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If you click on my www link below - you will see that I have been a naughty girl again and slipped out last night to get some more birds - by accident.

 

It brings my flock to 11 now and I am getting stumped for names.

 

Can you help me out?

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I was reading about your new arrivals this morning on your www I think you could have got away with getting 12 :lol:

 

I am useless at names which is why we ended up with Jeremy yesterday when I let Jack choose a name :lol:

 

Congratulations on your new girls :D

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I was going to only get 2 - but I couldn't resist the Old English Game bantam. Then I thought I might go for 4 - but I have just sold my last eglu and the ark is only really big enough for 3 bantams and I only want to keep them in there for a few days - they look so cooped up after seeing mine all roaming around.

 

So as I would also like a wyandotte or a seabright, I am leaving my options open as it were.

 

The names are all lovely - I think I will have a poll on Monday - not near the computer tomorrow.

 

If you do leave a comment on my www it only appears when I go in and moderate it - which I will do periodically today and first thing in the morning and last thing at night tomorrow.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions - you can keep them coming. :wink:

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If she's your only game breed what about Polly...get it...mono-polly! :lol: Sorry, that was dreadful :oops: . Personally I like the Rubik idea too. Ours all have old-fashioned girls names; Nora, Betty, Elsey and Agatha but my wife, Ella, commented the other day that their bottoms look as though they're wearing old-fashioned tennis knickers so maybe Martina, Virginia, Monica, Stefi etc would make good names.

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I've no ideas for names :oops: I thought of Flossie for some unbeknown reason, but not sure it fits her.

 

I'm getting incredibly broody about some fluffy little bantams, they're gorgeous. I love Pumpkin and Rosie. I like the way you told OH you got 12 :angel::lol:

Maybe my OH would be resigned to it if they appeared :? (when we have more money and space).

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I was told the Modern Game Bantams are those bred from the Old English so look similar in stature - and that both have now had the aggression bred out of them so that they are very docile and child friendly birds.

 

Old or Modern - makes no difference really to me :wink::wink: I may have misheard the breeder - and got it wrong - I do have a hearing loss so it is quite possible and the chap had a very very strong accent too.

 

But as you said Jools - she is definitely a game bird - and a very pure bred one and the chap specialises in those and the Rosecombs.

 

I will compile a list of the names - pick out ones I like best and then we can vote on them!

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I have an OEG bantam called Boeing - because she used to do aeroplane impressions around the garden when we first got her. She's much more steady now (she's nearly 5) and is a wonderful mother - she's still looking after this year's babies and they are 8 weeks old now.

 

I had an OEG cockeral as well and he was a proper "Kellogs Cockeral" and an amazing character. I called him Sid (Hissing Sid) because that's what he used to do when the pigeons flew over. Sadly I lost him last year because of an impacted crop, but I'd love another just like him.

 

To get boring for a minute, there are two types of OEG - Carlisle and Oxford. The Oxfords are leggier and more upright than the Carlisles, and the Modern Game are leggier and taller still. Mine are/were Carlisles. All are very popular at the shows though.

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