AJuff Posted June 1, 2007 Share Posted June 1, 2007 I've ordered the eglu, researched the available hens and now I'm contemplating names. I found it easier to give the guinea pigs names . . . . suggestions please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Old-fashioned two-syllable names seem to suit best, e.g. Enid, Ethel, Mabel, Cleo, Elsie, Doris, Florrie, Minnie, Ena, Peggie: you could look at your family tree and choose your great-great-aunts' names. Or themes are quite fun: you can choose anything from an opera to a soap. But I end up giving them nicknames and forgetting their real names: my Gingernut is usually known as Ginge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 just beware of 'paired' names - if, as sadly happens sometimes, you lose one of the pair, the other may sound rather odd on its own! My friend named mine for me, I've never listened to a Wagner opera in my life. But I think I'll have to continue the theme, so she's going to name the next two when I get them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Just been through the same dilemna. An early suggestion was Pengy as we are all penguin mad! The other 2 girls we named after we met them, sometimes helps to choose names after seing them. On the other hand when I got my 2 lovely cats some years ago I picked out the names first and then went and collected the cats. I hadn't chosen the cats myself I got them as kittens from the Cat Protection League and had just told them I wanted tortoishell and white cats. When I saw them I knew straight away which was Scribble and which was Honey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 The first time round I got my niece to help, and she suggested Maisy, I chose Matilda to go with Maisy. Victorian female names seem to work well, so this time we decided to stick with them. Then OH suggested that we do it like hurricanes, and move on to the next letter for the next round of chooks! N wasn't very easy though, so we went backwards to L, which was much better, so we've now got Lily and Lottie to join Maisy! K's going to be a bit harder next time though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 K's going to be a bit harder next time though! Kitty or Katie should work, even if the first sounds a bit more like a cat than a hen. Might convince the neighbours that you've completely lost the plot if you need to go and call "Kitty, Kitty" at your pet chickens . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lailapet Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I know what you mean, AJuff, I think we have nearly decided on names for our 4 now... Wasn't easy though and might be changed as we get to know them better. Two of them just MIGHT be cockerels and they are still too young to be sure. We have decided to call the brown one Nugget (yes we WILL eat it ) The other might-be-male will be called Amy (from a song about a transgender person by my favourite band, Thunder) The big brown definitely-female is Marie (William's favourite children's song is about a ladybird. In Danish a ladybird is called "Mariehøne" and a hen is høne, so of course our hen is called Marie, geddit?) Finally, Pearl for the little black one (from the first "Pirates" film and because Sophia wanted to call it Perle, Danish for Pearl. I think we're all happy now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I bought my first eglu from money from my birthday and some inheritence so I named the first three after the benefactors (two grandmothers and mil). I wish I had given them something a little more funky now (my mums great at names) but I can't bring myself to drop the theme so when I do eventually hatch some more they'll be named after the next generation back. Luckily they have chickeny type names Henrietta, Edith, Florence, Gwendoline and Ellen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxy Loxy Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 My husband wanted to call our hens, Zinger, Twister and Colonel. (KFC names) I said no don't be mean. It took us two days to name our hens. The names just came. I stopped thinking too hard and searching for a name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Mum suggested Popcorn as one name but I remembered my nephews eating popcorn chicken from KFC or some such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jan_novice_chicken_keeper Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I really wanted Miss Babs, Miss Bertha and Mrs Overall, but the children were really keen to name them The names we've got seem to suit them now though. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJuff Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 Hmm . . . lots to think about, perhaps Omlet should start a list of names to compliment it's breeds and breeders section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Whatever you do, DON NOT LET YOUNG BOYS name your chickens. When we got our first four girls, they were given lovely girlie names: Belle, Amber and Star, with the boys being allowed to name the Whitestar.........Yoda! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 LOL my DS wanted to call them poo poo, wee wee and bum face! 5 year olds have an interesting idea of rude names! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenp Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I spent days thinking up names, and was getting no where. Then when we were on the way home with thme in the back of the car it become clear, my goldline is Amber ( as her feathers are the colour of amber), my amberstar is Opal as she is really creamy in colour and in the sun her feathers show blues & greens (just like an Opal), Sadly Speckleady is my hubbys and he christened her Hen , she knows her name and comes running when he goes into the garden!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Sadly Speckleady is my hubbys and he christened her Hen , she knows her name and comes running when he goes into the garden!! I like it! Ours tend to pick up second names, too! So Matilda became Matilda Wilda or Matilda Chicken, whereas Maisy is often Maisy Waisy or Maisy Woo! Not sure what's with the 'W's, but this tended to happen to our cats names too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJuff Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 My son would like to call his Black Rock hen Darth Vader! We've persuaded him to reconsider so he came up with Darcy Vader instead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 this is a fun thread- my chooks are all named out of the song Bohemian Rhapsody (which also gave me my username) firstly because of the film Wayne's World which my 2 boys still adore, secondly because of an Eddie Izzard sketch about Gallileo (our family's fave comic) and thirdly (phew) cos there are so many possible names in the song for replacements/additions. I fully intend to get 3 batt rescues later in the year and call them Thunderbolt, Lightning, and Veryveryfrightening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Mine are mostly (but not all) named for songs from my youth (gives my age away) Ruby (Tuesday) (Sexy) Sadie (Layla (RIP)) Lily (the Pink) (Black) Betty Lucille Dolly (Parton) The only ones who aren't are Lavinia, because she's lavendar coloured. And Fleur, because she just looked like a little white flower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Mine are mostly (but not all) named for songs from my youth (gives my age away)Lily (the Pink) I remember Lily the Pink!!! I'd forgotten about that! Awful song but great at the time (and very memorable, I realise!) We've just called one of our new chooks Lily (but she's off-white!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 ours are a combination of it girls: Tara (Palmer Tompkinson) Paris (Hilton) footballers wives: Chardonnay (from the ITV series) and Mercedes (coz it seemed to fit and she is mostly black like a posh Merc!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfrock Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I deliberately didn't name mine after anybody I knew or who was associated with work (as a housing officer I didn't want to come home and chat to one of my chooks who had the same name as someone who had wound me up that day ) I also didn't want people coming round and finding a chicken with the same name as them! I did quite well with the 1st 4 but hubby wanted input on the 2nd 4 and I am aware that Bella is quite a common name for a chook and I don't really like the name Bertha - he called her Big Bertha as she is huge, so I call her BiBi. The one exception to this rule is Milly. He (its an army nickname) is our closest dearest friend and he is ginger, and as soon as I saw my Brown Nick she was named Milly! Thankfully he is cool with that - maybe she can be his pin up while he is in Afghan I also tried to stick to 2 syllables. I'm sure you will find names come to you when you meet them. The boys (my whirly gigs - thats GPs!) took a bit longer to be named, I wanted to be sure their names felt right ...and I did change one of their names a week down the line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfrock Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Mine are mostly (but not all) named for songs from my youth (gives my age away) Ruby (Tuesday) (Sexy) Sadie (Layla (RIP)) Lily (the Pink) (Black) Betty Lucille Dolly (Parton) The only ones who aren't are Lavinia, because she's lavendar coloured. And Fleur, because she just looked like a little white flower Frightening - I remember all those songs too! Love the names Clare. They are great. I have a Ruby and a Tuesday, although that wasn't intentional. I don't know why I decided on the name Tuesday. It just felt 'right'. As for Lily the Pink, that was a school favourite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 I now have a Frankie too completely throwing out my trend (named by ds1 and geat as its unisex ,though it looks like being a girl) So may start afresh Any ideas? Or I may ask my mum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJuff Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Well after all that consideration my kids named the hens. My son wanted his Black Rock to be called Darth Vader but turned to Darcy Vader under duress! My 4 yr old called the white hybrid Daisy because she's white like their petals. My 9 yr old daughter called her Brown Nick Delia because it began with D!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
