Chortle Chook Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 A year ago I had two young Polands (one guiness coloured and one white splash) whom I called Dee Dee and Doris Dey. I was smitten and OH thought they were just lovely as he loves all young animals and birds. Now a year on I still love them to bits (have to admit they are my favourites) but OH now calls them Digger and Dozer Do you stick with your original chickens' names or do they morph into something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 mine have various names depending on what time they wake me up:)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 My belgian bantam cockerel was originally called Rufus and his sister is Ruby. He has since been renamed Inch after the cartoon detective Inch High Private Eye as he has the same let me at em attitude and will take on all anyone. He has little man syndrome, I sure he thinks he is the size of an orpington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulabellx1 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 We stuck to our original names for our original girls, sadly we lost them in a fox attack and I was heartbroken We replaced them with four new girls and they were not named for a year as we kept having repeated fox attacks and I was genuinely afraid of naming them and getting too friendly with them. Anyway, the coop is now like fort knox! And we have had the fox come sniffing a few times but never gained entry, so we felt it safe to increase our flock and name the hens. I found it easy to name the four girls we already had for a year and knew well, but really hard to name the new ones as I didn't really know their personality. We have given them names now, but I'll happily change it to something else if it doesn't suit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 The only one of ours who has been renamed is Bluebell who started off life as Quartz. I got her as a group of 4 who I named after gemstones. However hubby (having a memory the size of a pea) could only remember that she is a bluebelle and couldn't remember her name, so she just became Bluebell. Actually, it does suit her much better, so it doesn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimnpaula Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 We have an ex commercial bird named Tango, who is generally known as Wonky on account of her slightly sideways protruding beak. It is quite common in this household to give our animals a name - and then they develop a nickname that gets used more instead. The ferrets tend to get "-wuzz" added to the ends of their names, except Fortune who gets called Fangs instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Now you come to mention it, my dogs have lots of names too. My blue greyhound is officially called Merlin but gets called Squirrel most of the time and my white Saluki who should be known as Cyrus gets called Moose, Moo Moo or Doby on account of his ears. If they don't have an identity crisis I guess my chickens won't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs_B Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 For me, I've shortened Pebble's name to Pebs, and that's stuck and I barely call her Pebble now, although everyone in my family calls her by her proper name I have found that in a month of having our lavender girls, we've called Floss by the name of Flossy instead - so I think the name 'Floss' won't be really be used after all! So not a huge change here... x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 when i collected my ex batts i had names for them all, one was mean though, she was a bully, not all that attractive and greedy....i decided to call her Barbara after my mother-in-law.....i love her now and she has settled in to being a sweetie...the hen that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I have a Rhode rock named 'half chook', as she was attacked by a large dog 5 months ago and never grew back her tail feathers and looks like a quail, but so glad she came back alive!! She is a crabbit wee broody for the last three weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daxigirl Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Millie Whippet tends to get goose or mongoose or mong. Zelly sausage dog gets Sumo or chunk sometimes little brown thing. Woody sausage gets wooders, woodchuck, woo or captain slow. Thora Bird gets Thorbs, and Evil Edna gets Eeeves, Eds, Eevils. Kindle gets pigface on account of her beak ring. Dolly tends to be Dolly Doolittle, Willo was Willo Longtail, Mavis was Fat Fairy. I could go on but will bore you all to pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clucker1 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Primrose became Dimrose! No need to say more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickanne Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Louise is usually Lou-Lou to her face or "the Ginger Ninja" when we are talking about her. She was "Mean Momma"when the new girls arrived. Millie is often Mrs Mills or Millikins. Ruby is often Rubydoo. Collectively,The Girls. Think we are smarter than they are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
