What are everyone's chickens names and why?

[silkhope]

These are great!

I have 15, nine of them are only 2 weeks old. My older guys and girls are Patches (beautiful Ameraucana cockerel), Spot, Fluffy, Gray, Chicken Little and Red.

The little ones so far that my daughter has named - Ping, Pang and Pong (I think they're blue cochins, my daughter thinks they look like penguins so the start of the names), Fuzz Bucket (Golden Polish), Sunshine (Ameraucana), my mottled houdan we've just been calling crooked beak or five toe... haven't figured out one for her yet.

I had a rooster, my very first, and his name was Russell Crowe

My favoritest name yet. I had to get rid of him though

once he came after my daughter, that was all she wrote.

 

[bethj7]

I have four babies and a moma. The chicks weren't hers. We haven't named the babies yet. But moma's name is Cinnamon. She is red-barred. Pretty as can be!!!

 

[skeeter9]

Let's see. . .

My favorite Buff Orp hen is named "Twinkie" because she is that beautiful glowing golden color.

Our Australorp hen is named "Aurora" because in the sunlight her feathers remind us of the Aurora Borealis.

Our Ameraucana rooster is name "Nakeds" because he didn't feather out for a very long time and ran around naked. The other chicks used to make fun of him. He didn't have any tail feathers until he was about 7 months old!!!

Our Ameraucana hen sisters are named "Snickers" and "Doodle". Snickers got her name because she is the colors of a Snickers candy bar, and Doodle got hers because is sounded cute with Snickers (SnickerDoodle). the girls are almost exact copies of each other!

We don't have any more interesting names or stories. . . .

Lori

 

[SunChick]

SIGH I am such a bad chicken mommy! I have only named 2 of my birds. One is T-rex...our broody RIR named for her snappy behavior and Frauline or known as the "Frau" She has a tumor by the side of her eye. She is also the friendliest and most clucking talking chicken we have. She makes sure that she shadows me and does not mind at all that I pick her up. The rest of the girls are known collectively as "The Mercenaries" since they tortured my new buffs and austrolorp when they were little. Now those gals are huge and can hold their own. I won't dare mention what DH calls the Austrolorp since it isn't very nice....he isn't very original.

 

[MarkR]

Sadly, only my rooster has his own name. Brave Sir Robin, since he's such a chicken heated guy (

). The girls are just called the Merry Maids.

 

[michellerene]

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What a great name!!!

My names are in my siggie-- I just named them as they came to me, starting with Queenie because she was the largest & oldest of the bunch-- then her "Sister Sarah. I wanted "Australian" names for the BA's, so I thought of Matilda & then Belinda just went with it. The two BO's are just so sweet and fluffy & yellow that they needed "sugary" names! DH named Snickerdoodle.

 

[iopele]

We've got so many chickens it would be impossible to name them all, but here are a few--

Twisted Sister--Welsummer hen who was stepped on and crunched by her mama when she was just a baby. Now she looks like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

No-Face--Marin rooster who survived a fox attack a year or 18 months ago, but lost his beak in the process. Aren't those supposed to grow back???

Lazarus--Welsummer roo who had home surgery to correct an impacted craw and survived

Red--(I know, so original, but it's better than #30--that's what her leg band says and it used to be her name, so anything's a step up from that!) RIR hen who just loves me, even though I only moved her 4 months ago and started helping with the flock. She'll follow me and jump up for treats.

Mucho Meal--really huge crossbreed roo that's going into the pot one of these days.

Tiny Tim--Another really huge roo, not sure what he is--solid black, just gorgeous.

Goldie--Welsummer/Marin cross roo, mostly black with a gorgeous golden "collar" of fine feathers

Mother of Many--Dark grey Silkie hen who's a great mama

Nile--Silver Silkie hen, so very, very sweet. She purrs like a cat.

Wolfgang--Polish rooster who is no longer with us... at least, we thought he was gone until we hatched:

~ Wolfgang Jr--A Polish/Silkie cross that shows no Silkie traits whatsoever. He's the absolute spitting image of his daddy, but he'd just better not have his daddy's rotten disposition or he'll be dinner. Wolfgang wasn't supposed to be involved in this hatch, but he could fly over the side of the pen and apparently he had a thing for Silkie hens!

~ Out Out darn Spot--Spot for short. Polish/Silkie cross who I had to help out of his shell. He's such a funny looking thing, pure black with a Polish topknot, regular chicken feathers, Silkie feathered legs, and one foot with 4 toes (Polish) and one with 5 (Silkie). And blue Silkie ears. What a weird chicken!

~ Hero--Blue Polish/Silkie hen--no headdress but no obvious Silkie traits either. She was the first chick to hatch from a really rough incubation where we lost power several times and then had a power surge that made the heat too high. (Spot came from this one too.) We didn't think anything would hatch, but lo and behold, around 10 chicks made it! And my 8 year old won't let us change her name to Hera.

Raw Chicken--Same hatch, a silver silkie with a silver headdress and black eyeliner. My mother wanted to name it Ra after the Egyptian god, but I asked her, are you really going to call it a Raw Chicken? And the name stuck.

Big Al--same hatch, can you tell my sons decided everything needed a name here? The biggest partridge Silkie I've ever seen. At 6 weeks, it was almost as big as the 2 year old roo. Absolutely huge. My 10 year old named it after the Allosaurus in that Discovery Channel special, Big Al.

Grey Punk and Brown Punk--Silkies with really sparse head tufts. They look like they've got spikey mohawks. (same hatch)

The Holy Hen--Delaware hen who was pecked so badly, it exposed her thigh bone and some of her intestine. (Hence 'holey'...) And she survived and is now thriving and laying eggs again... you know, it seems like half our named chickens got named because they survived something awful!

And finally, Dingleberry, aka the Runt, aka Where's That Little One, Did He Get Out Again. The only survivor of a Silkie hen who hatched several chicks, then decided to kick and stomp the heck out of them for no apparent reason. He just barely made it, and we think it's stunted his growth. Dingleberry got his name because, well, he's always got poop sticking to his butt.

When I get my Araucanas and know what roos I'll be keeping, I'm going to name the top breeding rooster Fabio. Since I write romances, and since he'll be the top cock ruling his harem, that name only seems fitting.

Don't you think?