Who names their chickens?

[RoseHawke]

Well, I've only got four pullets, I suspect that if I had many more than that they would be named "hey, you!"

• Missy - Cream Legbar
• River Song - Easter Egger x Legbar (assumed)
• Osgood One - EE x LB (assumed) who has the most outrageous muttonchops
• Osgood Two - EE x LB (assumed)

For the longest time I couldn't tell One and Two apart, hence the names. Now it's easy.

 

[ackie]

We have a rule that you cant eat anything with a name, so I try to name them sparingly. I also swear they're more likely to die if they have names.

Most of my birds look more or less the same, especially the girls, and everyone is pretty skittish. Ones that show an extra affinity for people tend to get names. Or sometimes some get descriptive names just to talk about them easier, but that doesnt necessarily put them in the named category.

proper cant eat / not for sale names:
Moonflower - white pullet
Snowflake - white cockrell
(out of 55ish birds, only 3 were white)
Speckles - would you guess hes a speckled/multicolored cockrell? my housemate has taken to him and named him.
Foghorn Leghorn - my main alpha roo who's gotta be like 8 years old or some such. also named by housemate even though she wants to eat him
Tim - cock(rell) who got his behind handed to him in a fight and I nursed him back to health and my SO named him (after the wizard in Monty Python) so now I cant get rid of him hahah
Avary - cockrell that looks like a mini version of your Foghorn. He was just extra people-friendly as a chick/ would run to meet you when you opened the brooder so he was named by a different roommate before he was sexed
the two speckled hens - really just a descriptive name but they are my main ladies and arent going anywhere

do you see I've got way too many BOYS WITH NAMES ahhhh
they're just more distinctive and its unfair because I cant keep them alllllll

there is also Henry and Henrietta, who arent for keeps. a set my roommate named for ease of ID. I have two cock(rell)s with a long white tail feather and one has 1 lady and the other has 2 ladies, so the pair is Henry/Henrietta and the trio has no name.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I also swear they're more likely to die if they have names.

I think it is a law that anything you get attached to, is exorbitantly expensive or impossible to replace, or is essential to your program is 88% more likely to die.

 

[ackie]

I think it is a law that anything you get attached to, is exorbitantly expensive or impossible to replace, or is essential to your program is 88% more likely to die.

Your calculations led to 88%? Mine too! I think you must be right.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

Your calculations led to 88%? Mine too! I think you must be right.

88%. I'm 76% positive I'm correct.

 

[ackie]

88%. I'm 76% positive I'm correct.

82.5% of the time it works every time.

 

[CluckerFamily]

I have 16 pullets/hens and a rooster. They are all named.

 

[KingD]

I never name my hens.
They are for eggs

 

[City Farmer Jim]

We absolutely name our chickens...if you didn't name them how would you ever know who they are lol

Coco and Chanel Barred Rocks
Buttercup and Daffodil Buff Orpington
Rosemary and Thyme Gold laced Wyandottes
Biscuit and Grit Blue Wyandottes
NOG. Silver laced Wyandotte. Nog lost her breed sister to a predator attack a couple months ago...

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

We tend to only name those that have a particular personality or uniqueness and that will be kept.

Currently we have:

Rusty - Alpha rooster
Cotton Top - Our matron hen who is 10+ years old and is the "supreme ruler"
Lacey - Our silver sebright who is second in command after Cotton Top

Previous names used:

Nugget
Pen, Pencil & Ruler
Mocha, Latte, Freckle, Speckle & Dash
Romeo, Frankie & Pepper