Who else doesn't name their chickens? Anyone?

[CentralOregon]

At my place, the chickens are all just collectively referred to as chickens and I haven't seen a need to name them. Quite the opposite. In fact, naming them makes it tougher (for some, not necessarily for myself) to harvest the birds for food, so I have forbidden anyone from naming them. Anyway, just curious who else might think that not naming their birds is the better way to go.

 

[mrchicks]

I have a few with names, but those won't ever go to freezer camp. The rest of mine will go to camp, and are just clucked to if I need them to come to me. I have a hard time processing a bird that has a name.

 

[Janis R]

You can name the, like Cordon Bleu, Fricassee, Dumpling, Fried, Stew, A la King, Tetrazzini, Curry, Kung Pao, etc. Just joking, I don't name mine either.

 

[SMonroe1990]

I don't name my either. My DH named one of ours and that is the only one that has the name. The others are just "Chick".

 

[scratch'n'peck]

It totally makes sense not to name chickens that are going to get processed for food. Although you will probably find more people who don't name the chickens on the meat chicken section of the forum. Here on the Pictures & Stories section of the forum we tend to have egg layers who become pets whether we intended it from the beginning or not.

 

[theoldchick]

If I name it I ain't eating it.

 

[Housemom408]

I don't name mine. They are all called chicken. I did band my young males so I could decide which one I wanted to keep. So they were referred to by the color of the band. Don't know if that counts?

 

[DianaMallory]

I never named mine in the past because they were all the same breed and very hard to tell apart. This time I got a mixed flock and I have been going back and forth with the name thing. I did buy dual purpose birds. I really don't have any intentions of eating this flock but, just incase I decided on dual purpose. Mostly to satisfy hubby! Name or no name if they stop paying their rent, they will probably end up in the stew pot!

 

[dekel18042]

Most of my hens are named but it takes a while as I wait until something appropriate pops into my head. Just a few younger ones unnamed yet, but I can tell them all apart.
When the kids were small we got 25 meat birds so we forbid the kids from naming them and making pets of them. Next thing you know we heard the kids talking: Where's 24? 3 and 7 were in the garden. Etc. They had the whole contingent numbered. Does that count as naming them?

 

[Xiao Casa]

Most of my hens are named but it takes a while as I wait until something appropriate pops into my head. Just a few younger ones unnamed yet, but I can tell them all apart.
When the kids were small we got 25 meat birds so we forbid the kids from naming them and making pets of them. Next thing you know we heard the kids talking: Where's 24? 3 and 7 were in the garden. Etc. They had the whole contingent numbered. Does that count as naming them?