My original flock of 4 are hand raised babies, collectively called the "Big Girls" the "Mean Girls" (Only mean to each other, sweet to me), the "Poofy Pantaloon Party," "Harpies" if they're misbehaving, or the "Dinosaur Pancakes." The last is because as youngsters they would go from being curious to being eerily Velicoraptor-like (sp?), to being flattened out on the floor fast asleep, flat as a pancake!
In the morning they get the singsong "Morning Ladies!" and that's to shut them up because they start calling to me as soon as they hear the door and my neighbors prefer to sleep past dawn...
Each has her own name and comes to it-
The Big Girls:
Ming the Merciless is an sleek little predatory EE- Lizards beware!
Nugget is my BO- Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and the troublemaker of the crew.
Drusila and Cruela are my barred rocks. Dru is my Head Hen, keeping the others in line. Cruela is aka Mrs. Wallowitz (sp?) from Big Bang Theory- she has that deep honking voice that is so sweet because she's happy to see me, and so annoying that I just have to laugh.
In the Florida room (yes, I have house chickens, even if that wasn't the original plan) I have 3 more- all Easter Eggers- 2 hens and one roo. They're collectively "The Littles" or "Dust Devils" and I know everyone here understands the amount of dust the little monsters generate, even when they get supervised time outside every day!
The Roo is called the Lucky Moose- lucky because well, lets just say he was supposed to be a hen and flew under the radar multiple times until he landed in my care as a 'really big and healthy baby' who started crowing a month later. Yep- my first chickens. LOL. Moose because he's about as graceful as his namesake, with some not-so-straight toes. Moose's original companion (1 of the 2 Littles) is called Punkinhead or Stockholm (Stockholm syndrome from growing up as two "hens" with Lucky Moose).
The remaining EE is Tilly- Attila the Hen- fierce with Moose and Punkin and still top chicken even to the full grown Moose, but she too picked on by the Mean Girls to stay with them. Tilly just got her bluff in -very well- when Moose was still gender undetermined, and Punkin just doesn't care.
I also technically cannot have a rooster, so I'm adopting the Sumatran Pheasant Idea! Brilliant!
Love this thread!