Hi all! It is chick season soon and I want to know about a memorable chicken you have had, why and/or what is your favorite chicken name?
Here is an entry to start us off.
I had the UGLIEST chicken ever. She was a half silkie, half turken. She was all black and so homely someone brought her in to school and said that they couldn't stand looking at her any more and that i could take her or they could put her out of her ugly misery. ( How could you not love a day old ugly chick?) I named her Medusa.
She was black and naked, or course, from the neck to the chest. And she had the silkie toe and one weird patch of silkie type feather on the top of her head and down her back.
Then she grew and grew and grew and my little Medusa turned out to be a dude ~ we rechristened him M'Duder. He grew a weird orange saddle and his neck turned bright red! After his rechristening he also turned totally evil and I had to protect myself from him with a shovel. I had the ugliest, meanest, but best named rooster on the block!
Annual Chicken Naming Question
Well, I can be second, and say I named Bruno and Clyde because when they were chicks, Bruno was the largest and most dominant of the Australorp chicks we got. DH wanted to name him Brutus, but I told him we didn't have a Popeye, so it was Bruno. Clyde came about because I couldn't cull him with his gold hackle feathers, and naturally it had to be "Bruno and Clyde".
We also used to have an EasterEgger hen I named Trouble because it suited her perfectly. She was the most "getting into trouble" hen we have ever had. She was the one who taught the others how to fly over the fence, would find holes to use to get out of, and in general caused us grief. Hence, the name.
I usually don't name too many of my chicks as I don't want to become too attached to them.
I had a Rodie rooster that we named Chicken Frank. He was an extra rooster so we raised him loose in the yard as a pet. Problem was that he had a bad habbit of getting in the garbage can. The garbage man came early one morning, emptied the can in the back and we heard a squawk when he ran the compactor. He drove away real fast and never looked me in the eye again.
We also had three buff hens that someone gave me for CHristmas, they were, of course, "The Three French Hens", Monique, Fi-Fi and Jeanette.
That is so sad and yet really hilarious about the rooster! Poor roo!
I have a gal named Pandora, because she is trouble, too.
granny, you are right. When you name them, it is all over! They are pets for sure!
well, I was able to put Tawny (the absolutely meanest rooster), Trouble, Grinch and Precious in the freezer, but had to have DH do the honors.
We wouldn't have put Tawny there, but when he attacked DH, that was it!!!
I name them anyway, I figure that by the time they come in from the chopping block naked, I can't tell who they are.
As far as CHicken Frank and his unfortunate demise, you have to appreciate irony if you're gonna have chickens.
Very true, jylgaskin, very true. But still, I am not going to put Rocky in the pot. All others, most likely.
My current roo is named Inspector Flecks or Flex ( he doesn't care). he is named so b/c he is a speckled sussex, but also because he came to me from my parents after my dad was really inflexible about keeping him. When he's fussy like that we call him Flexy Steve.
I also have three auxiliary backup roosters ~ General Tso, Amaretto and Emilio Earheart ( he was thought to be a gal!) that are all silkies.
All of our chickens are named. I can't always tell them apart but my kids know exactally who is who. They named most of them. Some are named by what they did or looked like as chicks. So we have a Jumper, Sleeper, Light Headed etc. We also have one they call Question because they forgot what they named it. Also the one that layed the first egg was named Pechew but now they call her Egg Layer. And one dominique my daughter named Pooper because....you guessed it, she pooped a lot (don't they all).
Our roo is called Sir Fosworth Peckfellow (I named him, we call him Fozzie for short) and then we have 2 others that became pets from a hatch last July. One was called Baby because he hatched a week after the others and we just called him Baby all the time and it stuck. He is now a beautiful rooster, I think we need to call him Butch or something:) They also named the hens from the hatch so we have one named Poozie, a mix of the mom chicken...Pooper and the dad roo Fozzie.
We also have bantams, Brownie, Smudge, Speckles ( a liitle sebright roo, he sounds like he says "I'm speckles" when he crows), PJ (our little cochin) and Banana (she was light yellow Polish with a plume on her head when she was little that made her look like a banana).
I think our coolest named chicken is our frizzled cochin roo named Napoleon. He spends his whole day running around the pen (not walking) and picks on other roos and hens (large or small). He is a real pain in the tailfeather!
Love it!
I had Attila the Hen and Hennibal, as I was going through a historical generals phase. I had Decibelle, too, who was very loud. And Poor little Euclid, who ran in circles until she died!
I inherited my first chickens when I bought my property two years ago. The former owners were going to throw them over the fence to the coyotes untill I said I'd keep them. Among the selection was a Red Bourbon turkey hen I named Gurdy..because of the sounds she made. She took up with a really obnoxious duck I called trouble because it was more polite then what I wanted to call him. But the one I like the best is the little black cochin hen. She has massive foot feathering and looked like a little rapper whose pants were always falling down. I named her Moisha. Hey..what do chickens know about politically correct???