I Gotta ask How did you ladies and gents decide on your chickens names

[warcard]

Lets see:
Rooster - Carlos (after Carlos Mencia on Comedy Central, my husband said his crow sounded like the Dee, Da, Dee skit)

Our first RIR hen - HENrietta

Our Blue Slate Tom - Thumper (he is gray and I didn't know turkeys made a thumping noise when they are displaying)

My husband named his two girls Amy & Shelly, I don't know why

His son is Hank (short for Thanksgiving, which is what we plan for him this year

)

Silver pheasant cock: Heston, he stood his ground to all the peacocks and turkeys when he was first put in their pen

Royal Palm Hen: Elizabeth (well, she is royalty)

White Peacock: Cue-ball

Guineas: Shut-up, Quiet, any other word that means the same, applied to each and as a group

Suspected EE Rooster: Graybeard (because he has one)

Not everyone is named, just mostly as it comes to us.

Oh yeah, the cygnets: River, Jane, Kelly, and Chris (all unisex names since we don't know what they are, but the books said to start calling them by names right away, also River and Jane are from the show/movie "Firefly" which my husband loves

)

 

[chcknrs]

Purbil, Bob and Ted, named by our GS's. Ted is a girl!
Sweetcheeks, RIR, she was just so sweet and cute!
Alejandra, RIR, named by youngest DS
Queen Bee, EE, named by oldest DD, chick was bossing everyone when we first got her.
Goldie, EE, cuz of her color, which is now darker
Miss Thang, EE, cuz she struts so much
Red, RSL, named by DH
Roxie, mystery chick, named by oldest DD
Haven't named the rest yet

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

2 white polish Snowball (neighbor girl named her)
and Billie (Looks like Billy Idol)

4 white crested black polish: Pru, Piper, Phoebe, Paige (My favorite TV show is Charmed)

1 Buff Cochin rooster: Rooster Puff

1 Buff Cochin: Pretty Girl Fluff

2 Ancona (?) Queeny(thinks she is the queen), Princess (since she looks like Queeny)

3 Egyptian Fayoumi Nickel, Dine, Quarter (the first one of 4 was named Penny by Stepdaughter..so the other ones just got the following names...Penny has since died)

2 unknown Viper and Sniper(kids named them since they are fast like a Viper, and Sniper since it looks like Viper...they wanted the names to sound a like)

4 Barred Rock Charcoal, Racy, Fatty Patty, Stone (kids named them all but I named Fatty Patty...cuz she IS)

3 EE Pecker, Eggy, Neptune (Neighbor girl named Pecker, Husband named Neptune, and Eggy just happened)

1 Giant Jersey Miss Priss (I named her first...she is always first to do anything, acts better then all the others and is my favorite)

 

[nccountrygirl]

<---Cruella Mine are Cruella And DeVil, my BSL
Thelma and Louise, My 2 EE's,When I first got them all they did was run
Magnolia ( Maggie ) she as sweet as a Magnolia
Eleanor, I don't know what she is but she was named after an Old lady I know.
Dirty Bird, she likes to take dirt baths
The Hench Women, OEGB's Hateful little birds
Moe the King of the roost.
Captain Call, My BLRW cockerel
Peaches , BO
Scarlett and Tara,BR
Ginger and Penny, NH Reds
Spaz, I think she an EE. and she spazes out big time
Dixie, BLRW
Lori Darling, Lakenvelder
Claire, SLW
Lucy,RIR

 

[patandchickens]

My 3 yr old has named one of the Buff Chantecler chicks "Ladder". (Only one other chick, the runt 'Peep', even HAS a name).

I would dearly love to know why, but am sure I never will

Pat

 

[Portia]

Wow, y'all are creative. I don't have kids and mostly can't tell one chicken from the other of the same breed...needless to say many of them don't have names. The ones that do are named on appearance & personality.
SLW roo = Sir Feisty Roo
BR (lighter than the others so I can tell her apart) = Roxie
Welsummers (can't tell em apart, so who know's which is which) = Welsie & Foggy (her cluck sounds like a foghorn)
2 of the speckled sussex that are the most curious = Speck 1 & Speck 2 (but honestly I can only tell them apart from the other 2 when they are behaviorally gregarious)
Black Australorps were named as chicks b/c they were so friendly, I could tell them apart then, now I don't have any idea who is who so the names have pretty much fallen by the wayside) = they were Raven, Kiri & Majolica
SLW hens = Sami (looks like sam the eagle from the muppets) & Betty Lou
There's still at least half a dozen without names. I don't think they care one way or the other.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

Vivian- I saw a picture of a Black Cochin and that name sprang to my mind. So Viv it is!

I wanted "classic" names for the girls. So Mae and Emma for two of the Buff Orps. And my husband insisted on Daisy for the other Buff Orp.
We had a house rooster last winter that my daughter named Fred.. because he didnt look like "Bob" the rooster from her book.

He lives elsewhere now. Husband thought house ROOSTER was a bit much.

 

[ella]

My first batch I watched for MONTHS before I named them all, just picked names I thought fit them. Same for the next 2 batches.

When I finally ran out of ideas I started letting friends and family name them.

My last batch I let my book club friends name...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=167-Laotong_Chicks

That's how I ended up with Seigfried and Roy

 

[Eggseronious]

Sometimes they will do things that remind U of people! Like your MIL that wont shut up!

 

[sred98]

I love reading everyone's chicken names!

We just have 2 right now...a Silver Sebright chick (not sure of sex) named Roger Trace Adkins. My 7 yo named it after one of his favorite singers and some egg that was the class pet on Spongebob.

Then my mystery pullet I was calling Hildegaard, Hildy for short, but DH and the kids changed it to Petunia.

I used to have a little bantam male named Mr. Peabody, and a black Austrolop named Lucky, since he was lucky to make it through the night.

I also had an African goose named Bojangles.

These names are great! Kids are so creative. I love chicken nugget! Reminds me of my potbelly pig I had when I was little that I named Porkchop!


Shelly