How to raise Backyard Chickens: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Naming your chicken

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

[CHICKENS-101] Re: Naming your chicken

I am lucky enough to have a breed that comes in a multitude of color variations, so I can actually tell my chickens apart. Some have names I've always liked or that suit their personalities, some are named for characters in books, television, or the movies. Some have names I or my daughter have come up with out of the blue. I currently have 3 roosters: Gibbs (NCIS), Rick (Castle), and Daryl (The Walking Dead). The hens, in no particular order are: Ruthie (for my Aunt Ruth), Laci (Cagney and Lacey), Penny (The Big Bang Theory, plus she's mottled copper and white), Evilene (because she ran away from the person I gave her to and flew home), Gilda (for Gilda Radner), Bazinga (The Big Bang Theory), Nugget (she's teenie tiny), Pearl (from the book of the same name by Tabitha King, Stephen King's wife), Hope, Ziva (NCIS), Ebony (just because she's black), Stella (A Streetcar Named Desire), Oh Snap (My Name Is Earl), Rocket (this one goes w-a-y back to a horse from the sequel to My Friend Flicka), Abby (NCIS), Garcia (Criminal Minds), Opal, and Ruby (from the song "Don't Take Your Love Top Town").

I have one I was going to sell this week, but I just weighed her and she's only 7.2 ounces almost fully grown. If I keep her, she will be Scout (from To Kill A Mockingbird). My next rooster will be Sheldon (The Big Bang Theory) and my next delicately colored pullet will be Willow (for no particular reason). And I still have a couple of dozen names in reserve.

You'll find the right names for yours. Just let your mind drift and have a paper and pen handy. Write down all the names you think of - which will certainly be more than 9 - and then start crossing off the ones that aren't your favorites. Easy peasy. The only person that they have to make sense to is you.

Judy (my daughter) has two little Japanese bantam pullets, one black-tailed white and one black-tailed buff that she refuses to name until she "knows their personalities." The little cast-off rescue Japanese bantam rooster is named C.Z. (for Chicken Zombie) because when he was introduced into a friend's coop all the birds turned on him and pecked him so badly the back of his skull shows. Plus he has a wry tail. Really looks like a freak. If I knew how to caponize him, I would. I certainly don't want chicks from him, and neither does Judy. It may be a moot point, though, because at almost 5 months old he has yet to try and crow. I think there's a wee bit of brain damage from the severe pecking he took.

Di
Central Florida Zone 9a/b

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