What do you do to tell your chickens apart?

[Fluffy Lambs]

I don't really know what to put here so just vote I guess

 

[igorsMistress]

I’ve seen people use all of those things, but I don’t see the point in doing it unless you breed them and need to know. Eventually they grow up and have some trait that allows me to tell them apart.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

I can tell mine apart by personality and how they look!

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I can tell mine apart by personality and how they look!

Same here. Most of mine look different, and they have different personalities. I would use little rings if I need to keep track of a few chickens, or if you have only RIR’s since they all look the same.

 

[littledog]

When we first got chickens, we got different breeds and gave them names and it was easy to tell who was who. Ten years later, we have a lot more, some of whom are hard to tell apart since they were chicks raised by one of our broodies, or ones we adopted from neighbors at different times.
We know our rooster obviously, his two sisters are cuckoo Marans we can't tell apart. The two RIRs we can tell apart because one is bigger, but the new ones are red stars who look identical, as well as another red star mom and her three babies who are getting big and look just like the mom, except for the white baby who we suspect is a rooster. The rest of them we've had for awhile and know who is who.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Same here. Most of mine look different, and they have different personalities. I would use little rings if I need to keep track of a few chickens, or if you have only RIR’s since they all look the same.

I know people with the same chicken use bands a lot but honestly I notice such a difference in each chicken I don't understand why like I guess because they don't pay much attention to them or something?

 

[swamphiker]

I have a small flock with different breeds so I don't generally have to do anything to tell them apart. I have a batch of chicks that I will be splitting up in a few weeks (keeping some, giving some to friends, selling the rest), so I will likely use nail polish or similar temporary mark to keep track of them for a couple of weeks.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

I added another option on the poll

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Same here. Most of mine look different, and they have different personalities. I would use little rings if I need to keep track of a few chickens, or if you have only RIR’s since they all look the same.

Yeah! We used to have 3 RIR and I could tell them apart fine, Mostly because they had different personalities!

 

[DickMidnight]

makes no diffence to me. my wife named them, but i call them chicken 1, chicken 2, the white one, hey you, and come here.