HOW'D YA GET THAT NAME ?

[Onna]

HOW'D YA GET THAT NAME
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For years now I have wondered how people come up with the names they give to there Chickens. So here is a place you can tell others how your chicken got it's name.
I live on a four acre small horse ranch, been here all of 10 years now and have always been a country gal. When I was young I had chickens for my 4H club and once for FFA. I raised white leghorns and won 3rd place with my hens. That was many years ago, now I have decided to have some chickens around the barn, free range style. So for Easter my husband bought me some peeps, not the sugar kind. We have 10 peeps and choose to have a variety of breeds.
Now comes the hard part, what to name them. Well there is always that first look, the obvious name. Cotton, Lacy, you guessed it Silky's, we have three and all white. Hen or rooster we don't really know, still one to name. So with some thought and after a few weeks we named it Marie after an aunts name my husband and I both had. Now I have been told that you don't name things until after that person is gone, so I think I'm safe. So the aunt naming went on to include Elsie the Barbed Rock.
I have two Road Island Reds named, Henny Penny from the memoirs of a child's story.
Peggy was named after my husbands Mother. Pete is a Bantam Rooster "we think" who was named after asking friends on the Internet to lend a naming hand.
Next comes Easter, gifted at Easter so there must be one named Easter. His breed is unknown to us and will be a very big I believe rooster. Poor thing was chosen from what is called the Pan Fried Bin. Mary is a white leghorn hen, named after my Mom. A little red bantam named yes you guessed it, Little Red.
So that's how my Peeps came to have there names. I would enjoy hearing, How'd ya get that Name for your chickens, as names reflect were we come from, have been, and what we see.
I am enjoying my new charges and look forward to the years to come. Onna

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[HouseCat]

My bantie Red Pyle OEG Roosters' name is Tangle because he loves to fight with me. If there was a cockfighting circuit that pitted Roosters against shoes & boots, he would be reign Supreme!

 

[fuzziecreatures]

We started our chicken keeping April 2011. We got a hen and her 5 chicks from my father in law, named her #1. A week later came #2 and her chick. We named the 2 pullets we kept from #1, Nutmeg and Cinnamon. Nutmeg is a mottled color and Cinnamon is buff colored with pattern on the feathers. We then got free roosters from someone nearby, Moose (he was HUGE and mean, Ameraucana), Charlie "Sheen" (his black feathers had a green sheen to them, Easter Egger-mean) and Wattles (you guessed it, HUGE wattles-great roo!). A few weeks later, the same person was selling some of her pullets and emailed me. Myself and the kids picked out 3 pullets, Pilgrim (Barred Plymoth Rock), Pidg (Blue something or other), Charleene (black Easter Egger).
We recently got ALOT of chicks from Meyer Hatchery in March. We have named a few of them that we know (or very likely) are pullets.
Truffles, Ladyhawke, Seahawk, Dove, and Hawke are the named EE so far. There are 3 who don't have a name yet plus 2 Salmon Favs that are pullets. We watch for their personalities to come out and their colors or breeds tie into the names.

 

[flgardengirl]

I have a hen that was born upside down in the egg and had some sort or neurological problem. She sways her head back and forth like she is jamming to a good rhythm lol. She has always done this. She is totally normal besides that and eats drinks, lays eggs and even went broody although I didn't let her hatch any of her own eggs. It seems to serve her well with predators and other hens that don't like her. Once when she was a chick a big tomcat ran up to her and she swayed her head around like a snake and the cat just got a funny look on his face and ran away lol.
Her name is Tipsy She does look a little tiiippppssssyyy when she walks around swaying her neck and head back and forth lol.

 

[En Plein Air Farms]

I started out with 10 black sexlinks because that is what my FIL said were good. And they were massively good egg layers, but I never could tell anyone of them apart so they were all 'little girl'.

This spring I went and picked out my own batch
I'm still working out the names...it isn't as easy as one might think is it?
2 barred rocks, one with lots of charcoal, she is Smudge
the other with good mix of black and white, she is Pepper
2 buff orphingtons, so far Butter Butter, Better Butter, Butter Butter Twins...hopeless
and I picked 3 banty, not knowing what 'straight run' meant so am worrying myself sick they might all be roosters, I sure hope not.
The tiniest one is also the most subdued coloring, I'm wondering if some kind of partridge, has been L O L A Lola from the song, Peanut, peewee...
Feather footed all white, Angel
Feather footed speckeled brown, Brown Sugar or sometimes Peanut Butter.

Next week they could all be something else

 

[Onna]

I can't stop LOL....... YOUR story is so Funny. Thank you so much for sharing with myself and others. P.S. I am still LOL LOL

 

[Onna]

Thanks for sharing your story. Your rooster is very gorges.