Do all your chickens have names?

[DoctorGoose]

Yup; all of mine have names (the legbands do wonders on telling them apart)

Caesar
Augusta
Juno
Jupiter
(all BRs)

Calligula
Tiberius
(Silkies)

Fancy
Reba
Wynonna
Dolly
Oppugno
Pharaoh
(Wyandottes)

Chicks (not here yet, already named! :-D)
Henrietta
Attilla the Hen (RIR, both going to Grandma's)
Minerva--BO
Amellius--Aracuna
Tarquinius --marans

Deceased Silkies:
Octavian
Titus
Claudius
and.....oh crap; I can't remember! Another Caesar name.

 

[Bec]

Mine all have names and I can tell them all apart...took a lot of close studying. But they are:

Tasha
Emily
Cinderella
Lola All Buff Orpingtons
Pearl
Patty
Henrietta

and my roo Captain Jack Sparrow "Jack"

 

[ella]

All the chickens I have ever had have names and I can easily tell them apart by look, voice and movement. They are all individuals.

When people ask 'don't they all look the same?' I just say if you had a Black Lab how often would you go to a dog park and take home the wrong Black Lab? They are all the same color and approximate size right?

Just takes a little observation to tell them apart.

RIR: SLW: Barred Rock:
Lucy Alva Matilda
Penny Mia Tinkerbell
Baby Wyn Marie
Boba Estelle Dott
Russa Monk Penelope
Tess

Golden Comet: Black Giant:
Ella Athena
Angel Charla
Agatha Rook
Agnes Raven
Eve Kadija


The Boys: The mixed breed girls:
Jack Nekoda
Val Nora
Stan Jango
Harry Circe
Zeus Guster
Apollo Cammembert
Oliver
Oscar
Leif
Pi
Pumpkin
Montery Jack
Shawn

 

[GoodEgg]

I expect ours will all have names before my dd is finished.

She's working on names for all of them as they distinguish themselves. If it were up to me, I'd probably end up naming just a few of them, and then calling the breeds by a name because so many are hard to tell apart from others of their breed unless you look closely.

Rosie, the black rosecomb ... she had to have a name because she always jumps up on me. (Funny, she was skittish as a young chick and hated being picked up.)

And J.B. the Japanese Bantam, our alpha roo will be getting a new name when we can find a good one. He might be Samurai-chan cuz he's a vigilant little warrior, but tiny and cute, so we'll call him Sai-chan. It will probably stick.

My daughter is working on naming all the rest. The other roos are Carlos (from the romeo-meerkat on animal planet) and Charlie.

One of the red sex-links is Chocobo. (She likes Final Fantasy.) Another is Penny.
One of the Barred Rocks is Rozzy.
One of the Wyandottes is FluffButt (I named that one.)
An Australorp is Suzie-Q.
The Hamburg is Roady (after the RoadRunner).
I call all my RIR's "Little Red" because they are always getting into spots and having to be picked up, and I call them something while I "rescue" them, but I'm sure she'll give them all individual names.

She probably has a few more named that I don't know about. She'll get to them all eventually; not sure if I'll ever remember them all! I have to get the leg bands to stay on first.

When (if) I get the meat birds I'm hoping for next year, we're not going to do anything to distinguish one from another, and I'm not going to let her name them. I might not even let her feed them, or I'll have either a tearful daughter or dozens of fat old meat chickens growing old and eating me out of house and home.

But as for the laying birds, I'm enjoying watching them go about their busy little chicken lives, and I do like having names to refer to them. It makes it easier, and just sounds better than "that big black sex-link with the most brown on her chest."

trish

 

[ozark hen]

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I completely agree. Out of 32 I have all but 6 named as they look so much alike. Waiting for some oddity to come out in them that I can tell them apart from the others. Right now five of the buff orps are called Nugget. LOL Two dominiques need to be named and four chicks...might not be named..those not named will be freezer-bound.
Ducks just starting to get their names. Guineas will remain nameless and out of the freezer.

 

[nccatnip]

The roo's are named Frank and Murray. The almost roo (immature male- possibly hermorphodite) is Peter Pan. The hens are "the girls or ladies". When referring to the banty hens they are the "Little girls". The heavy breed hens are the "Big girls". Collectively the flock is called "The Kids".

 

[Rebeccahorse]

I have only one with a name because she is the only one of that breed that I have. She is named Miss Rhoad Island
because she is a RIR.

 

[DuckLady]

Of COURSE they have names!

Silver-laced Wyandotte
Lacie

Easter Eggers
Goldie
Sillie
Gladys
Lillian

Turken
Prettie
Precious
Punkin

Rhode Island Red
Glenda

Australorp
Bette Davis Eyes

Buff Brahma
Buffy

Silkie
Peanut

AmerauSpitzTurken
Speckle-Roo

Red Sex Link
Nikki

Barred Rock
Judy

Columbian Wyandotte
Snowflake

Welsummer
Firebird

Leghorn
Helen

White crested Black Polish
Moppy

Buff Orpington
Claire

Ducks

Wilbur
Darkie
Chuck
Sprocket
Lady
Lassie
Annie
Miss Matilda Pekin Duck
Scooter
Minerva
Gumby
Freckles
Mobert
Fudgie
Magoo
Marlys
Mister Debby

Geese

Broose the Goose
Irma La Goose
Bella La Goosie

 

[rosyposyosy]

i only have 3 so...

banty black cochin - fajita - although when my brother visits he calls her disco chicken because her feet look like bell bottoms...

EE - Gordita - it matched....

Cuckoo Maran - Lenore - to replace my rooster that looked like a raven

 

[Rosalind]

Yes, but I can't tell the Buttercup hens apart. So while they are technically named Saffron, Sweetie and Sarah, I don't really know which is which at any given time.

Buttercup roos: Mordred has more white on his ears and a nicer cup-shaped comb, Arthur has redder ears and a floppy comb.

Cochin roos: Hugo is biggest, Julius Caesar has more dark feathers, Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) is smallest and doesn't have as big a comb.

Cochin hens: Daria is bigger and has sort of a chubby red face, Elizabeth is smaller and dainty.

Easter Eggers: Morgaine is nearly solid black, Morgause is blue with red streaks, Guinevere is a lovely silver, Ygrainne is a beautiful wheaten and a sweetheart, and Vivianne is kind of a mutt--yellow, brown, grey multi-colored.