Do you name your chickens and if so how do you choose their names.

[Rillion]

A friend of mine has a Polish hen called Einstein, because she has a big poof of white feathers on her head. Last week she found out that another friend's Polish rooster is called Albert, for the same reason. So they've decided that it's fate that the two of them be bred together.

 

[ceknight]

Well, we only named our first wave of chickens cause we thought it would be so much fun. Since then, it's too hard to keep up with them all unless they do something that really warrants a name. Here are what we still have:

Araucanas:

Pepper - cause she has the prettiest peppery looking feathers. Nothing to do with the name, but she's dumb as a box of rocks and likes to complain a lot.
Henrietta - cause you just can't have chickens unless at least one is named Henrietta!
Screech - cause she has the funniest looking head that looks more like a screech owl than a chicken.
Scar - a poor little runt of a chicken that when we got her was beat up so bad by the rooster she barely had feathers, yet she's still hanging in there.

Plus we have a Rhode Island Red rooster named Daniel - long story there. He was raised by a surrogate hen and named after the hen's owners boyfriend. (don't ask).

Two curious Black Astralorps I call Heckyl and Jeckyl. A Barred Rock rooster named Wyatt- we were told when we got him as a chick that he was a Wyandott so he was Wyatt the Wyandott.

And the last named chicken is Lucy a White Plymouth Rock- she just looked like a Lucy to me.

All the rest of the newer chickens are just "Hey you!"

 

[aimeeinwv]

We named ours according to color and personality.. or quirks!

The white ones:
Snowflake & Cream Puff

Production reds:
Thelma & Louise (because they run off together all the time)

Gold:
Hopper & Popper
(one hops, the other just rhymed!)

Black:
The colonel (bossy one!)
Turkey (because she had a heck of a time feathering in and looked like a turkey!)

6 Silver laced Wyandottes
The SPAZ-DOTS~! (because they ARE!)

 

[GrannySue]

I called a lovely runner duck Fawn but a few months after I got her she told me her name was Fern. I don't argue with ducks, so Fern it is.
Other names for my chickens abound.
I like Puff and Stuff. Stuff is short for stuffing. Puff is a part Auracana with puffy sideburns.

 

[Bookworm chick]

Yes, I named mine. But, there was only 1 rooster and 5 hens to start. That's not too hard. Now, there are 7 baby chicks. I'll only give names if I decide to keep any of them.
The rooster is "George" (Chicken George in the movie Roots and also Georgie-Porgie in the poem)
Two of the hens are Thelma & Louise
The other three are Berta, Daisy (sisters from Two and a Half Men on TV) and the third is Minnie because she's black like Minnie Mouse (and is a bantam).
The mama to the chicks is Daisy.

 

[edselpdx]

My Daughter wanted to name them after Greek goddesses, we we have Demeter, Persephone, and Artemis.

 

[chicknjane]

I have about half of them named, I don't have a system, I just name them something appropriate for their looks and personality:

Our top Delaware Rooster is named Roaster;
His girls are Hanna and Pixie (BO) and Henrietta and Zelda (RSL)

Our GLW Roo is Sylvester (formerly Sylvia) he was supposed to be a pullet, and his girl, Goldie.

The triplets (RSL) Eloise, Madeline and Cleo (all named after children's book characters);

A Black Australorp named Beauty;

Our 6 Barred Rock/?? mixes, the Roos are Splash and Rocky (his duck and weave is legendary) and the girls Roxanne (all the boys love her), Lucy and Ethel (I Love Lucy, they are BFF), and Jewel (daugher picked name, I don't know why)

We have a bunch of meat bird that are just referred to as "meat"

And 10 5 week old mixed breeds that came with Beauty that have yet to get names. The boys will be meat, the girls will be named. I think one will be called Sasha.

I have to talk to them and call them by name every day or else I'll forget their names.

I do like the idea of naming them after greek gods and goddesses, so the new ones might all fall into that naming trend.

 

[Chickn chick 46]

Roaster

I had to look at that twice

I always thought if I ever get a rooster I would name him Stew

 

[kwgrid]

Okay, here we go:

Silver-laced Wyandottes - almost 5 months old. 1 Rooster and 3 hens. 1 red sex link pullet.

Argent - Greek word for 'silver'. The main (and only) man.

Fat Mama - named for what her children (of which my grandmother was one) affectionately called her as well as to honor her role in a chicken story she was a player in when my grandmother was 3 years old.

Annie Lee - named for my grandmother and in honor of her starring role in the chicken story mentioned above.

Molly - for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". She hurt her upper leg/thigh when just a couple of days old. Didn't think she would make it. She did.

Last but not least: Shamus We believe she is a red sex link. She arrived in the shipment with the Wyandottes as a 'packing peanut' that turned out to be a pullet instead of a cockerel.

As a 2 day old chick she made my daughter think of an Irish prize fighter. Hence, Shamus. Finding out she's female didn't modify her name. I tried to move it toward Shemus but it didn't stick.

 

[chickenbottom]

all mine have names and come to them i spend time with them all so they trust me. and i only have 14 at the moment and hatching eggs on the way for my broody. which all that hatch will get a name. usually i write down a bunch of female names and a bunch of male names. the names for this batch will be named after icons of the 30's 40's 50's 60's just something fun oh and a silkie if one hatches will be named cotton always wanted a silkie named cotton OH and the names are all down in my signature line