Official BYC Poll: How do you name your pet chickens?

How do you name your pet chickens?

  • We don’t name our chickens!

    Votes: 33 7.2%
  • We let the kids name them.

    Votes: 77 16.8%
  • We give them old-fashioned names (Flora, Prissy, Hazel, etc.).

    Votes: 81 17.7%
  • We start their names with the same letter (Bailey, Barb, Beatrice, etc.).

    Votes: 11 2.4%
  • We name them by personality (Sassy, Gabby, Bossy, etc.).

    Votes: 112 24.5%
  • We name them after food (Peanut, Nugget, etc.).

    Votes: 78 17.1%
  • We don’t have a special system.

    Votes: 162 35.4%
  • We name them by appearance (Red, Fluffy, Lavender, etc.).

    Votes: 145 31.7%
  • Other (elaborate in a reply below)

    Votes: 150 32.8%

  • Total voters
    457
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It is extremely rewarding to name your chickens, transforming them from just egg-laying machines to house pets.

Despite the fact that there is no shortage of human names, you might want to give your chickens a more creative name. As with people, each chicken has their own unique personality. Chickens also have fine memories. Whenever you call out their names, they will come running, particularly if it is because food is in sight.

So we would like to find out: How do you name your pet chickens?

Place your vote above, and please elaborate in a reply below if you chose "Other". And feel free to share your chickens' names with us as well.

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Most of my hens have names that just kind of popped into my head, but my Silkies get food names, and recently I’ve started using names of movie characters. For some reason I tend to name them in pairs :gig
My current flock includes Silkies PuffPuff and Wasabi, Barred Rocks Pippa and Peggy, Polish Cruella and Estella (CeCe and Stella for short), and a few who have yet to be named. Past names include gems such as Cheese, Cashew (who only responded to Pig) and BonBon, Owl and Chipmunk, and Peep and RePeep.
 

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