting two new Barred Rocks from a BYC member.

I was thinking Gertrude and Winifred. AKA. Gertie and Winnie.. lol.

I have a Sophia, Rosemarie, and Lisette.

 

[MEMama3]

Our newest addition just got her name. It's Abbie Gale. Her mama's name is Dorothy Zbornchick.

 

[Ariana Martinez]

Roo- barred Rock rooster
Rocky-Rhode Island red rooster
Robyn- Rhode Island Red rooster
Snowflake- little white hen
Nugget- tiny brown and white hen
Woody- unknown, his feathers are silky and are all different colors with a big orange chest

 

[autumnhearth]

I love old fashioned names for farm animals! One day I'd like to have ewes and name them Hazel, Mable and Maude and perhaps a wether named Quincy. They were my great-grandfather's siblings names.

 

[autumnhearth]

Fantine, Cosette and Eponine are all on my list. I'm debating giving my future Salmon Faverolle a French name, but she will be the only one with a Dorking, Orpington, RIR and EE. May give them all Welsh names but the Dorking is up to the husband and the EE to my son.

 

[autumnhearth]

We will not be getting our first 5-6 chicks until late April but I'm already brainstorming. Originally I had the idea of giving them hobbit names, which for the females are mostly flower names. Favorites are Lobelia, Belladonna, Primula, Pansy, Rosie, Daisy, Angelica, Asphodel, Goldilocks, etc. and if we had a rooster: Bullroarer. However, I'm putting that theme on the back burner, maybe for when we have a hobbit hole coop and more land. I have a friend that like several folks on here had a Harry Potter themed flock: Lily, Myrtle, Sibyll, Rowena, Helga, Buckbeak etc.

Right now leaning toward Arthurian names as we are doing a Merlin marathon on Netflix, though I'm more inspired by Mists of Avalon: Morgause, Morgaine, Igraine, Viviane, Niniane, Nimue, Guinevere, Isolde, Olwen etc. However my husband and son will be naming one hen each (a Dorking for the husband, an EE for the boy and I will have a Buff Orp, RIR, Salmon Faverolle and maybe a Black Copper Maran), so that may to have to be shelved for later when I have my own flock.

Husband came up with a theme for a trio of hens that we will not be using but is cute: Penny, Bernadette and Amy Farrah Fowler (Big Bang Theory!). Will probably just end up gathering round the brooder, spending time with the chicks, thinking of names then, but I am so excited now.

 

[sunflour]

We will not be getting our first 5-6 chicks until late April but I'm already brainstorming.

I personally waitedt til they lost baby fluff and start to feather and then you will start to see personalities.


I have 3 barred rocks and 3 buff orps we got last march at 3 days old and had several great names picked out. But decided not to name them early - fear of losses, fear of roosters may have had to give away. The only one named during early weeks was BIG BUFF - cause she was twice as large as the other chicks. When they were 6-8 weeks old, I let each pick their own name!

BR - Road Runner carried her tail quite high, was very fast and smart and actually said "beep - beep" when we called her RR.
BR - Dottie - the front of her legs dark markings were very evenly spaced dots.
BR - Tweedie - feather hues and pattern reminded me of a Tweed jacket.
BO- Penney "the pincher" - you guessed it, she pinches me with her beak when I feed her from my hand, always did from early on and still does.
BO - Big Buff - continued to be much larger than the others until about 8 months when others caught up - she was the last to start laying but even from first egg has laid all XL's.
BO- Lillie - for little buff, growing up was always the smallest , but is the most friendly, and most curious of all.

 

[chickengenius]

My Buff Orpington's names are Miles (the rooster), Biggster, Tiny, Blacky, Tiger, Furball, and Candy Corn. Biggzy another one of my chickens died from sour crop recently.