Nameing them

[pvc coop]

Thanks for the tips and laughs. Next time I go to the farm store I will check out those leg bands. In the mean time I will still some of my wife's nail polish, HA HA. As for names, I might just call em, One'y, two'y, three'y, etc. I have two groups of chickens. My yard chickens which are friendly and kinda of pets (5 ea), and my PVC chickens (4 ea) which I'm not attached to. So I'll probaly just name my yard chickens.

 

[valmom]

Don't name them! The ones you name are the ones the dogs or hawks will get. Or that will die of unknown causes. (3 of ours now that had "real" names - not like "Goldie" - have come to bad ends.)

 

[lengel]

We name them by batch. So, all of our first hens were Bill (after our neighbor who had an unreasonable antipathy towards chickens). The current batch is Geri (because they were geriatric when we got them). The pullets that are going outside tomorrow have yet to be named but it will probably be something like Fred. That way, when we're talking about them, we don't have to say, "one of the rhode island reds that we got last spring". We just say "Geri".

 

[sadieH5836]

I have eight girls currently. They are all named. I do have 2 RIR's but one is slightly darker and larger than the other. She's Crispy, and the smaller one is Cluck, who never shuts up. she even makes noises when she sleeps. Those are the only 2 in my flock that look alike. So it is alittle easier for me.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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This is so true!!! My chickens, however, all have names, so the predators just picked my two favorites to kill first.

As for telling them apart.....I used to worry about that, but it is kinda like having twins....you just KNOW. If, however, you don't, you can use the colored plastic cable ties instead of leg bands. Cheap, adjustable.....just make sure you don't let them grow too big and have it cut into their leg.

 

[moms_pantry]

We don't name all of ours, just the ones my son likes the best. He has a young polish that he has named Elvis. He is so cute with his black feathers sticking up on his head. He got two more and named them Oreo and Mario. We have a RIR that he named cookie thief because it jumped up and took his cookie out of his hand.

 

[flock-mama]

Only a few have names here, "Goldie" a RIR, "Henny Penny" a BO, I had a silver spangled hamburg named "blue" bacause her legs were blue, a barred Rock named "Barry" I have 3 white hens all named "whitey" LOL! I think the ones who are most social with us, get a name. But they are my girls, oh and my boys.

 

[ravenfeathers]

our chicks aren't coming for another two months and my 10 year olds have already named most of them. the egg business will be theirs, so they can do whatever they like as far as naming. our lone hen at present is named felicity because she's a very, very, very lucky hen. i call her 'ficky', though which is both shorter to say and more suitable to her oddball nature than something as dignified as 'felicity'.

 

[Whistling Badger]

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Great idea.
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[2manyhats]

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"Crispy" LOL! You have the same sense of humor that we do.