What did you name your chicks ?

[Sloane Chickens]

I really wanted old lady names for my chickens! But my 4 year old had other ideas. Now they've all got a dessert/fruit themed name.

Lemon meringue pie
Strawberry shortcake
Chocolate milk aka milkshake
Raspberry turnover
Blueberry muffin
Skittle

Then when we hatched out our second set we kept loosely to the theme with:
Pumpkin pie
Ginger snap
Nutmeg (because pumpkin and ginger)
Sugar plum
And our roo that lives with the hens is called professor plum

Both plums are lavender orpingtons so I wanted a purple theme name lol.

We also have three roos living in a bachelor flock who we named:
Colonel Mustard
Sargent Pepper
And Captain Crunch (formerly named clove because he's the brother of nutmeg. But clove didn't sound good enough with the other very official sounding roos!)

My sister did a golden girls theme + Laverne & Shirley ( who ended up being a roo I now call Sirley)

We started old lady themed, then when we rehomed some chickens and the kids got involved in naming, it didn’t stick love the dessert theme names!

 

[Sloane Chickens]

If you want the names to stick well, what I found helpful was to make a list with twice as many possible names as chickens and shell them out once you one tell them apart by personality.
I, personally, don't like doing matching names (like salt and pepper) incase something happens to one of them, but an overarching theme is nice!
Also, two syllables and ends with a y or ie will get your chickens' attention better over time. Some of mine only respond to "chookies" instead of their name.

Oooo thanks for that tip!

 

[Sloane Chickens]

We've always named our chickens, but we are running out of names too. Names make it easier for us to identify them.
Here we go:
First set of chickens (both hens): Hubby named the 2 RI Reds after his favorite radio hosts....Jeff and Amanda. I had the worst time trying to explain to my hubby that both were ladies.

Then came chickens abandoned on our porch!: They all turned out to be female Leghorns and it was my turn to name them....Hawkeye, (she's hawk color) Whitie, (from the Bowery Boys) and Trisha. (hubby likes Trisha Yearwood)

A Leghorn rooster got abandoned on our porch!: He became George of the Jungle and was beat up by Jeff and Amanda. Jeff held him down with her big claw, and Amanda plucked out all his tail feathers!

Then we got 2 RI Reds and 1 Black Star off Craigslist: They became the NBA....Natalie, Braveheart, and Abbey.

Whitie died and hubby decided to replace her, but chicken math took over. We wound up with 10 lovely Black Star/Sex Linked ladies.: Ethel, (as in Ethel on I Love Lucy) Mertle, (as in Lilo and Stitch) Queenie, (named by my AI assistant PI) Ellie Mae, (Beverly Hillbillies) and need to think of some more names I guess.

I love chicken math lol

 

[Sloane Chickens]

We have: Quail, Alpaca (silkie roo), Buttercream, Squash, Crumb ( for our tiny silkie hen!), Burnt Pancake, Cookie Dough, Stripe, Timbit (bit for short), Blackberry (berry for short), Midnight (our blind hen), and sparrow.

Burnt pancake

 

[Elle111]

Track & Trace.

 

[Lrajos4]

My kids named my 5 week old chicks are...Mila, Diva, Vaz, Penny and Lilo.

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

Current flock:
Mr. Darcy
Caramel
Honey
Pepper
Hoochie Mamma
Un-level Gobble Gobble (don’t ask)
Chippy
Lilly
Nickle
Princess
Raven
Snowflake
Smokey
Beauty
Laura
Eddie
Goldilocks
Copper
Tiger jr.
Oreo
Cocoa
Phat Chic

Chicks, (Out of 12, these have names so far):
Layla
Dottie
Jenny
Buffy
Boofy
Polka

Bachelors:
Croak
Shreds
Lumpy
Dumpy
Thomas
Flooffy
Darrel

Previous/Deceased:
Georgy
Screamy
Zebby
Popcorn kernel
Pokie
Penny
Bumpy
Lizzy
Darcy jr.
Chubby
Hawky,(ironically, she died in an aerial attack.)
Chocolate Chicken
Velvetine
White belly
Speckled belly
Tiger
Pepper jr.
Ginger
Cinderella
Shirley
Goodness and
Mercy

There are still dozens more who don’t have names yet!

Naming chicken is one of the funnest parts of raising a backyard flock!
One day you’re sitting out there, and a name just comes, she may even be a year old! lol

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

My kids named my 5 week old chicks are...Mila, Diva, Vaz, Penny and Lilo.

I think Diva might be a roo…