What is Your Favorite Word to Describe Your Flock?

[TLHloveschicks]

I call my chickens my ladies. They use to be Ladies Eight. Since I added 12 more they are my ladies. I have all Isa Browns. I don't have to call them, because when I open the back door they all come running to meet me at the gate. Some of them have names. One is Miss Boss, another is Henrietta, and one is Scratcher. Some of the other 17 have names. Love my chickens. I love to visit them or set on the screen room to watch them.

I feel the same way...love just watching them and being around them. Two of them actually like me to pick them up and talk to them! My Barred Rock, Sassy, and my RIR, Scarlet. They are the best!!

 

[SueT]

Next question might be, what do our chickens call us?

 

[Woodyheight]

I call them my feather heads.

 

[NewFLChickenMama]

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!

 

[Vascgirl]

My son calls them his big babies. They are a motley crew. One flys into his room at night and roosts on his TV. I'm not sure about this, but if he keeps the window closed the chicken goes to his coop. My son has great joy caring for these crazy chickens.

 

[TinaMarieofFL]

So, I have seen wonderful terms of endearments on BYC that oozes love for each person's girls.

I was just wondering what word or term of love you use when talking about your girls...?

List them away because I would love to see what you call your girls....

I refer to mine as "Ladies". They follow me around the yard. When they are across the yard, I call out "Here chickie chickie chickies" and they come running.

 

[VictoriaTemple]

Feather babies, or bitties (like "biddies" and "itty-bitty"). All 17.

The boys are Hero (Jersey Giant), Danny (Easter Egger), and Zonk (Red Marans).

The girls are:

Cochins: Megiddo, Maggie, Happy, and Sunshine.
Brahmas: Trusty, Deco, and Taxi.
Marans: Pella, Jay, and Layla.
Jersey Giant: Mary
Rhode Island Red: Amelia
Americauna: Sonora
Black Jungle Fowl: Raven.

Planning on getting a handful of Cornish X at TSC during Chick Days, they will be "the brood" or "the meats". Really shouldn't name them unless I keep any to breed (unknown, never had them before and they are of course terminate). I am such a darn chicken addict!

 

[HappyHens2018]

I called them chickie doodles. they come running. Most of the time I just shake some pellets and they come running or swooping In screaming like crazies

 

[cleoandtheflock]

Sometimes if they are being good I call them little petunias
But I usually refer to them as chickies
Or ladies

 

[BOKONH]

I love my girls & let my old girls just retire ! I do find the oldest goes out last & comes in last ! My dogs help keep predictors away ! I call them all in by saying " HERE CHICK CHICKS ...COME ON CHICK CHICKS ! " AND THEY COME RUNNING FOR A SMALL TREAT - BACK IN THE COOL Coop\pen! ALL HAPPY !!ME TOO