What is Your Favorite Word to Describe Your Flock?

[Love-my-girls]

They are my “Girlie Girls” or “Chickadoodles”!

 

[analyticalblonde]

They're all addressed by name.
At bedtime,it's like the Waltons.,saying good night to each.talking through the prison like triple wired and screened windows.the three small coops are key locked,so I say my final goodnight from outside,quietly,loud enough over they're 2 air conditioners.
"Good night art art night,lil'tail. Good night big chickie,good night nervous chickie,good night good chickie, ,good night big red. Sleep good,ill check on you later."which I do.
Good night Henry penny,good night peepers.",be a good chickie now".

Sometimes I say good night to theyre 2 friends that have Sadley passed,resting nearby.

That is sooo sweet...you have a golden heart!

 

[analyticalblonde]

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!

What a great post...LOVE the names and stories to them!

 

[analyticalblonde]

Same here. My whole flock gives me that stare. View attachment 1881444

 

[Chelsa'sChicks]

@Thesweetbirdsflock I do not know why they do this, but its not really breed specific. I have RIRs and leghorns that rub on my legs, I have accidentally kicked them and stepped on their feet cause they're so close.. Idk why they are so loving lol besides the fact that I love them back . I do have EEs, Australorp, and PBR, but its the RIR that are supposed to be mean and the Leghorns that are supposed to be nervous and flighty that act most like this. I'm pretty sure they would follow me blindly off a cliff. All my other birds will eat out of my hand, but those breeds are extremely friendly. Gosh I want to get more chicks so bad!!

 

[goldysgirl]

My 2 are "cold blooded", I am completely convinced that they would eat me if i was smaller than them. They look at me with one cold blooded eye, they are thinking of a way to kill me. I spoil them to, they give me 2 eggs a day.

I feel like this when I get home.

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Here is Moniques death stare

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This is her standing on the back of my chair looking for the best way to end me.
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Hilarious! And I agree! I have said that I wouldn't want to pass out in the chicken pen because I think they would eat me. They are adorable little cannibals.

 

[goldysgirl]

Nothing too exciting...my babies, chickies, or the birds. When they are ornery the are my little monsters.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I call them my babies, my daughter says I spoil them more than I did her growing up. I tell my daughter that the chickens don't whine and complain as much kids, and they're always happy to see me! Lol

 

[MsDarkAngelKisses]

I call my ducks ,"Girls" or follow your sister ! when they are together.
Now when they misbehave , " It's fuzzy butts" I use their names a lot too !

 

[Rocky-Acres]

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....

Girls