[Flowerpower136]

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.

[joyfull]

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.

[Junie]

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)

[Catsmuvva]

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....?

[Chookiechook]

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) 

Silly though coz once they have a name I cant bear to part with them

[chasechicken]

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".

[elibump]

Our geese are:
Letrec (the Toulouse goose)
Jean-Luc (gander)
Uhura
Seven (of Nine)
Troy

Its all the Toulouse's fault 

Eli xx

[Haychee]

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!

[Pol]

Hi Catsmuvva,
Esmerelda what a great name, my husband say no more chickens but thats what he said before Velder and Zelder  ha ha

[SamT]

Cagney, Lacey and 'M' (she was going to be Moneypenny but got promoted)  all boyfriends choice

[Chookiechook]

PRINCESS EGGY CHICKEN wins the best name of the year award in my books..... what a fab name

[Haychee]

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! 

[chasechicken]

Why not upload a pic of Princess Eggy Princess...?

[Haychee]

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.

[Ma Lowe]

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.