Naming chicks

[kelidei]

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Aloha Kelidei,

You know the funny thing I do name my chicks too. I look, like you, for diverse personalities in my birds. I am no expert in telling the young males and or females at that age. But I do have a couple of method that suits me fine. I look at feet and listen to voices, also at feathering when they feather out and just have fluff on their heads left on them. I usually wait a month to determine males from females, but often it takes longer. But when i place a name to the bird, I like to coin it to the two parents that they are produced form. Males from the fathers name and girls from the mothers name. If they are bought chicks that is when i just give a name to the personality or look of the bird. But somes times the chick gets the name just by it's own merits of the chooks personality. So good luck on the name game, as I call it. Oh yes I like the name "Bitsy" for the little silkie runt, that is a cute name.

Bitsy is hysterical... s/he is so small but isn't intimidated by the bigger ones...s/he will push their way right past the the others to get to the fresh food when I put it down.

 

[Buugette]

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I have...

Wilamena
Henrietta
Maxine
Lilly
Little Gray

I had...

Thelma (who died as a chick)
Phyllis (who was attacked by a hawk)

Just Hatched...

Tiny Tim (1/2 the size of my other hatchlings)
Madeline
Satan

... and 2 un-named chicks.

 

[KimM]

I have four kids who want everything named, so yes- we named all 12 of our chicks. They are (in some cases were) Lily, Sassy, Chicken Parm, Ahsoka, Sadie, Hermione, Harry Potter, Hedwig, Yoda, Sparrow, Magnolia, and Annabelle. The kids favor naming them after movie/book characters. Annabelle & Sadie were names we liked but never used for children. We are getting 9 more in April and the kids are already choosing names.

 

[kelidei]

Here is Bitsy with friends--- they were having a party outside the brooder for the first time

Let's party!

Silly silkie babies!

 

[cluckin tractor]

sorry to be mean from all of the posotive names but i once called one of my roosters curry becase i already had a good enough rooster and i wasnt goin going to have two roosters beetween ten hen

so once it had enought meat curry was turned into chicken curry

when i was young the movie nemo inspired me so most of the chickens were named after nemo characters

( nemo is a kids movie

about a fish and his dad in the ocean near sydney)

 

[lichick28]

I dont name my chicks until I am sure I am going to keep them. My Willow (silkie) who passed away this summer (9 yrs old) answered to her name & ran to me when I called her. I named her after a willow tree in our back yard. I have a white frizzle Grace because her feathering reminds me a of an x mas tree top angel. Luna (silkie) because of her clear buff coloring reminds me of the glow of a full moon, Violet my blue cochin, Shelby (silkie) because she came from Shelby county, Tennessee, Betty (silkie) & Veronica (silkie) because my first record when I a kid was Sugar Sugar by the Archies from the back of a Super Suger Crisp cereal box back in 1969. Brooklyn girl (australorp) just because I grew up in Brooklyn & wanted chickens since I was 9 years old & last but not least my rooster Presley (silkie) because he is the king!

 

[HorseCrazyy]

The names just come to my family. We have 36 chickens

Here are just some of them:

Blondie- Hen
Clyde- Roo (identical brother to Blondie)
Princess- Hen
Penny- Hen
Charlotte - Hen
Pork Chop- Hen (pork chop gave us a surprise she wasn't a rooster)
Ben - Hen/Roo (Identical to Jerry, Still too little to identify)
Jerry- Hen/Roo (Identical to Ben)
Peas- Hen
Sassy- Hen
Spaz- Roo (really is a spaz)
Poachy - Roo (Little humor there)
Squirt - Hen
Omelet- Hen

I also like these names


Goldie locks
Marshmallow
Olive oil
Little red
Bluebell
Honey bun
Butter cup
Chikitta
Queen
Mabel
Bonnie
Big mama
Laverne
Clover
Cinderella
Gizmo
Rosemary
Sandra
Small Fry
Yoko
Paprika
Nugget
Mango