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
