Lol I've threatened some of my chickens I was gonna change their names to food names. At least one rooster became Stu, and a chronic escapee hen was threatened she was gonna be named Dumpling or Fricasee!
I have more named hens right now than I ever have before, and those names are based primarily on personality but sometimes on appearance.. Tornado, a Sapphire Gem, identical to her five sisters, is always underfoot. Dingbat and Dipstick - obvious. Day-Late, another Gem, ... yeah, always a day...
We don't name all our chickens, but those we do are named based on their personalities, appearance or experiences, anything that makes them memorable in some way. Not sure if I have mentioned these two pullets before. We hatched these, out of 22 eggs we got 4 cockerels and two pullets. It was...
Cool! Just an FYI, "Lady Bird" was the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Claudia Alta Johnson. She was First Lady from 1963 to 1969. He husband became President when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 (anniversary of that date coming up shortly) in Dallas, TX.
There's been a change in our "system." Until this last batch of chicks (now 4 months old), we didn't name our chickens, except very rarely. I usually did name the roosters.
But this time, I have broken with tradition, or policy, and named them all. Five Dominique pullets: Thing One through...
A friend of mine had a cat named Spoony because she told her three kids they could each choose a name and she would select one from among their selections. They put their heads together and came to her with their offerings: Knifey, Forky, and Spoony. 😂
So, y'all probably gonna laugh, but ... I let them name themselves. Mostly I don't name them except the roosters, which I got a new one recently, a neighbor gave me to replace my BJG that a coyote got. So I'm looking at this nice big roo, and he's kind a bright orange color. His previous owners...