Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: chasechicken on November 22, 2010, 17:25
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Just wondering if the rest of you have the same need/urge to name your hens ridiculous things that I do...
Felicity
Charity
Cynthia
Suzy
Dandelion
Hyacinth
And our latest addition, Peachy Puff! (Puffy for short).
Oh, and the ducks are called Clarissa, Beatrice and currently un-named but probably Duffy.
Let me know your silliest names!
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I have three chickens called: Prada, Alessi and Mulberry =D and the Quail are called... Gucci, Chanel, Sisley, Dolce, Gabana and Tiffany!
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well I have a Clucky, Salt, Pepper, Sweet and Sour-these are probably my wierdest. I'm sure someone else had wierder though!
CC x
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I like them! Sensing a theme there with both of you!
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I was going to name mine Peggy, Billie and Dinah but my son got there first and gave them regular names Bunty, Babs and Ginger. Borrrrrring :nowink:
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I have Poulet Noir (little black Silkie who we still don't know if it's a boy or a girl) :blush:
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My Speckled Sussex were called Splish & Splosh, they looked like they'd been in a paintball fight & Splosh hadn't managed to dodge as much as Splish. Only Splish is still alive :(
Ever wondered how birds arrive at their names? I had 2 ex-bats that looked very similar (actually, most people said all 6 looked the same, but what do they know?) but one had a slightly crossed beak so I called her Mrs Crossbeak which morphed into Mrs Crosby which was a bit strange so I Google'd Bing Crosby & lo & behold his first wife of 20-odd years was called Dixie Lee which I thought was a great name for a chicken! The one that looked like her was very chatty so I called her Betty as she was the speaker of the hen-house...
Currently I have Aggie, Afro (large comb), Dixie Lee, Rosie, Splish, Bobby, Twinkle, and the new arrivals Bella and PomPom...
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We have Grace (mother-in-law) Gladys (after my granny) and Cilla after Ms Black cos she's loud.
Jinty
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We have Blue, Ginger, Mimi, Maggy, Mopsy, Flopsy, Tuplip, Rose, Meep, peep,
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LOL I love some of those names! :lol:
I don't have any chooks yet but it seems to me there are two main themes in chicken names: flowers and aunties. So I have made a long list of potential chook names based on those two themes.
My "Aunties" list has names like Gladys, Mavis, Elsie and Pearl. My "Flowers" list has names like Lily, Marigold, Daisy and Violet.
I read a delightful story the other day about Minnie-Rose Lovgreen so I suspect one of my hens may end up being called Minnie-Rose. http://minnieroseschickensandlife.com/
Surely all ex-batt hens should be named Faith, Hope or Charity?
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My son names all our pets.
Hence we have ended up with Cleopatra, Electra, Dolly Parton, Little Miss naughty, Betsy and Pretzel, Beatrice, Bruce and Peter.
The latest kitten wandered in a few days ago.... 'Mum, he's definitely a James' :blink:
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Some years ago my cousin and his wife got a little dog. They both liked the name Benjamin so that's what they named the dog. A couple of years later they had a baby - a little boy. They still liked the name Benjamin so they named their baby Benjamin and changed the dog's name to Geoffrey.
Very confusing for all the family - including the dog! :blink:
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Some years ago my cousin and his wife got a little dog. They both liked the name Benjamin so that's what they named the dog. A couple of years later they had a baby - a little boy. They still liked the name Benjamin so they named their baby Benjamin and changed the dog's name to Geoffrey.
Very confusing for all the family - including the dog! :blink:
Ha thats so funny!
My best mate had a go at me cause we called a cat 'Evie' whilst my she was pregnant.
Apparently she had earmarked the name for if she had a daughter!
Thankfully she had a boy!!
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Hehehe - some great names. I agree with the theme - flowers or aunties (great aunties perhaps)...
The ducks, after escaping again, are currently just called 'the ducks'. They will be upgraded to their individual names again if they start to behave!
Same goes for 'the cats'. They're bad too! I don't have children, but I think with 9 animals - all of whom have different personalities, and all but one who seem to want to make my life miserable - being a parent would be a breeze!......
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We Have Dot, Doris the Oprington Dora, Flora the Frieian and Velder, Zelder the Barnevelders
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Ours are Tilly (the hen), Wilma, Pearl, Paxo, Amber, and Ruby. And we did have Pearl and Alice (RIP).
All from a very very long list of potential names prepared by my sister. An excersie that involve a takeaway menu and the Radio Times.
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most of mine are named after the 40's and 50's music scene and film stars with the exception of three that were sold to me as one breed but turned out to be crosses - these are called, Miss Sold, Miss Led, and Miss Take.
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Squish - for the smallest hen we have who seemed to be the roosters favourite!!
Crowborough and Hastings for our Light Sussex boys ( no longer with us)
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We Have Dot, Doris the Oprington Dora, Flora the Frieian and Velder, Zelder the Barnevelders
Why not get another and call her Esmerelda the Barnevelder....?
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When I used to name them all they were....
Doris
Henrietta
Pollyanna
Rose
snowy
Then they had to be named after their leg ring colours!!
Orange = Nell
Blue = Bella
Yellow = daisy
Green = Gertie
Pink = Primrose
Now only the very special few get names...
Billy and Lily the polands....
Whoopie, Doopie and Doodle do the Pekins I got from djban
And for some reason a few of the cockerels get called names beginning with O
Ollie
Orio
Oscar
Orrible (he bites my leg and hangs onto my trousers) :D
Silly though coz once they have a name I cant bear to part with them :(
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Yes, naming them makes everything so much harder. It also gives them more of a personality... and that's just not a good idea with a chicken!
For a while we had to use their leg ring colours - when we first got the ex-batts they were very distinguishable as they had various levels of bald patches, but once they turned into beautiful hens, they looked the same.
We have four still but all different colours, and so generally we do actually just call them 'grey hen' for the Hipswell Coucou and so on.
The ducks all look the same, and they're still in our bad books. So they're still "the ducks".
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Our geese are:
Letrec (the Toulouse goose)
Jean-Luc (gander)
Uhura
Seven (of Nine)
Troy
Its all the Toulouse's fault ::)
Eli xx
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My eldest daughter named her chicken BELLA after osme vampire or summat, I dunno ..... one got the name VICTORIA PECKHAM as she pecked me all the way home from the rescue centre. The most beautiful of the 5 we got had quite a lot of feathers whilst the others were very scabby and bald (ex batts) became NAOMI (as in Campbell) and my 5 year ols named her chicken PRINCESS EGGY CHICKEN. One remained nameless for about 4 days, then suddenly she started making this most bizarre noise that sounds like the start of the dambusters theme, so she became BUSTY!
I love that my 5 have names and personalities, tho I know it will be a whole load more heartbreaking when they eventually go to chicky heaven!
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Hi Catsmuvva,
Esmerelda what a great name, my husband say no more chickens but thats what he said before Velder and Zelder ha ha
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Cagney, Lacey and 'M' (she was going to be Moneypenny but got promoted) all boyfriends choice
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PRINCESS EGGY CHICKEN wins the best name of the year award in my books..... what a fab name :D :D
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he he .... I must admit, I love it too! Jasmine, my daughter and head chicken keeper, tells everyone all about Princess Eggy Chicken at every oportunity! :D :D
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Why not upload a pic of Princess Eggy Princess...?
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Princess Eggy Chicken! This is her on the day we got her, she is pretty much the same 2 months on. Our other hens seem to be feathering up quite nicely but I feel poor Princess is forever going to be the ugly duckling.
(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb425/HellsBells72/chooks053.jpg)
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What fab names you all have.
I'am afraid mine are not so unusual.
Gerty
Gwladys(my gran)
Pheobe
Flo
Edna (pa's gran)
Doris
Fourstar ( pa named her because she was the fourth bird we had and her feathers
have a petrol blue tinge to them.
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Princess Eggy Chicken! This is her on the day we got her, she is pretty much the same 2 months on. Our other hens seem to be feathering up quite nicely but I feel poor Princess is forever going to be the ugly duckling.
(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb425/HellsBells72/chooks053.jpg)
But her name makes up for anything lacking in the attractiveness department ( I keep Co-Nus and think they are lovely :D )
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Aww!!!
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Simples
Betty (coz next door reckoned she looks like Betty Grable)
Amy ( coz of her crest and dak appearance, friend named after Amy Winehouse) RIP
Mandy ( Ginger - colouring looks not dis-similar to a friend called Mandy :ohmy:)
Tolly ( a Suffolf Noir - Tolly Cobbald being an old brewery)
Biscuit ( another Ginger)
Lilly ( lord knows why - Missus named her )
Bluebelle ( well she's a Bluebelle)
Bantams
Pearl ( well we were told she was a pekin - Not)
Pepper ( coz she answered to it - so it stuck)
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I don't name them all but for a few favourites - I have Tiggy Legge-Burke (Legbar), Buffy (Orpington) Foghorn (Leghorn cockerel) and Cogburn (as in Rooster Cogburn - Welsumer cockerel) and Brunhilda and Betty my Barnevelders.
Are we mad - I think so!