Names you gave to your hens, vs roosters

[fowltemptress]

I don't name my boys until the hormones hit them and I'm able to definitively rule out having to cull for aggression or some such, which means by the time I get around to naming them they're stuck with whatever defining characteristic I'd been singling them out for - Big Guy, Little Guy, Whitey, etc. My current roosters do have actual names (Rumplestiltskin, Romulus, Remus, and Klaus), but that's because I had so many roosters around that time that rather than bothering keeping track of anyone, they were all called "one of the roosters."
My girls are the ones who usually get the more creative names. I tend to pull from historical or famous people, or names from characters in literature, with no regard for whether the name is meant to be masculine or feminine.

If I've got multiple hens that look alike I enjoy giving them names that go together. For example, I currently have three black feathered hens I call Nattie, Kingsley, and Coal, after Nat King Cole - one of my favorite musicians. If Coal ever hatches some eggs, I'll be naming one of the resulting pullets Porter.

 

[Longacre petting zoo]

lol my roosters were axe 1,2,3 etc or walking dead 1, 2 etc until my mate could come and do the deed for me cause I couldn’t and that’s when I gave up hatching eggs just so my mates kids could all get to see it from start to hatch. I only really had hens to start with because people didn’t want ones that didn’t lay all the time and they would somehow find their way to my house but then I met a lovely lady that breeds bantams, pigeons and hens that I had never seen before lol so I a couple of frizzles and some funny pigeons and I’m very tempted to go and get one of her gorgeous fluffy kittens now all my cats have passed. All my birds and quite a few of my other animals have had people names. I have Charlie Bird & Stanley cockatoos, Steven cockateil and Rosey the galah. Myrtle the turtle, Jeff the mastiff, jeffrey when he misbehaves which isn’t often even though hes 100kg and I’m only 40kg lol Larry the blue tounge lizard, milly the donkey. Norman & Colin were my cats that passed away in the last couple of years and Sidney the cockateil and Jake the alexandrine. Roger, freddy and Bruce the kune kunes. I think creepy the crayfish was about the only one at one stage that didn’t have a person name lol
I know a guy jeff round the corner and for a while everytime I yelled jeffrey cause I had just caught him digging in my garden or pulling the spouting down or the steps off the veranda the neighbour would walk in the gate lol Id turn round and he would be half in the gate with a scared look and trying to decide if he was just going to back out slowly till he would see what the brut of a dog had done lol I like people names for most of my animals except my rotties. They have all suited their names though. Stanley can be very stuck up when telling me to hurry up with his tea lol. Charlie should of been denis the menice. He starts swearing at the top of his voice as soon as he goes outside on a nice day and if I break something he says ffs before I can say anything lol asks people if they want a cup of tea when I wasn’t going too and always offers kids a box of raisins when he has just eaten them all lol. Maybe I should give them animal names and they will stop acting like they are in charge of me. Charlie even tells me to go to bed when he gets tired and if I don’t his voice gets shittier and shittier lol

 

[AinaWGSD]

Hmm, I'm personally a fan of "old lady" names for hens. I've had a Gertrude, Gloria, Agnes, Myrna (I actually know an older lady with that name but spelled differently) and Celeste. My current girls (that I named) are named after fictional characters (Limu and Bibu from the liberty mutual commercials, and Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn).

My roosters have been Basil, Pepsi, Lowry, and Ludwig. Ludwig had a crow that resembled the beginning of Beethoven's 5th symphony, hence the name.

 

[BDutch]

If I've got multiple hens that look alike I enjoy giving them names that go together. For example, I currently have three black feathered hens I call Nattie, Kingsley, and Coal, after Nat King Cole - one of my favorite musicians.

I did about the same, giving names that go together.

My 2 black Dutch are named Black* & Pearl* (pirates of the Caribbean)
And my 2 bantam Amrocks are named Gin* & Tonic*. The cockerel that went to another owner was named Whisky.

Others roosters (siblings hens) :

• Tommy (Ini mini* and Pino) - Sesame street.
• Oscar (Count / Graaf Tel in Dutch & Cookie monster) -Sesame street/muppets.
• Kwik (Kwek and Katrientje*) - Dutch names in Donald Duck
• Tintin (no siblings)

Hens without siblings

• Janice* - muppet
• Kraai* (a present , the name means Crow)

* at this moment 8 hens in my flock

 

[ChikaInu]

Not chickens, but my quartette of yellow golden pheasants were simply named after yellow flowers before they were sexed - So I have Buttercup, Dandelion, Daffodil and Primrose.
Primrose turned out to be male and I love it!


Our chickens when I grew up were Elvira, Gullan, and Kajsa (this is the Swedish name for Daisy Duck), and our first rooster was Elvis.
After Elvis we had Idefix, Miraculix and finally a friendly giant named Goliath.

 

[fowltemptress]

Not chickens, but my quartette of yellow golden pheasants were simply named after yellow flowers before they were sexed - So I have Buttercup, Dandelion, Daffodil and Primrose.
Primrose turned out to be male and I love it!


Our chickens when I grew up were Elvira, Gullan, and Kajsa (this is the Swedish name for Daisy Duck), and our first rooster was Elvis.
After Elvis we had Idefix, Miraculix and finally a friendly giant named Goliath.

I've been following your thread with all the beautiful photos of the pheasants; I love it! Their names suit them.

 

[ChikaInu]

I've been following your thread with all the beautiful photos of the pheasants; I love it! Their names suit them.

Aw, thank you! I am so happy people are enjoying them!
I was going to be all pretentious and name them in chinese first, but I figured the flower names would be easier for the guests of the hotel to relate to.

They are very cute in swedish too. Smörblomma, Maskros, Påsklilja and Gullviva.

 

[Ingrid_Grace]

Hmm, I'm personally a fan of "old lady" names for hens. I've had a Gertrude, Gloria, Agnes, Myrna (I actually know an older lady with that name but spelled differently) and Celeste. My current girls (that I named) are named after fictional characters (Limu and Bibu from the liberty mutual commercials, and Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn).

My roosters have been Basil, Pepsi, Lowry, and Ludwig. Ludwig had a crow that resembled the beginning of Beethoven's 5th symphony, hence the name.

Love the names!! I can only imagine what his crow must've sounded like

 

[Ingrid_Grace]

Not chickens, but my quartette of yellow golden pheasants were simply named after yellow flowers before they were sexed - So I have Buttercup, Dandelion, Daffodil and Primrose.
Primrose turned out to be male and I love it!


Our chickens when I grew up were Elvira, Gullan, and Kajsa (this is the Swedish name for Daisy Duck), and our first rooster was Elvis.
After Elvis we had Idefix, Miraculix and finally a friendly giant named Goliath.

Ah! Pheasants are so pretty and I love the names you gave them!!

Wonderful names for the chickens too! I think I'll be stealing the name Elvira whenever my chicks arrive

 

[Evadig]

All mine get human names and the more old-fashioned, the better. I use a 1970s Webster Dictionary that has a list of given names and I'll browse that until I come across something that suits a particular bird.

I have nineteen birds so far, but if you would like their names, I'll gladly post them .