How did you come up with your screen name?

[gardener]

I am a hobby gardener and a Master Gardener. Yet I do something completely different for a living.

 

[line-rat]

line-rat . i work for a japanese auto plant. the managers(american) call us a bunch of line rats. it is not ment to be nice.so i went out and bought a baseball hat and had the line rat printed on it. they came out of the office while we were working to see my hat. no one said anything to me they just walked by looking at my hat. i like to be in their face.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I think this has been one of the very best threads we've posted on this board!! Sometimes people post on other threads and I'll look back on this one to see what their screen-name bio says and that seems to put them in better context. This was a great idea and a really entertaining thread --hope all the new folks keep adding their stories too.

Darlene

 

[paganfish]

Quote:
good one!

 

[eggydoom]

When I finally gave in to peer pressure (that's my story!) and got some hens for eggs this past spring, I went all out and bought 25 from McMurray (who sent me 27). I can only legally have 10 in the city, so some went to a gentleman in a neighboring county (he took my babies to coyote-infested territory, I felt really guilty) and a few went to a lady in a neighboring city. I realize the numbers of departing hens are vague, at best, luckily for me hens move around pretty quickly.

So, eventually my totally legal flock of 10 hens started laying and I had been tossing around silly "farm" names for months. (Just so you real farmer types know, I do realize that I am not a farmer!) We got two blue eggs one day, then a brown egg, then a few more eggs, then suddenly six eggs. Then we were getting eggs from all the hens. Neighbors brought me egg cartons they just "happened" to be saving (I wonder why?), and I ordered egg cartons to use.

We were awash in eggs (there's just the two of us) and one morning I said something to the effect that we were doomed to drown in eggs. Thus "Eggy Doom Micro-farm" was born. Knowing that we have more hens than we need for eggs and actually seeing all those eggs were two different things. I still love my girls.

Our extra eggs go to family and neighbors, so it's worked out fine. I keep telling myself that next time I'd just get a few hens, but there are so many breeds! I want 'em all.

I have Easter Eggers, Barred Rocks (Sophronia is the friendliest and escapingest bird ever), Black Giants, Brahmas, Cochins (Ermengarde would eat a cat if they didn't see her coming and escape, I thought Cochins were friendly?), and Faverolles. One Faverolle (Jerusha) was destined to be sent away because as a chick she kept getting an eye infection. On the day the gentleman came, she hid herself away and booted another (prettier) Faverolle out of the coop. Faverolles look sweet, but ours growl and will cheerfully take our hand off if we have meat scraps on us.

 

[Redfeathers]

I have Irish Setter show dogs, The long silky coat on their legs, front and body is called feathering, since they are red it just seemed like a good name, so Redfeathers it is...plus some day I may get a few RIR chickens.

 

[Montanna]

Hi,
I used Montanna, because I seen someone else using my name "Skeeter". I am originally from Montana and now I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I usually use MontannaYooper, but decided to just use Montanna. Wish I had been more creative.

Great thread by the way!

Skeeter AKA Montanna

 

[Standard Hen]

Any groups I have belonged to I always have a horse breed name,,,I figured this was a chicken board, I love and have mostly Standard size chickens and I am getting to be an old hen so Standard Hen it was.

 

[Jemjoop]

Cool thread!

Real name Jen but when I met my husband he called me Jem instead.

And in 1997, AOL chose Joop117 and hubby and I used to email love letters (date behavior-none since) so he mashed them together years ago and voila Jemjoop.

And I'm with the other people who can't juggle a bunch of diff screen names and still remember them all.

Now of course I wish I'd thought of something very clever and chickeny like FIREchicken and FlyingMonkeyPoop. But there you are...

 

[ChickenBreath]

Because nobody thinks "Randy" is a neat screen name, except maybe my wife, Montana, but then you'd have to ask her.