Question of the Day - Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

[sourland]

Cry, Willful, Philly, Baby Jayne, Will, Choc, Tell, T Time

Miss Maggie Mae - still grieving - run Maggie Mae run

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

The cats are Champ and Mandy, and the chickens are Mr. Beard, named after James Beard, the cook, Peeper, Goldilocks, Silver, Sprinkles, Delaware, Dover, Lil Nancy, Gidget, Holly, Ivy, Mo, Charlotte, Cleo, Penny, and Bean.

 

[Evadig]

Ok...here goes nothing!

Evangeline (dog): we were living in Louisiana at the time and I have always liked Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" and I was living in Acadian territory.

Annie Beth (dog): the convent we bought her from insisted that part of the dog's name be Bethlehem, and we had a great grandmother named Annie who was well loved in the family.

Constance (cat): To honor my favorite aunt

Briana (cat): I don't know why we picked this name!

Jane (parakeet): we bought two, a male and a female, who were called Dick and Jane from our old reader. Dick escaped somehow and flew away, but we still have Jane.

Alice (rabbit): I don't know why she got this name

Amelia (rabbit): I don't know why she got this name either.

Seraphina (box turtle): I don't know why she got this name.

Rustina (box turtle): Was supposed to be a boy but we realized he was a girl. Her shell is rust colored.

Sophie (box turtle): She was named as a tribute to our dog who passed six years ago.

Winston Churchill (rooster): He looks regal, and I wanted to give him the name of a king. But somehow Winston Churchill fit him nicely, even though he isn't a gentleman like his namesake.

Stanislaw (rooster): I don't remember why I picked this name for him.

Lydwinne (hen): The Welsummer breed is originally from the Netherlands, so she had to have a Dutch name; we named her after St. Lydwina, a young lady who lived in Holland back in the 1400's and was paralyzed from a skating accident.

Rose (hen): She's a Delaware, so black and white, and I thought the name of a Dominican saint suited her...so, St Rose of Lima is her patroness.

Prudence (hen): Being a Plymouth Rock, she naturally had to have a Puritan name; Puritans loved virtue names so we went with Prudence.

Wilhelmina (hen): She was supposed to be a Barnevelder but turned out to be a Cream Legbar. Anyway, Barnevelders are from Germany so she got a German name.

Jenny (hen): Jenny has always been one of my favorite names, and since Jen cost me the most money and is also the most stunning of all my hens (she is a Jubilee Orpington), she got the name. She is also named after another great grandmother who was named Genevieve.

Vivienne (hen): She's a Buff Orpington, and she is named after Vivian from the Lucy Show.

Dolores (hen): I remember reading on BYC here about a lady whose hens were killed by the government for having avian flu, and she was screaming "run, Dolores, run" to her remaining hen. I named our Black Australorp Dolores just to get that association out of my head - now when I think Dolores I think of my hen.

Lily (hen): I needed matching names for this Naked Neck and her sister...

Lucy (hen): who quickly got named after Lucy in the Lucy Show.

Honor (cockerel): hatched on Memorial Day and the name was suggested by N F C.

Liberty (cockerel): also hatched on Memorial Day and the name was also suggested by N F C. By the way, both were supposed to be girls.

Henry (drake): He's a Saxony, so needed a German name as the breed originates from there. His nickname is Napoleon/General McClellan because his personality is identical to theirs - short and very arrogant!

Hilda (duck): She's a Silver Appleyard, which I believe was developed in Holland, so she got a Dutch name.

Winnifred (duck): Welsh Harlequin and needed a Welsh name; besides, I was a bit jealous of everyone else with a Winnie.

Claire (duck): She is a Duclair.

Maggie (duck): She is a Magpie.

Phyllis (duck): She was the only survivor of a twenty-egg clutch. Very strong like her father, Henry, we thought she was a boy until she quacked, loudly. She had been named Philip Howard after an English Cardinal back in the 1600's. When we realized she was a girl, she became Phyllis.

Angelica (duckling): Just picked a name that I thought suited her, since I don't know her gender.

Greg (duckling): his sibling hatched on the feast of Pope Gregory the Great, who is responsible for Gregorian chant (and I'm a church organist) but the sibling looked nothing like a Greg so this little fellow got the name.

Moira (duckling): I knew this was my last chance to name something after Officer Moira Smith, who was killed on 9/11 as she went back into the Tower to save more people.

Doris (duckling): I wanted an old fashioned name for her, especially since I hatched her myself in a makeshift incubator, and Doris hasn't even made the list of popular names since 1960. I figured it was vintage enough!

 

[The Moonshiner]

The only "pet" I have that's mine, mine, all mine that has a name is my dog Banjo.
Banjo because I picked him special to be a hillbilly farm dog so he needed a hillbilly name. And bonus because it worked out he could have his own theme song.

 

[CCsGarden]

I have so many!

As for my chickens it goes:

Brahmas:
Brahms
Margarita
Joan
Palestrina
RIP Fuzzy

Gold Laced Red Wyandotte's
Barbara
Apollonia
Petra
Cypiano my only rooster
RIP "stinky brown one" before I named them and my siblings had the idea of that name.


Blue Laced Red Wyandotte:
Peretua

Buff Orpintons:
BB, Buff Brigid, bus baby ( I know dumb names!)
Cecilia
Chrissy
RIP Victoria and Philly

Dominiques:
RIP In Albis or Box
Dominica

Cream Legbars:
Agathae
Felicitas


Leghorn:
Josephine

Wellsummer :
Gaby

Speckled Sussex
RIP Abigail

Sparrows:
May
Tiny (My brother named him) and I think he had some other names.
They are now in the wild and still come to the yard for food!

Doves:
Pichon
Alexandra
And my others.

Why I chose those names?
Wanted them to be named after some Saints and composers. Some of my birds are not listed on my about. ^

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Effie - a character in a book I read (not hunger games), and a ballet