Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Guest]

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?

[ali-s]

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

 

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

 

Congratulations on your new girls

[Cinnamon]

How about Squash - it would go well with Pumpkin

[Gallina]

What about Rubik? It's a Cube and a Game.

[Christian]

I posted my idea on your blog, but its vanished! So i posted again and now its there twice!

[Ladylucan]

I am surprised Dilly, i thought you would have rounded it up to 4, .... plus 11 is an odd number,..

 

 

I too am stuck for names, hence my polands are still called babies as i still cant tell the difference yet.....

 

Good luck with the names, x

[Guest]

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.

[craftyhunnypie]

I'd call her miss muffet - cos it looks like she's going to be sat on a frilly knickered tuffet.

 

You could have a nursery rhyme theme

 

Miss Muffet

Bo Peep

Mary Mary

 

I like miss muffet!

 

Emma.x

[foreveryoung]

titch or stumpy as she look titchy lol he a cutie!!

Edited August 10, 2007 by Guest

[Guest]

oooh lots of good names - keep them coming

[Christian]

Sorry Dilly, I thought she was a boy!! Don't know why? Could you edited it for me, to make me look slightly less stupid?

[Rabbieboy]

I think she looks like an "Audrey"

[starboyhull]

Have to say, I like Rubik

[Guest]

I will try Christianl

[ali-s]

My suggestions on a game theme are

 

Ludo

Cluedo

Hopscotch

[Guest]

[neal & ella]

If she's your only game breed what about Polly...get it...mono-polly! Sorry, that was dreadful . 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.

[chocchick]

I've no ideas for names 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

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

[Jools]

She looks more Modern Game than Old English? Though it could be because she is young and leggy?? Whichever, I think she is definitely a "Game Bird"

[Guest]

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 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!

[Jools]

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.

[Kathy C]

How about "Scrabble"?

 

I am not sure how old, or English the game is, but it's a play on words with Scramble-d eggs.

[Snowy]

That's a good one Kathy - I like it!

[Kathy C]

Thank you, it does sound cute.

 

I could imagine going "Oh Scrabble, what have you got on your beak?",

"What a lovely egg, Scrabble"

[Guest]

Sure does.