Keeping the girls names straight

[Hottchick]

One super cheap and easy way that I use is silly band rings. Yes, sometimes they fall off or the chickens pull them off. But with only 1 or 2 of each breed, if one keeps the ring on it's leg, we can tell who's who. And the package was $1.00 for 20 at Wal-Mart so when they get lost it's no big deal.

 

[Kickin' Chickin']

After reading this I had a good chuckle to myself.Good chicken names. Thank goodness I only have 4 of the same chickens , they are bo's but the combs are so different on each one it is easy for me to tell them apart. We have Superchicken ,Goldie,Gloria, and Spike. I believe that I am only going to keep a certain number of each breed , that way we can recognize each one by name w/o confusing myself(I don't need the help ,if you know what I mean).

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I've never had trouble telling my hens of the same breed apart, except for one breed from some stock that looked identical. I named them all Rita. Then I used different last names for each of them, like I had Rita Moreno, Rita Hayworth, etc. At a distance, I just called "Rita!"

When I had a flock of white chickens, destined for freezer camp, I named them all Elvis.

I've used a lot of different zip ties. I bought a bag of cheerfully colored ones for some project for my parrot. A lot of them were defective and would pull open, instead of locking like they should, when zipped closed. Otherwise, I always have to cut them off, too.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

After raising THOUSANDS of birds over the many years, I've resorted to naming only the males....except.....
Bond, James Bond & the Bond girls.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I love that! They are beauties. We've been trying really hard NOT to get turkeys, to keep the work load down. It sure is hard, looking at pictures like that. I better not show my husband those!

 

[Olive Hill]

Very simple: here all hens are named Sausage, because that's precisely what they become at about 18 months old.

Cockerals are all "knock-it-off-you-little-b******!" because when there's a lot of them at once they are almost always into some kind of hormone-induced teenage mischief.

Only the roos that get to stay for breeding get names as we tend to have no more than five at a time. They too eventually become sausage though.

And then the different batches of chicks get named and renamed according to their stage of growth. "Hey, did you fill up the water for the big chicks today? Oh, good. What about the little little chicks and the little chicks?"

Come to think of it, now that I put this all out "on paper" it's a rather complex system.

 

[Olive Hill]

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Oh but turkeys are EASY! Much easier than chickens. They roost in the trees, there's not even a coop to have to clean out.