Strangest and Silliest Chicken Names?

I have two newer buff orpingtons that looked so much alike I couldn't come up with names for them. Most of the others had them but these 2 eluded me. I was calling them the cream puffs just for reference. Then my two neighbor girls came over to see the chicks a few months back and one of them suggested I call the slightly larger one Cream and the smaller one Puff (because Puff was a smaller name). So they have been Cream and Puff ever since.

I also have a Mabeline (she looked like she had black eyeliner all the way around her eyes when she was a chick).

Then there's Dora the Explorer (barred rock) who loved to explore when she was just a wee one. We lost my favorite barred rock over the summer to the heat and her name was Stripes.

And we can't forget Cheeks who is an Americauna/easter-egger with the puffy cheeks.

Of course our resident rooster (buff orpington) is Trouble (Mr T for short). And he does think he's a bad dude!

The rest of the flock: Pepper (barred rock), Rosie, Ruby and Ms. Scarlet (RIRs), Buffy (buff orpington), Nasty Girl (australorp who likes to bite), Austra (another australorp), Blackie (black sex link), Baby Girl and Big Girl (Americauna's), Summer & Autumn (2 Welsummers). And last but not least Bo Peep who is a hatchling that Buffy brooded but came from Mr T and one of my older Americauna's.
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When we first bought our chickens I let two of them free range in the fenced back yard. While I was in the house (for just a second I swear) our dog jumped the fence and killed one of the chickens. The other chicken was missing. We looked everywhere for her. We walked through the woods, asked the neighbors and finally near dark gave up. I never thought she would make it through the night. She was only 3 months old. The next morning I got up and went to work sad but even more than sad I was angry at myself for letting this happen. That afternoon I went out into the fenced area again to see if I could figure out what had happened to that second hen, there must be some evidence... a feather something! Finally my son got home from the school bus and I had to move on with my day, you know all the regular stuff like starting dinner. That's when I heard it. It was a tiny little cheap cheap noise and I could not tell where it was coming from at first. I went back outside and listened. I called my son and made him crawl under the house with a flashlight ... THERE SHE WAS!!! She was fine!
Now, we are not the chicken naming kind. I have 20 hens now and to tell the truth most of them look alike.
But this one was special and she has a name!
My son ran in the house and looked up the name of a holocaust survivor. The first girl name he came to we named her. Because he said she had survived a holocaust of her own by hiding underground. He called it the chickacaust. (They were studying WW2 at school)
Her name is Jeanine and we call her Jeannie Wennie.
 
Our rooster, Rocky, had a favorite white hen who he adored. He never let her out of his sight and was always making sure she got the worm first. We named her Marilyn Monroe We also named on of their offspring, Flower Top, because she loved getting into my Impatiens flower bed. She was little but as she walked through the flowers, we'd see the flower tops fly off into the air. All she did was go through and nip the flower tops off.
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We have a RIR with a serious scissor beak named Lips. Our flock queen who can be a little, I will say pushy named Lucy-fer. Lola, who had the biggest most beautiful comb you ever saw on a hen when we first got her (It is since shriveled and scarred since our roo decided to try and kill our hens. He became BBQ). Lulu, who is a little...."off". Our EE hen is named Sam I Am since she lays green eggs. Our new teenager RIR roo is named Legs. He has the longest, yellowest legs ever.
 
My first 5 pullets were Big Red, Little, The Twins (Dark and Bright), and Middle Child. Something got all but the Twins. Then I added Sarah and Emily. Dark Twin hatched some babies from borrowed eggs, and one hatched a day before it was supposed to - he's Early (Bird). The neighbors named 2 black ones with white baby down Penguin and Penguin Too, but I like Heckel and Jeckel better, because they look like tattered crows. One large black one with not much tail I call Rumpy, and there's an EE-type with no name at all.
 
Okay, he's not a chicken, but my hubby's "bestest bud" is a donkey named donkey hotie ... and we had a jenny for a while named Dulci Braya (for Dulcinea, Don Quixote's true love)
 
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Donkey Hotie, Ha Ha that's hilarious. I actually laughed out loud and my hubby just looked at me like I'm crazy.
 

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