I brought my chicks home from work today!

Now they need some names...

Here is what I have:

1 - Silver laced polish
2 - Americana
1 - Silver laced wyandotte
1 - Blue cochin

And I have one more on order. All are pullets, which means they are all going to be hens.

The polish is already named Hettie.

Any good ideas?

I think the Americana should be "Betsy" after Betsy Ross.

The Blue Cochin could be "Babe" after Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox. Or Linda 'coz Rondstat sang "Blue Bayou" so well.

Something with silver AND lace in its heritage could rightfully be called "Belle".

Don't know how GOOD any of my ideas are, but there you have 'em anyway!

Merme

BLUE
Should be named henny penny.

Blue and the sky ..Remember she thought the sky was falling?

dodge

Hazel is a good name for a chicken.
That was my pet chicken's name.


She got ran over by a gravel truck.

I like Hannah the hen. Sue

The blue cochin should be Crystal or Gayle as in "Don't it make my brown eyes blue"

The Americana could be Mary or Martha (Mary Todd Lincoln or Martha Dandridge Washington)

I also like Belle for the Silver laced Wyandotte

Just a thought...keep in mind that I named my cat KC for Kitty Cat

Well, you may be asking the wrong family here. We have a white dog with a black rear end called BlackButt and a gray cat called Gray. No imagination around here.

Tina you are so funny.

I too was trying to come up with famous chicken names in literature. Henny Penny, Chicken Little and the The Little Red Hen are pretty much all I can come up with. Authors don't have any imagination either. I used to have a Rhode Island Red rooster that we nameed (ta da) Red.

Sorry, Sarah, I am lousy at naming pets.

Fernie

I always felt so bad for Henny Penny.. She thought the sky was going to fall>>>>

Poor HP

Poor Henny Penny, but have you noticed that chickens are not the brightest birds sometimes?

fERNIE,

:rolleyes:

I noticed it that time.!!!!!!1ha ha

Maybe why they are called dumb cluck..

dodge

b

Growing up, my friends parents used to name their chickens in pairs, Bob&Betty, Pete and Polly, ect.

My last hen was Henny Penny!

So far only the blue has named herself...she seems like a Lucy to me.

Traditionally hen names end in a "y" or "ie"...I think 'cause it makes them easier to call.

I do like Hannah and Belle, though....

Thanks guys! Keep it up...

What about Lady for the Americana?

Merme

My childhood dog was Lady. Man, I miss her!

Thats the name of my mom's dog, Lady and she has a cat named Lucky.
Lady is always popular!!

Hey penny,

How did they deciede which one to eat?
We can't eat bob with out betty?/ ha ha

we know someone here who had a pet chicken that rode bike with him...On the Handle bars. ha ha

dodge..

Oh Barley clown.. My name is Barbie We dont buy me friends..ha ha

Buzby

The thing is that the chickens were truely family pets and to evenb think of eating them===no way!!!

Sorry Charlie......

Barbaque chicken is our sunday favorite..ha ha

Never heard of naming a chicken either.. i am a framer.

barb

princess,

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

b

I did not know people names their hens. Very cool. Do they really come when you call them?

You have loads of names right here at the Forum, you could name them after all of us Many of us end in IE or Y

Merme, Cindy, Trissy, Lozie

Triss......

We never named ours......We ate them..Haha

I hated to raise chickens.. Buy chicken for 39 cents a pound.

However the pet characters.. I use to have banny roosters, as a small child...Never remembered naming any.........
Actually our dog has a name and all we call him is , dog ......He comes......ha ha

Do you 6 kids have a doggie/

barb

No dogs here, no chickens either but I would love to raise them for the eggs. All we have is a cat.

We used to do them for eggs..So dirty to keep clean.......
Now we buy from another farmer..We have one dog and cats, with cows.........

That is all.. I once had 3 horses.

Pigs a couple times and quit......
We milked cows till I got pregnant and we quit. Now it is beef cattle..

barb

I think it would be a great experience for the kids to be able to go and gather eggs and all that. I am looking forward to meeting Sarah's chicks.

Okay, the two americana's have earned themselves the names Moxie and Roxie...they are quite the spunky little brats.

I had chickens at the farm.
The eggs were wonderful...not like the store-bought eggs.
They were so good!

Then, that one chicken tried to kill me...and it was never the same.
I was always too afraid of them to go get the eggs after that.

Sarah, I hope you don't have a killer chicken like I did.
If you do, you can name it Cindy!

cindy???? i thought it would be named freckles

we've had food chickens and pet chickens... very different, and the pets were named, but i can't think of the names now.

Killer chickens?!?! Oh dear. Now you know I will NEVER be able to get them cuz I will be worried one will come after me.

Hey now...I've had killer chickens, but they were all roosters. Man, they tasted good.

All my hens have been sweet.

Well that is good to know Sarah. Would not wanna lose a finger to one of your wee ones.

Triss

Just wondering where they will put the manure from the chickens? It is too powerful for the garden.Burns the plants.

Farmers put it out in the field.

dodge

Chickens arent they afraid of Bird flu?

Also dont chickens cause Lice in the hair?


dodge

not all fun an games

I have no idea Barb. Sarah, How are you gonna use your fertilizer and are you worried about the bird flu???

Bird flu will kill us they say!!!!!!

Why incourage it ?

b

I was thinking of getting some chickens, we already have cows so it's just another few mouths to feed, couldn't get any small pigs this year either. Chicken here is $2.49 a pound. It is getting too expensive for meat.

Having chickens with bird flu is like having cows with 'mad cow' the chances are very slim to nothing. Chickens also do not spread lice to humans. Dodge, what kind of beef cattle do you raise?

The one that tried to kill me was a hen.
She was sitting on eggs and I wanted an egg sandwich!
MY fault!

tamara

White face beef cattle.Hereford. red and white.

Will post a photo for you..
We buy chicken in the store for 39 cents a pound and think it is cheaper than buying feed.
We both hate raising them.. The killing and cleaning part .

tamara

Here is our cows this spring.. First calf of the year.

Enjoy...

dodge

afgrey parrot,

Yes the killing and cleaning part..Uggggggggggg.

Stinks........

We love chicken soup with parsley ,onions carrots and chicken.Yummmmmmmm
Pet owners will screammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

dodge

how bout...huey,dewey and louis...don t forget donald!!!

My son's pet hen was named Sparkey. Then a fox ate her. Mine was BuffOrpie (guess what breed) and the roosters were Big Pretty and Big Ugly. A few of the others had descriptive names, but I could never tell the white ones appart. I loved to go in the henhouse at night and listen to them cooing. So peaceful, so calming... I miss them.

Was it White Rocks/

dodge

we moved to town about 11 years ago and i still miss my chickens the most out of everything from the country. i never named any of them except our rooster, we just called him ralph. we had the rhode island reds, loved those big brown eggs. and the manure, well in the winter i just piled it on the asparagus patch, straw and all, the asparagus was so deep that by the time all the stong stuff washed in it was okay...the rest of it just went into the rows between plantings in the 30x80 foot veggie garden, kinda stinky for a day or more but it fades fast in the hot oklahoma sun, and then i would occasionally turn the chickens out in there and they would stir and scratch everything in pretty good for me if i had been too slow with the hoe. but that big garden, now that was ALOT of work. now i just grow salsa, you know, onions, tomatoes, peppers and cilantro.

patunia

Why did you move to town?

Dont think I can hack town............

dodge

My four hens were named
Henny Penny, Mrs Speckles, Psycho Sal, and Black Betty. They ran free range around the farm usually, and we put them away at night in their little hen house.

Bernice

Nice photo...........

I didnt dare let them run loose.......They poop all over the lawn,, i didn't like that.. Scratched out alll the flowers too......

However I see how you knew them apart .. 4 different colors......Mine was all alike ,ha ha

dodge

I posted my chicks names in the pet post, but figured I would redo it here...all banties...
The rooster - Ichabod/Ichabutt
The girls - McChicken, Chirpy, Sticky Feet, Chip and Dale...my 5 year old named all but McChicken - named by my SO - and Ichabod - by me.

We've never had chickens before, and are composting the waste. My SO also is building a chicken tractor for them, which should be interesting. McChicken is getting trained to be our stealth mosquito killer and is definately the smartest out of all of them and the easiest to catch. Who needs TV when you have chicks?

Send me the photo of the tractor..Never seen one..

Ha ha
glad you like them.........


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dodge