Cream Legbars

[normanack]

Oh no, another uptick in the count for not naming.

Is it okay if you use names unconventionally?
I.e., all the chickens are named Jack.
Or the first bird you see is Alice, the second Bob, the third Carl . . . the name is not permanently attached to a specific bird, but to the birds in the order you see them, which changes.

 

[ChicKat]

so my cream legbar cross with a RIW is getting a crest < I call this Cross A CreamSteen btw. I still think I'm on to something. This one is by all accounts acting like a male. Its pure white.I have two more of these growing out that are hatched by my CL. The one is pure white and had slow wing feather growth and the other one had fast wing feather growth and has become tinted. some color is all over her. they both had a small head spot on the back between the head and neck . but the one with color had a yellow topped head and the other all white one had a white topped head. I really do think I have a new sex link. Time will tell. The pic of the two is hard to see but you can see the one is getting that amber link color and the other is all white.



here is the crested one with his Barred Cochin broody momma

A friend of mine just had a broody hatch out "CreamSteen" chicks. I think of the remainders there are three whites and two chamois with white crests. When they were first hatched, I thought there would only be two females. CL rooster over RIW hen -- but the hen is a hatchery bird, although my friend was told she was RI white, and she looks like in body type etc...lays brown egg, she doesn't have a rose comb. RIW is rose combed bird right?

They are pretty chicks, I agree.

 

[jesirose]

We only name our birds now AFTER they've survived something. Our rooster Rocky has survived two predator attacks. Blackie and Speedy (my husband named them) are our oldest two birds which didn't have names until this year when they survived the attack. We also have a rooster we haven't named yet that survived the same attack. Until they've proven worthy, they don't get a name.

 

[normanack]

We only name our birds now AFTER they've survived something. Our rooster Rocky has survived two predator attacks. Blackie and Speedy (my husband named them) are our oldest two birds which didn't have names until this year when they survived the attack. We also have a rooster we haven't named yet that survived the same attack. Until they've proven worthy, they don't get a name.

I like that!
We had the opposite situation last year. We had a really sick chick that we didn't think would survive, so we named him Mort. He lived, but is stuck with the name. (Yes, we are the kind of people your mother warned you about.)

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I like that!
We had the opposite situation last year. We had a really sick chick that we didn't think would survive, so we named him Mort. He lived, but is stuck with the name. (Yes, we are the kind of people your mother warned you about.)

 

[ChicKat]

We only name our birds now AFTER they've survived something. Our rooster Rocky has survived two predator attacks. Blackie and Speedy (my husband named them) are our oldest two birds which didn't have names until this year when they survived the attack. We also have a rooster we haven't named yet that survived the same attack. Until they've proven worthy, they don't get a name.

Okay-- but then how do you address your chickens when you talk to them?? You do talk to them right?

 

[heirloomorps]

Okay-- but then how do you address your chickens when you talk to them?? You do talk to them right?

Our chickens are all called Sweetie. Even the roos.

 

[jesirose]

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I like that!
We had the opposite situation last year. We had a really sick chick that we didn't think would survive, so we named him Mort. He lived, but is stuck with the name. (Yes, we are the kind of people your mother warned you about.)

Speedy is named speedy because she had a limp and can't fly anymore, after the attack.

 

[jesirose]

Okay-- but then how do you address your chickens when you talk to them?? You do talk to them right?

We call them "chickie chickie" in the high pitched adorable way my 20 month old son says it.

 

[ChicKat]

I was pulling y'alls legs -- you can call them anything as long as you don't call them late for meal worms.