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

[wings]

I have two younger sisters, so they always have ideas for names!

Right now we have Friday, Oddball, Blackie (

), Apple, and Ginger Pye.

We used to have Camino, Little Red (RIP

), Blondie, Stayin' Alive (who we ate:

), White Wing, and Pretzel.

Our names for the next brood are Beatrix, E.B. (after the writer), Gwendolyn, Daisy, Omlette, and Parmesean. (sp?)

 

[rigagirl]

I only have named one rooster and that was after we ate him. I picked the name because he thought he was tough but he was an ol softy so i called him rooster cogburn

 

[Momma_Cluck]

We name some, but not others...

Those WE raised by hand we named
(All the "Sisters" named due to breed, attitude or color):

Red & Ruby (Red Production)
Amber & Buffy (Buff Rock)
Onyx & Ebony (Australorps)
Popcorn & Taffy (silver Laced Wyandottes)
Princess & Oreo (Turkens)
Pearl & Noodles (California Whites)
Valkrie, Robin & Hedwig the Roo (Aracaunas)
Rip, Ronnie & Scooter (Bantam OE's)
Puff Daddy & Fifi (white Silkies)
Shadow, Raven & Elvis (Black Silkies)
Dexter & Lacey (Golden Laced Sebrights)
Kashi (Mille Fluer Duccle)
Nibbles (Showgirl)
Twitters (mixed Mille Fluer/OE)...

We did NOT name our 8 Rock hens, as they were "pullets" when we got them, and not hand-raised... the 2 Rooo's that came with them we did name (Rocky the Partidge Rock and Bubbah the Barred Rock) But they were sent to new homes.

We have 3 new Silkie-mix babies-- still working on names-- but will not name them till we see what they'll look like!

 

[mbrown]

Napoleon- Bantam RIR rooster

Big Red- RIR rooster

Merlin- Americana rooster (has a gray beard)

Barred Rock Obama- Barred Rock rooster

Shizzle- Silkie Frizzle

Mo' Shizzle- another Silkie Frizzle

 

[bigzio]

I always give my birds time to decide their name. We are great at coming up with their appropriate names.

The disposittion of the bird determines it's name, some are quite appropiate.

It really makes having a flock alot of fun, plus it's good management on our part knowing, and noticing the difference between flock members, the more members, the more attention needed to keep names straight....

bigzio

 

[Lucky Ducky]

Ours are named. We have:
Peter the Duck - crested blue swedish ( my son had just got an audio book about Peter Rabbit, he even changed his own name to Peter Rabbit for a couple of weeks, he was 4)
Wafa- female blue swedish, don't ask because my son made it up
Rose- buff duck hen, My oldest daughter's duck and her middle name
Talula- fawn & white indian runner, my baby girl's duck named a water name
Henny Penny & Bushel Britches- Bantam barred cochin hens
Quail- silver seabright hen
Princess Pecan- silver seabright hen
Princess- bantam splash cochin
Orange- bantam buff cochin
Long Legs- mixed breed hen
Beautiful Boy- bantam partridge cochin roo
Bandit- OEGB roo
Diamond- red pyle oegb hen
Ruby- oegb hen
Opal- oegb hen
Bloody- bantam black frizzle roo, named because when introduced to the other roos he got into a fight with one named Friendly and ended up with a bloody comb, so my son named him Bloody
Black Pearl- bantam black frizzle hen

My kiddos did all of the naming and they will have to get busy we've got about 75 more on the way.

 

[chixrus]

let's see, there's:
Pumpkin (RIP)
Madam Fuzz (RIP)
Missy
Prince Charming
Fluffy Chicken Batter (RIP)
Lamb Chop (RIP)
Purple (who isn't purple)
Whitey (who is black RIP)
Brown Chicken (RIP)
Brown Chicken II
Potato (RIP)
Pototo (RIP)
Devil (RIP)
Speckle (RIP)
Pink
Peanut
Princess
Popcorn
Acorn
Butternut
Candy Corn
KFC
Martha
Elva
Nausada
Sapphira
Hermione
Parvati
Lavender (RIP)
Bellatrix
Andromeda
Narcissa
Moo
Little Owl
Puffkin
Fuzzbucket
Amidala
Padme

and possibly more

 

[SheeReno]

We raise ours as pets, so we name them all. Plus, we only have a handful.

Buck Sagebrush (deceased)
H.W. Bawkbagawk (deceased)
Special Agent Fitzhugh
Lady Ewok
Sweet Beatrice Russell

 

[Bedste]

My 13 grandchildren name all of them as soon as they hatch or the first time they meet them, so I have a Tundra and a Shrek, James and Juliet, Velvet and Claire, so far no Nemo..... LOL

 

[Capone]

i dont name my chicks ever since i ate my jumbo cornish x rock called bob. psst crowing in this neiborhood will get us shut down