Why Name that CHICKEN?

[donrae]

Funny about how the kiddos name animals! My kids grew up in kind of a media black hole, so they always named animals after foods

. funny if it's chickens, but just kind of weird to have cats named Hot Dog and Corn Dog.


I name roosters, they're distinctive and have earned their places. And like Blooie said, it helps the Honey identify who is who. He has no clue who the silkie or Ameraucana are, but he knows Glen and Sylvester. Hens don't get named unless they have some distinctive trait--Momma-cita and Nervous Nellie come to mind right off. Otherwise, barred Rocks are Barbie, buff Orps are Buffy, etc. Real imaginative, I know. But hens aren't so much pets here.

 

[keesmom]

My kids come up with all sorts of weird names. In the past we had roosters named Larry, Moe and Curly, Tater Tot, Spazzy, and Grumpy Gus. We had a blue Faverolles cockerel they named Olive of all things. Hens have been Boss Bird, Willow, Apple, Speedy, Milky Way, Cocoa, Peanut, Super Fluff, and countless others. Two of this year's young cockerels have been named Android and Eagle, and so far pullets Grape, Quack (a Cochin, not a duck), Oreo, Curly, Chirp, Nougat and Suzie. I suggested they hold off on naming the younger birds until we figure out who is staying and who is going to the freezer.

They do name the meaties though. KFC, Dumpling, Noodles, Chunky, Drummie, and so on.

 

[donrae]

My kids come up with all sorts of weird names. In the past we had roosters named Larry, Moe and Curly, Tater Tot, Spazzy, and Grumpy Gus. We had a blue Faverolles cockerel they named Olive of all things. Hens have been Boss Bird, Willow, Apple, Speedy, Milky Way, Cocoa, Peanut, Super Fluff, and countless others. Two of this year's young cockerels have been named Android and Eagle, and so far pullets Grape, Quack (a Cochin, not a duck), Oreo, Curly, Chirp, Nougat and Suzie. I suggested they hold off on naming the younger birds until we figure out who is staying and who is going to the freezer.

They do name the meaties though. KFC, Dumpling, Noodles, Chunky, Drummie, and so on.

Ooh, Oreos! That reminds me I bought some and hid them from the locusts, er, teenagers in the garage

. I'ma go grab some!

 

[Spartan22]

They do name the meaties though. KFC, Dumpling, Noodles, Chunky, Drummie, and so on.

Or general cho?, chicken tender? BW3?

 

[keesmom]

Ooh, Oreos! That reminds me I bought some and hid them from the locusts, er, teenagers in the garage

. I'ma go grab some!

Good thing you don't have my daughter. She can sniff out sugar no matter how well you hide it. Oreos are a favorite as are whoopie pies. Of course she's the one that's a twig.

 

[keesmom]

Or general cho?, chicken tender? BW3?

Unfortunately my daughter is a picky eater, so her names are limited. Dumpling, Nugget, KFC, along those lines. She is calling the current batch by a generic name, the Meateaus Wonderouses.

My son will eat anything as long as it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare. He occasionally comes up with better names like Taco, but he's also responsible for Tater Tot, Android , Eagle and Olive.

 

[donrae]

Unfortunately my daughter is a picky eater, so her names are limited. Dumpling, Nugget, KFC, along those lines. She is calling the current batch by a generic name, the Meateaus Wonderouses.

My son will eat anything as long as it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare. He occasionally comes up with better names like Taco, but he's also responsible for Tater Tot, Android , Eagle and Olive.

that's cute!

 

[sophiaw00]

My kids come up with all sorts of weird names. In the past we had roosters named Larry, Moe and Curly, Tater Tot, Spazzy, and Grumpy Gus. We had a blue Faverolles cockerel they named Olive of all things. Hens have been Boss Bird, Willow, Apple, Speedy, Milky Way, Cocoa, Peanut, Super Fluff, and countless others. Two of this year's young cockerels have been named Android and Eagle, and so far pullets Grape, Quack (a Cochin, not a duck), Oreo, Curly, Chirp, Nougat and Suzie. I suggested they hold off on naming the younger birds until we figure out who is staying and who is going to the freezer.

They do name the meaties though. KFC, Dumpling, Noodles, Chunky, Drummie, and so on.

I have one hen named Tater and another named Tot. They were bought for egg laying though. My best friend was responsible for their names

 

[shortgrass]

Funny about how the kiddos name animals! My kids grew up in kind of a media black hole, so they always named animals after foods :/ . funny if it's chickens, but just kind of weird to have cats named Hot Dog and Corn Dog.


I name roosters, they're distinctive and have earned their places. And like Blooie said, it helps the Honey identify who is who. He has no clue who the silkie or Ameraucana are, but he knows Glen and Sylvester. Hens don't get named unless they have some distinctive trait--Momma-cita and Nervous Nellie come to mind right off. Otherwise, barred Rocks are Barbie, buff Orps are Buffy, etc. Real imaginative, I know. But hens aren't so much pets here.

Lol I just got a name for my broody 4 month old Cochin! Mamacita lol...

WAY better than "Lap Chicken"

 

[HennaRose]

My mother has been threatening to name my chicks after chicken dishes since the first brood. She was throwing out names like Cordon Bleu, Cacciatore, Nugget... I shot them all down, because none of my birds are destined to be dinner. They're pets who lay eggs.

The first brood, I named - I picked names based on the country where the breed originated. We originally had Bianca (white Leghorn), Sophia (Easter Egger), Rosetta (RIR), and Francesca (Buttercup). Francesca died the night she arrived, and I replaced her with two chicks from a local person who had too many. We got an Australorp (Matilda) and a black sex-link, which then-three-year-old Little Miss named Vanessa. Then one of the dogs killed Vanessa when she was five weeks old, so we don't have her anymore. Bianca died a few weeks ago (she's the chicken in my avatar; she was in confinement for bullying and she would get into yelling matches with her reflection in the bathroom mirror), so now we're down to just Rosetta/Rosie, Matilda, and Sophia/Sophie for the big girls.

The second brood arrived in August, and now-four-year-old Little Miss named, except for Chloe (Buttercup). So we have Zoe (white Leghorn), Abby (Buttercup), Oscar and Grover (both Fayoumis) and Elmo (I thiiiink Partridge Rock). Elmo was a surprise - I only ordered five and I got six. He wasn't listed on the packing slip, so I don't know what breed he is or whether he was sexed or straight run or what, but I've suspected for weeks that our Elmo Chicken is a boy. He's developing differently from everyone else. He's bigger, he's feathering differently, his legs and feet and comb are much larger than everybody else's (though his comb isn't even pink yet, and I haven't seen wattles develop yet). He acts differently, too; he stands taller and straighter, he runs faster, and he's bolder than the other babies, too, at least with me. They're all skittish of the big girls (Rosie's not very nice, and Matilda yells at them a lot but she never chases them), but Elmo rarely runs from me when the rest of the chicks do. They'll be six weeks old tomorrow and I haven't heard any crowing yet, so I'm *hoping* but I'm not optimistic that Elmo will turn out to be a girl after all.