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[bekibutton]

Hi everyone!

 

My mother's getting some new ex-batts and we're trying to think of names for them. I thought it'd be good to take a topical approach and name them after Olympics-related people/places/sports/equipment etc. 'Jessica Hennis', anyone?

 

Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

 

Becki

[Willow]

Love Jessica Hennis An olympic theme would be interesting just remember they live for many years so the names need to make sense long term.

I've been a bit boring with mostly flower names - Lily, Daisy, Jasmine (renamed to Yasmine after a cousin when I realised I preferred the name Yasmine), however our Miss Pepperpot was always Pepper. And we have 7 and Jane (shortened from Janeway) we adopted from a previous star trek fan forum member who had to rehome her chickens.

 

In my view joky names like nuggets, tikka would wear thin after a while.

[craftyhunnypie]

Jessica (Ennis), Zara (Phillips)

 

Or maybe Olympic events?

 

Miss Long Jump, Miss Shotput, Miss Hurdle Gurdle, Miss Super Sprint etc etc

 

Personally I'd have High Jump & Leg it.

 

Emma.x

[bekibutton]

I thought of some more, but I think they might be a bit naff

 

Eti'hen'ne Stott

Mo Feather ( )

Victoria 'Hen'dleton

'Bock' Adlington

 

I agree with the no-food-related-names thing. We're all vegetarian in my family anyway so it would just be totally unsuitable!

 

The best names I came up with for my hens (when I still had them) were Weem (named after the little broken spaceship thing in Batteries Not Included, because I had to assist her out of her egg), Damien (female, born 6/6/6), and Florence (after Florence and the Machine, because she was a red chicken and Florence Welch has red hair)

[LolaCola]

[Pearls007]

This made me laugh

 

I am sure they were named

"Sweet as Cherry" Pie

"Golden" Nugget

Noodle "Doodle" because of the way she potters round the run!

[sage]

I let DD aged 3 name my new girls, we now have the BBC in our garden . Beauty, Belle & Cinderella.

 

Sage

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Ushen Bolt? Sorry .

 

I usually name each new group starting with the same letter (except when ES had a hand in it - I always get mixed up with that lot ).

 

We've had Milly, Molly, Maisie, Poppy, Penny, Jess, Steph, Beth , and now Lulu and Layla.

[Gertie]

Love the creativity!

 

I named my ex batts after their incarceration & freedom - Plucky, Squash & Liberty. My non batteries are named (not terribly imaginatively) after flowers - iris, Flora, Briar.

 

What about fruits & veg? I could see a hen called Peaches, Pepper etc!

[Purplemaniacs]

I named the ex batts, the A team Agatha, Agnes and Annie. The next group will be the B team

 

I do need to name the bantams one is Daisy our three year old GD said the next one to hatch will be Daisy, the next one was a Welsummer so one of the two Welsummers is Daisy

 

Chrissie

[redcharlie43]

As Ex-batts are normally ginger ninja's, how about ginger olympians? You could have Annie (Annie Last), Ruth (Greg Rutherford) and Wiggo (Bradley Wiggins) or even Danni (Daniel Purvis). I know not all of these are girls but I had a chicken called Agamemnon as she was such a bully!

Enjoy the naughty girls you get. They will be lovely whatever you call them

[newcountrygirl]

Dont let grandkids name them! - We just got three new chicks to go with our three older girls. The three older ones are Madonna(Madge to her friends) , Gladys Pugh (cos she looks like the character in Hi-de-hi, and Matilda. Not too bad - but my three and a half year old grandson insisted on naming the three newbies - hence we have Henny Penny, Chicken Little and Holly Shiftwell!!! I feel a right dork shouting them in the garden.

[jimnpaula]

When I got my ex batts I went for 4 to 6... when I opened my carriers I discovered that an extra one had been added and we had 7. Looked at my selection of legrings and realised that there are 7 colours in a rainbow: started off down names that means colours tangent... right, red... ruby red. Aha moment - gemstones!

The gemstones theme carried on for two sets of girls, although the skyline didn't follow and got called Skye. When I got the ex free rangers I was going to do cocktails/alcoholic drinks - I fancied shouting "Tequila" down the garden, but couldn't decide on other ones (Too long, too difficult to say quickly). I ended up with soft drinks instead (Cidona comes from Ireland btw) and the girls have the appropriate coloured legrings.

 

P

[dancing cloud]

First ex-batts, I allowed the niece and nephews to be involved (not necessarily a good plan) - Daisy, Dandelion, Clover, Chance, Hope and Joy

 

Next ones, I chose things they'd never have seen before - Sun, Moon, Sky

 

Two nephews helped with the next batch, so song names L and R - Lola, Lucy, Lady, Rose, Roxanne and Rhiannon (who always and only responded to "Little Chicken" )

 

Christmas rescues had to be Holly, Berry and Mistletoe (though they were briefly in danger of being Jolly, Merry and Downright Tiddly )

 

And last weekend's newbies (my first ever "proper" chickens) are Myrtle and Marguerite. They were going to be Twilight and Starlight to reflect their colouring, but Twilight looked like a Myrtle, so I stuck with a flowery theme for Marguerite.

 

Whatever they're called, they'll be very lucky ladies and will love having their freedom !