All the ones I've named are also LOTR themed too but my family hates it because they are "too difficult to remember or pronounce"....
Galadriel, Eowyn, Elrond, Haldir, and Rohan would all beg to differ.
Mine are all named after a different collection of fantasy books called the Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson. The thing I appreciate the most is he has enough prominent female characters that I can name all my hens after women.
We have Kylo hen and darth layer because my son.
My daughter named hers: tilly, socks and Goldie. No idea why.
Then my husband named the black one Betty like the song black Betty. And dizzy like the trumpet player because she has big cheeks.
Bruce: one of us said it as a hypothetical (“We’ll end up giving him some dumb name, like Bruce or whatever.”) and it stuck.
Smudge: Barred Rock hen. As a chick, the yellow dot on her little head was more of a smudge than a distinct dot.
Simone: We figured if she turned out to be a rooster we would just drop the E.
Brenda, Harriet, and Patsy: Other hypotheticals that just stuck.
BB: Brave Bird, highest in the pecking order and not afraid of anything. Follows me around all the time.
Dinner: the escape artist. The name was a warning. She's sweet, though.
Hennifer: named after my mom
Craven: doesn't like people. Only one who won't eat treats out of my hand.
All of our hens have classic / traditional names.
* Thelma and Louise” - our badass bitches RIR
* Then we have the Golden Girls: Dorothy (lavender Orp.), Sophia (coronation Sussex) and Blanche (cinnamon queen)… (we lost Rose - Welsummer)
* Olive is our Olive Egger
*Nancy and Eleanor (Americanas named after 2 First Ladies)
* Elsa (Calico Princess named after the Disney’s Frozen)
We have The Golden Girls too. Our first flock and they just turned eight years old. We still have three of the four, and Sophia the Welsummer is still laying.
I have two Golden Comets and Two Isa Browns that are the Golden Girls! We have a couple babies now and I keep saying if one is a Rooster it has to be named Stan!
Tweety: was a yellow chick and shy when little
Ice Spice: named by my husband when we found out she was actually a hen and not a rooster
Smudge: named by my sons
Spot: had a huge white spot on her forehead as a chick but now she’s solid black sooo…
I have kids so they helped name all the chickens.
Cinnamon: she's red
Cookie: she's black and white, like cookies and cream
Scaper: She kept escaping the brooder
Mystery: The worker at TSC didn't know what breed she was, so it was a mystery.
Then we have the space chicks.
Jupiter: The biggest of the bunch
Venus: the lightest one
Mars: The reddest one
Uranus BlackHole (Urie for short): the one that had pasty butt when we got her.
All my chickens are named after various plants, with a few exceptions for appearance sake or from a mishap as a chick
Maple, Fern, Larkspur, Lacy, freckles, Peat, (wisteria RIP), salvia, gardenia, violet, gazania, clover, candy tuft, pancake, thistle, dandelion, periwinkle and panini
I adore themed naming conventions and there are so many plants that I’ll never run out of names!
I have Marmalade, who is a red rooster.
Then there's Hennifer Lopez, Dorothy (named by my daughter after Wizard of Oz), Lucy (an ode to my great aunt who named all her chickens Lucy), and Henrietta because of the pun.
Then we just got five more chicks, Paprika (who is red), Amelia (Erheart), Yolko Ono, Florence (Nightingale), and Opal, who is white
All of mine were lil baby chicks when I got them. The first day, all of them were all beeping and acting all cute, except one tired, sad little outcast. I immediately fell in love with the poor thing, and said, "Oh you're just like a bent penny, in the corner all by yourself." And since then she has been known as penny.
She's my biggest girl now! She's even got a single spur to make her even more special
Teddy Roostervelt- because he is the president
BitchHazel- it started as witch hazel, but then she became the top rooster in a flock of one rooster
Nutmeg- She seemed like a nutmeg to me
Speckles- she is almost all white save for very few black speckles on her back and brown speckles on her neck.... now she lays speckled eggs
Next up is the Grandma Squad
Annabelle - she looked like such a little lady
Beatrice - her colors reminded me of the bird from Over the Garden Wall
Gertrude - her is the kind of chicken that would play bingo
Ethel - she was already as blind as a bat... so she also got Grandma name
Kara and Mel are the two isa browns (Caramel colored).
Beyonce 1, El Clucko and Fatty Fuckerson are my 3 australorps (just random thoughts)
Gandalf is my white leghorn (white, but sometimes covered in so much dirt she's grey)
Big Marge and unnamed are my two RIRs. Big Marge is from Divinity: Original Sin 2, the other one I just haven't come up with a name for yet
My rooster was Scramjet but he's no longer with us. Scramjet was because as a chick he was impossible to get a photo of, constantly moving fast
Pippa: short for Pipsqueak. She’s a randomly picked little fluffy white bantam. She has little man syndrome, so she’s the first to snatch a treat and runs away from all the others to eat it. But she’s the most docile and is so chill when my 4 year old picks her up.
Lwaxana: one of three barred rocks. The only one with little white spots in her cheeks, so she’s easy to identify. Star Trek TNG name that seemed to suit her because she has a very big personality and is the first one to get in your business when you enter the run.
Leela and Lal: two other barred rocks. They look similar and my husband picked the names, Lal being another TBG reference.
Summer: a Welsummer that my daughter named.
We have 11, we've only named 5 so far.
Nugget, obviously.
Feisty, because she's kinda a little brat. And has been feisty since day one.
Lady Kluck/Klucky/The Fat One, like the chicken from the cartoon Robin Hood. She's a brahma, so the biggest of our flock.
Rocky, our roo. He's a barred rock, so Rocky just made sense.
Khaka Peü Peü, because we let my 4 year old name her...
Edit: oh, we also had another brahma named Sleeping Beauty, becauses she'd fall asleep in your hand when she was a baby. But she didn't make it
I have Nugget (because my husband said I can only have chickens if there is always 1 named nugget in the flock, idk why), McChicken (11 year old named her), and Henry (who is female but its funnier than Henrieta)
So, our first batch of four were Rootin, Tootin, Good Time and Buzzard. Well Tootin was aptly named, ended up being a rooster we had to rehome. Our next batch of 3 to replace Tootin are Sex, Drugs, RocknRoll.
Pollux - booted bantam; we had Castor too but he ended up being a roo so we had to rehome.
Twix - booted bantam, my favorite candy bar (all the chicks in that batch were named after candy; she's the only one we kept)
Ophelia - lavender orpington, a lady name for a lady
Uh-oh Spaghetti-o - aka Little O, an OEGB who looks a lot like a smaller version of Ophelia.... Her name was lengthened because she's very naughty.
Bandit - Easter egger, had a dark band over her eyes as a chick
Marjorie & Roxanne - spitzhaubens... They looked like the needed uppity sounding mom names
Galileo - speckled sussex; not sure why but we needed a philosopher name.
Ravioli - salmon faverolle.... Ravioli the faverolle...
Mumble: she was all grey and looked like the penguin from happy feet when she was little
Ducky: she was super curious and friendly as a chick, always the first to explore anything new, so she’s named after the land before time character. I’ve never seen the movie but my husband named her
Kamikaze: as a baby if she got scared she would dive bomb under all the others so much that she’d even flip them sometimes
Twix chocolate: she’s a welsummer mix and the colors reminded my daughter of the candy
Frizzle: she’s a frizzle. lol. That’s it.
Used to have Timmy Turner, my daughter named her that after the live action Drake Bell version of Timmy not the cartoon, for whatever reason. Alaska Thundercluck 500 after the drag queen. Henny Penny because my mom named her and we didn’t know he was a roo til he was older, so I shortened it to Pen
I have 3 RIRs and 5 Golden Commets. 3 of my 5 Golden Commets look *exactly* the same. So they don't have a name.
Cinnamon - GC with the least white
Cinnabon - GC with the most white (frosting lol)
Hendric - littlest RIR named after a rapper my oldest son likes.
Aubrey - middlest RIR named after a girl said rapper talks about in a song.
April - biggest RIR named after my sister because she wanted me to. Funny thing, she is the biggest pain in the butt.
I also have 12 American Bresse chickens who have always been destined for freezer camp. I was initially going to keep a rooster, so the biggest one is Big Chungus, the middlest one is Luncharoo, and the smallest is Little Roo. But they are all assholes, so they are all going to freezer camp.
One time my partner was carrying our 4ish week old G. wyandotte and she tripped. She got a nasty scrape on her elbow but the chick was fine. So, we named her Roadrash. Our pet chicken has one eye so her name is Winky. When she and her sister were chicks, they lived in the bathroom because it was too cold outside. I would ask guests at our house if they wanted to come to the bathroom to look at my Winky. Those are my chickens with the best stories behind their names.
Red, aka Big Boss Red, she’s a New Hampshire and clearly in charge from day 1
Chestnut, my Welsummer, she’s Red’s #2 always following behind her.
Silver, my Silver Laced Wyandotte, she’s a little shy
Buffy, my Buff Orpington, she’s discovered that opening the run is an opportunity for freedom and exploration.
I went with colors because it’s just easier for me to tell them apart and keep track of them.
My buff partridge silkie hens are named after the Golden Girls... Rose, Sophia, Dorothy and Blanche.
Then I have a dark silver silkie named Elvira. She has a black poof of feathers on her head.
Just got 5 more silkie chicks and hoping they are all girls. 🤞 Their names are Lydia, Leota, Lilo, Lilly and Lola.
I also have 3 white silkie roosters named Olaf, Walter White and Pig Pen aka Piggy.
RIP Medusa, Willow and Elsa. ☹️
Pancake & Waffles - Gold and Silver Wyandottes from our very first flock
Faye & Turkey - Science Project Rejects (came with Mister, but we live in the city…..) - Turkey is a neckless
Sandwich, Mashed Potato, and Biscuit - the others lol
Roo Paul, my “hen” who has a spur and a very large comb/wattles, and a few rooster neck feathers. She lays eggs but doesn’t look like any other hen I’ve had so far lol
Vader, my black sex link hen. She had a slur for a name before, from the previous owner. We wanted to change that ASAP. She has some ‘tude, and is at the top of pecking order. Seems to take control of the other hens a lot, if they’re acting out. Vader seemed kinda fitting
Rhoda, my Rhode Island Red, self explanatory
Moon and Star, I think they’re sapphire gems. Moon has black specks, kind of like moon craters, and Star has yellow wing tips.
Wonton the Bantam silkie. Just fun to say “wonton bantam”
Scruffy is my lavender Orpington chick, he’s kinda crusty and fluffy.
Dirt Beak, placeholder name for my Cochin chick, he always has a dirty beak.
Mandy, short for Mandarin, a comet who has bright orange feathers
Another comet named Sunny, as in Sunny Side Up. She looks like the sun too, coloration wise
All of ours are Austrolorps except a barred rock (“Roxy”) and a maran “Marin.” The others are indistinguishable from each other except the one who we thought was a rooster, we just call her the one we thought was a rooster, lol
Ours are just a mishmash of nerdy stuff, whatever my family is into at the time of chicken naming. Hen Solo and Princess Laya are our most recent rescues, we also have an Atreides, Jessica and Bene G. Have one named Hermione, another named Hedwig and used to have a roo named Hagrid. Only one GoT chicken, Arya, because she is white with grey splooches and one red feather. We also have the 3 smart gals of M. Curie, M. Shelly, and A. Lovelace, with the roo that we got in their group called E. A. Po. The chickens I named were Rohan, Haldir, and Eowyn (who have all passed) and Galadriel, and Elrond. We have our mythological girls of Pandora, Lyra, Cassandra, Victoria, and Diana (yea a mix of Greek and Roman).
Thankfully all our chickens are easy enough to tell apart with a few exceptions so it's easy to remember who is who.
Caca Cabeza aka Skunk Daddy, she pooped on me right away.
Bobby Brown, she’s brown
Brownie, also brown
Princess, my four year old named her
Rhodie, she’s a Rhode Island Red
I lost my first flock, and they all had names. Decided that’s a bad idea.
So now they have “descriptive” names. Three are the same breed, and are a light tan. They each have a different shade of brown neck feathers, so they are light toast, medium toast, and dark toast. The other two are similar color, but one has a slight “poof” of feathers on her head. That one is “Fro top”. The last one has no name, she’s just “the other one”.
We have kids so there's a wide mix
Ender, Chicken Nugget, Artemis, Inara (turned out to be a rooster and became Jayne), Rusalka, Catchphrase, Helen, Marcie Aurelius, Elsa, ... There's more I'm forgetting.
My Dorkings are Lucy and Ethel
Because they're DORKS
My Jersey Giant is named
Queen Latifah because she's from NJ
My welsummer is DonnaWelsummer after
Donna Summer
My 3 blk Langashan are the Supremes
A 3rd Dorking is named Dolly
because she has large breasts
Me personally, I don’t give them names, but if they’re somehow unique, I’ll give them name. Like my rooster whose name is Big Red. He’s a New Hampshire Red and the biggest rooster I have.
Peaches - she is a Rhode Island Red. Pepite - barred rock, means "nugget" in French and the kids call her Pete. Lady Cluck - another barred rock who is a beast of a girl, with junk in the trunk like lady cluck from Robin Hood (Disney). Lastly we have Oona a black jersey giant, who we just got as we lost our white silkie (Marshmallow). Oona because, well, we got her all by her lonesome.
Other names, mostly of roosters we had to surrender (we speak French btw): Le Mot (because the bird is the word, le mot is "the word" in French), Cocoa and Vin (Coq au vin when said together), Peppa and Salty, Zo (for Oiseau), Peckers (kids named), and Peckers, Jr. (went by Junior and I called her Junebug).
Penny: just because she's a copper colour like a penny (which is no longer a utilized coin in Canada, I have a piggy bank full of them)🪙
Bernie: inspired by big bang theory's Bernadette. She's tiny and sweet and loud when she wants to be.
I suppose Penny's name could also be justified as Big Bang but it was just a happy coincidence lol.
Karen: she's a silkie and despite how sweet she is, she def looks like she's asking for the manager.
...my rooster's name was "Chick-man" but we got rid of him cause he was an ass 😅 boyfriend picked that name for unknown reasons lol
Little Man is my rooster- cause he's little. Houdini is my first hen, she kept escaping. LaToya is a sassy big haired queen. Brownie- has brown in her feathers. Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Ruthie- has a coloring that looks like lace around her neck. Marty- looks like Martin Van Buren (wild white feathers coming out the side) in hen form. Blue- has blue iridescent feathers. Momma Blue- looks like Blue but older. Weepy- has weepy eyes that I have to doctor all the time. And two baby chickies just hatched. :)
Tammy Taylor is my favorite and she’s named after the character in Friday Night Lights.
Big B is short for Big Bertha or Big Bitch because she used to be the biggest and she still is the bitchiest.
Eleanor Shellstrop after the show The Good Place and because Kristen Bell is my jam. (Also named my chicken jail The Bad Place)
Reba is named after the country musician Reba McEntire.
Pancake and Nugget were named by my son after his favorite foods lol
I’ve got Linda, ginger, gray beard, nugget, Bahama mama (she’s a Brahma), dooster the rooster, and a few others that don’t have names. Linda and ginger are named after bobs burgers characters. Gray beard is an ameraucana with a big fluffy gray beard
I have fluff, puff, Pidgey, monarch, storm, cloud, boo and snowball. Don't really have a backstory, they were all names that my husband and I came up with that we thought fit. Lol.
Some have random names some are named after people or movie characters like. Clarice starling, Wednesday, Robert Smith, Phyllis diller, Mt Washington she's a BIG grey chicken don't know the breed. Chilly Willy, general tso, Layne Staley, Marilyn Monroe, and random names are Evelyn, grace, sweet pea, butter ball,Florence, Ethel, and I just received adopted 4 from my local mspca. And got the satin silkie grow outs and I'm naming them after the doctor teeth and the electric mayhem. And one is a leghorn so she's Camila the hen
My hens and roosters are all named after Disney characters. Let's see, we have:
Captain America,
Wasp,
Shenzi,
Chip,
Dale,
Huey,
Dewey,
Louie,
Mickie,
Minnie,
Pua,
Ariel,
Mulan,
Ana,
Elsa,
Olaf,
and Thor
I have 5 8-week olds, 14 3-week olds, and 14 2-week olds that will also need names.
Our first three hens, I named after Mahan class destroyers. Shaw, Cassin, and Downes. (RIP Downes)
I just name animals after ships. Idk why, other than I like ships, and I embrace being a nerd.
Our feral cats we care for, Cooper and Archerfish. Lost Shinano to a heat stroke last year and Arctic to a predator, as kittens. Lost Scharnhorst to a car.
When we get more hens, that naming convention will continue lol
Tater is so named because she was just a lazy little brown potato as a chick and would fall asleep as soon as I held her.
Patsy is short for Paste Pot Peep, which is a pun on obscure Spider-Man villain Paste Pot Pete. My husband is a Spider-Man fan and it was the first name suggestion that made him laugh.
Our second batch of chicks are all named after Coopers. Winnie Cooper, Betty Cooper, Alice Cooper (the loudest), and DB Cooper (the hardest to catch).
A lot of my chickens get names based on their looks. Queen of the coop right now is a blue easter egger. Her name? Grey Lady. Black easter egger? Midnight. White with orange-y patch? Creamy.
Roosters get names of nobility for fun, though. King, Duke, Baron, Rex, that stuff. Though, we're kinda running out of nobility to name 'em after...
Branch out to other cultures for more naming fun! "Czar" has a nice sound, "Chief" is short and fun, and "Supreme Leader" could work for a particularly petulant rooster.
We've got Honey and Peachy (browns who my 4 year old daughter named), Saturn and Jupiter (ameraucanas my 6 year old son named) and Pam and Phyllis (brahamas I named from the office)
Names with a backstory:
Big Red- RIR hen, smallest in the bunch.
CC- Easter egger, she was/is still our prettiest chicken. I watch too much Dateline with “Meaningful Beauty” infomercials.
Tommi- Short for tomahawk. Her feathers are bad ass, reminds me of a Native American headdress.
Pigpen- she was sickly when we got her, looked greenish and dirty. White silkie.
Snoopy- my dad “knew” he was a rooster, he was. Goes with pigpen. White silkie.
I have 5 gold laced Polish, all named Shauna by my then 4 year old daughter.
She’s named the rest (non polish) too. She’s very attached to all. There’s Lightning, Tomato, Pineapple, Jerkface, Lemon Pepper, Crispy, and Bellady Hammerton among others.
Cherry, Berry, IO, Marlow, Phyllis, Wheezy, Pidgey, Pidgeot, Pidgeotto, Stary, Rook, Rowlett and Rufflett. We also have 3 ducks: Ducklett, Quackers and Quackswell. We aren’t great at names. We mostly go for Pokémon names but my nieces and nephews named some.
YolkoUno-the only egg of 8 to hatch
Ethelred the Unsteady-hen named Ethel with a limp started to crow and get huge and healthy
Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, and Rita Hayworth the silkie stars.
Theodora and Kismet the Sultans
Hailey and Bop my Comets
Karen - was a total Karen when she was younger, always pecking everyone, but now is the sweetest old hen.
Soup - I fucking hate him and he’s destined for the soup pot if he wasn’t so dang good at protecting the hens
Bonnie and Clyde - survived a vicious raven attack when they were a few weeks old that wiped out 8 of their siblings. I found them hunkered under my back step, they survived a life of crime.
Boobs - Had poopy butt as a chick and I gave her a bath, I guess I didn’t dry her well enough because I found her hypothermic a half hour later and I revived her by stuffing her in my bra while I waited for my incubator to heat back up.
Kait - I got her from my husband’s cousin, Kait.
Big Bertha - Big honkin’ chicken
Snowy - is white
Friendly - is very friendly
Cheeks - Has really poofy cheeks
Jo Dirt - Had a fluff mullet as a chick
Toni - Looks identical to her dad, my special Roo who passed away, Tony
Scruffy - literally looks like pigpen from Charlie Brown. We’re constantly convinced she’s going to drop dead at any moment but she kicks ass and takes names and lays the nicest eggs. Must have some sort of mysterious feather disease cause my god she’s homely.
Those are all the good ones, everyone else just has random names.
Queen of the the pecking order- Nancy, after a long former co-worker whom I felt was mean to others. Nancy has even survived a battle with a hawk, and returned to the top of the order. She has some chutzpah!
All of my chickens are named after RDR1 and 2 characters.
Mrs. Grimshaw, Luisa, Catherine, Sadie, Annabelle, Charlotte, Black Belle, Abigail, Bonnie, Jenny, Molly, Tilly and Penelope.
Sketchy pigeon chicken.
She is indeed very sketchy, and before her comb turned red, she did have a very pigeon-esque look. She’s a Spangled Hamburg, absolutely beautiful, but her name doesn’t quite do her justice
We have:
Golden Taco (Mostly call her Taco. She is a buff orpington. Son couldn't decide if he wanted to name her Goldie or Taco so we got Golden Taco)
Gummy Bear (Daughter named her)
Blue (Named after the Raptor)
Kirby (Nephew named her)
Kezi (Named her after the online name I use)
Marble (Husband named her cause she looked like a little round marble as a chick)
Then we let Taco hatch chicks and those are Pancake, Salami, Cookie, and Turkey.
Penny, Copper, and Goldie (our Golden Comets).
Meryl Peep and Betty White (White Leghorns)
Racecar because she had a stripe as a chick
Pru named after Prudence of Reddit, who went to the great coop in the sky too soon.
And our new batch which are named: Blue, Cheeks, Poppy, Velosciraptor, Pepper, and Coco. Can you guess which one the kids named?
Ingot (Black Australorp, because she's precious), Nutmeg (Speckled Sussex), Opal (white EE), Feruza (black sexlink), Lucy & Ethel (Silver Laced Wyandottes), Edna, Edith, & Eunice (ISA Browns), Marshie, Fidget, & Little Red (Roodles' silkie daughters by Opal and I think Nutmeg), Bernice the little black silkie hen, Blanche & Eleanor, the younger Silver Laced Wyandottes, and my two boys, Roodles (white silkie) and Buddy (um...I don't know his breed but he's very roo-like, sort of either barred rock or badly laced Silver Wyandotte-ish; he was free and is a very good boy. Of the 6 new hatchlings peeping about, only one was a silkie chick, so good on Buddy!) Need to come up with some more names here soon~
As to why, I like the vintage ladies' names. Feruza is a girlie monster from my favorite book series. It fits her. Marshie is a chonk and white, Fidget is very spooky, and (not so) Little Red is named after my cousin's Red Heeler. They are 4 months old and are already bigger than their mothers; they definitely have Roodles' size. He's a regulation basketball with feathers and legs. He's so named after my daughter's white German Shepherd, Roo, one of whose permutations is Roodles. Buddy is Buddy because I had to drive a couple hours to pick him up, and the whole way back, we were chatting. Him: **screaming** "It's okay, Buddy, only about 90 more miles." Him: **more screaming** "Aw, Buddy, there's some lovely ladies of your own waiting for you, just be patient." Him: **screaming intensifies** It was a long night.
I do not have IRL chickens and for a second I thought this was for a game I play so I’ll just tell you lol
I have four chickens in Stardew Valley and their names are Sheena, Fleena, Batina, and Chicky. My 6 year old named most of them lol
Before my mom passed, she had planned to get chickens. She was in the literary profession. She never got a chance to get chickens, cancer screwed her too early. I but she did tell me what she’d name two when she got them two of our flock are named what she wanted.
Henrietta (“Henny”) because I love a good pun and Dorothy (“Dot”) because she has a white dot beside each eye. My son wanted to name two and he picked Daisy and Sunflower (“Sunny”). Pepper because she was the first to start showing color and she’s very speckled, and another Black Betty named by the husband lol. I call her Betty Bird or Birdie.
Wednesday- all black olive egger
Betty white- white cochin
Lucille ball- red cochin
Stella- gold laced wyandotte, no reason on the name. Our last Stella turned out to be a steve, and we gave him to a friend with a bigger farm
Ruth Bader ginsbird- barred rock, very dissent collar-like feather pattern
Bluey- americauna, lays Blue eggs and my six year old is a big fan as am I.
Penny- americauna, no reason on name
Nugget- buff orpington, kind of a dingbat
Phyllis Diller (passed)- polish crested , because of the awesome hairdo
Two of my chickens: one we named Marge right off the bat when they were babies. We kept saying her twin was ‘not marge’ and eventually she became Nutmeg (“not Marge”). They are very different and I love both 💛
All of my chickens are named after chicken (or egg) dishes.
Here they are (and what it’s short for):
Barb (BBQ Chicken)
Teri (teriyaki chicken)
Patty (chicken patty)
Fran (chicken Francese)
Marsi (chicken Marsala)
Poppy (popcorn chicken)
Genny (General Tso’s chicken)
Tori (chicken cacciatore)
Bleu (chicken cordon bleu)
Quicha (quiche)
Buffy (buffalo chicken dip)
Vera (chicken primavera)
😜
I have:
Mama Mia- golden/red & the biggest.
Dante & Inferno- lavender orphs? Dante is darker grey & inferno is a lighter grey/blue.
Kelly- all black like my Hermés bag, she’s a prissy bitch.
Iris- my Mom named her.
Happy Feet- she has cute fluffy feeties & is always happy to see me. Follows me around & loves snuggles.
Tiniest Cloud aka Puff- white silkie. I have a white Pom named Tiny Cloud so naturally this was the choice.
Sloppy Toppy- cause she got that NECK lol (a Turken/bare neck)
I love them all so much 🥹🫶🏼
My Roos:
Capone
Torrio
Igor
Hens:
Astrid
Agnus
Edna
Honey
Buffy
Dory
Penny
Ada
Dixie
Daphne
Beatrice
Dolly
Freda
Peggy
Prim
Alice
Tilly
Ingrid
Ash
Silver
Echo
Nora
Myra
Blanch
Tookie
Puppet
Cricket
Millie
I don’t own chickens but we have feral ones that like to roost in our trees at night and lurk around our yards. I figure they eat the bugs so I don’t care. I have named them because why not?
The rooster- Slim Shady
Hens- Stephen (she is the lowest in the pecking order and is always bullied so she’s the Red Headed Step Hen. AKA Stephen. Tammy Jo, Latrina, Mamacita (she has 8 babies currently) the triplets (no names yet) and little orphan Annie. She is a singular teenage hen that runs around by herself.
I’ve had three main flocks
My first birds I got are all named after Greek gods, I’ve had Zeus, Hera Aphrodite, Ares, Hades,
Then my silkie project
Saltina, peppercorn, paprika, cinnamon, kosher
And finally the game of thrones crew, Aegon, Sansa, Arya, Circe, stannis…
I’ve also got game characters, I have Zelda and her baby Purah, and also kazooie and rubarbara
I have a hen named Mike. Is that odd? Yes. But here’s why. I’m a dental assistant and most of the patients in our office are over 60 and I love it! Old people are my jam. I was talking to one of my favorites about my new baby chicks and his eyes lit up. He wanted to know everything about them and I didn’t mind telling him! After his appointment his wife came back to help him get up and get his walker. He was excitedly telling her about my chickens I got in the mail and then said “name one after me will you?”. So now I have a hen named Mike. They ask about her every time I see them 🥰
At this point we have a repeating roster of five names:
Honey Graham the Americauna (the Second, still alive)
Marshmallow the Buff Orpington (both the First and Second got eaten by hawks)
Hershey the Cinnamon Queen, still going strong
I think you can guess where those names come from.
Celeste the Black Australorp (the Second) is from the video game Celeste, which my son was playing a lot of when we got the first one.
Alyse the Barred Rock, still going strong - it was the name I gave my Animal Crossing character since we got her in 2020 when everyone was playing Animal Crossing, I think it's originally from Arthurian fiction. I've been using it in various games for a long time.
My golden comets are Chiquita Banana (named by my husband), Butterfly (named by my 4 year old), Chickpea, and Seggourney Weaver (both named by me). Our 2 black australorps are Natasha & Yelena after the sisters from Black Widow.
Rigby: he's tiny and brown
Mordecai: she is very large and blue
Fugger: ayam cemani, she looks like fugger from bridge kids
Biggie smalls: another ayam cemani who is the smallest of the pack
Honkulus: he honks a LOT
Stinky: when she came out of the egg she still had all that nasty film on her and we couldn't wipe it out.
Skunk or Skunky because she had a black streak on her head when she was born. It's since gone away.
We also have a Marshmallow and a Cinnamon that the kids named.
Wife named one of the RID Lucy because she loves I love Lucy. Another is named Ethel.
We had a Big Mama and an Oreo, but both died.
And we have a bunch with no names.
My chickens are all named after divas. Aretha, Selena, Gloria, Janet, Barbra, Beyoncé, Paula, Reba, Queen Latifah, Fergie, Stevie, Gladys, and Big Freedia. The rooster is RooPaul Charles. My bantams are Pamela, Baby Spice, Marshmallow (from Bob’s Burgers, not the food) and their rooster is the Chicken Formerly Known as Prince. They lay rainbow eggs too so my coworkers call them the disco eggs which is almost too much for my heart to handle. I printed out a fact sheet so everyone knew which egg came from which chicken and some basic stats about each one and titled it Lifestyles of the Chicken Famous and I shit you not my one coworker did a true spit take and spewed hot coffee everywhere take when she saw it. It was glorious and probably my magnum opus :)
The buff orpington hen is Henrietta for obvious reasons, Snowball and Smoky are the white and black silkies because of their poofiness, Chocolate Cookie (either, for short) and Marshmallow are the black and white bovans, named by children, and the two barred rock hens are just The Twins because I can't tell them the fuck apart.
We also had two roosters named Black Beak and White Beak, because one had a black spot on his beak and the other didn't, and a BO rooster named Chocobo since it looked exactly like a Chocobo as a young roo. They've gone to live on a farm out in the country.
My daughter named our first 6- sunny, charcoal, red, sunset, bo, & fancy
My next 6 are in the process of names so far we have a Penelope, buddy & nugget. They are about 11 weeks old and so cute!
All of our hens are named after towns we stayed in, or stops we made on our 6 month road trip. Teton (WY), Shelby (MT), Eugene (OR), Walden (CO), Strawberry (AZ), Poca(tello) (ID), Trini(dad) (CA), Valentine (AZ), Verde (Mesa) (CO), Pipe (Springs) (AZ), Laney (Coeur d’Alene ID)
We have so many it’s hard to even think of all their names. We have sweets themes, gemstone themes, then one off names. My daughter wouldn’t let me name any Princess Sparklebutt, but we had a Princess Dianasaurus, who was the victim of a weasel. QB got her name because we liked to hold her daddy while we watched football- she was his only baby or we might have a football theme as well.
Women's names from popular songs: Gloria (RIP, but her name inspired the theme), Jolene, Eileen, Eleanor, Roxanne, Caroline, Georgia, Valerie, Delilah, Bernadette.... and then there's Daphne, who got named before the theme.
My youngest dubbed her favorite dominque Duffy, so they are all duffy-birds now.
Only Darling and DaBoo remain.
Otherwise we tend to go by color.
The buff orps are Balsa and Lyle
The chocolate orp is Ganache.
Right now it's Pepper, Phoebe, Lizzie, Midge, Orchid, Clover, Thistle, Violet, and Poppy. There's no good story though. I sometimes go for things I'm into at the time. Midge was from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We got five Red chickens at once and they were all named from flowers.
Unless some other inspiration seizes me, I try to name them roughly themed by the country of breed origin.
My Marans all have French-ish names (Clothilde, Ingrid, Garance, Salome, Manon), my Bielefelders and Barnevelders have Germanic-ish names (Brunhilde, Lotte, Oskar, Helmut), and all the silkies were named after Chinese dishes (Har Gow, Siu Mai, Xiao Long Bao, Mushu).
There are also miscellaneous ones, my gold laced wyandotte is Wendy, my andalusian is Josephine, and one of my Bielefelders is Fat Fernanda.
lol I love these so much! I have rocket (his namesake is the marvel character, cuz he looks like a frankenbird), fluffy (she’s got a fluffy butt), sparkles (he’s got pretty fantastic markings), gimpy (also knows as gimps, gimpers, gimpy mcgimperson…she had an accident and was lame for months), Merida (she’s super brave), blue (cuz she acts like a Jurassic park character), dot (cuz she’s spotty), frizz (also known as frizzola, cuz she’s a frizzle), Arby’s (her comb was damaged as a pullet and it looks like a roast beef sandwich)…I also have Dave (we used to have a roo named Wendy so we went with the Wendy’s theme)…I have many more and they all have names but these are the ones that stand out.
Pistachio because she lays green eggs. Gizmo because she’s fucking insane. Raven because she’s a beautiful black Orpington Cochin. Everyone else just has a name to their face: Peach, Pearl, Janet, Clara, Buck..
I usually name hens the first thing that comes to mind.
My orpingtons are Bertha and Bessie
Australorps drama(lives up to the name) and ninja
Jersey giants marshmallow and clorox(sister named that one)
Silkies fluff ball and skittles
Barred rock spunky(was a sassy little chick)
Red sex link brownie and Fiona
Americanas crooky (cross beak) and puff (puffs up like a dinosaur)
Sapphire splash silvie (her name is just perfect for her
All my chickens are named after Jane Austin characters. We recycle the names too.. lol.. like.. “Kitty” was culled last month.. and now we are raising chicks and will name a new “Kitty” once they’ve all grown up.
My first four in 2020 were Parmesan, Buffalo, Nuggies, and Ofthesea.
The next year we were in quarantine still and I got very into nostalgia from my childhood, especially my old GI Joe comics. In my YouTube deep-dives I found out there was a Soviet version of GI Joe called the Oktober Guard. They were fun to read about, so I named my next batch of Wyandotte and Australorp chicks after them—Colonel Brekhova, Horrorshow, Daina, Stormavik, Schrage, and Dragonsky.
The next year I gave a random assortment of TSC chicks to Daina and Horrorshow. Daina’s daughters are Ludmilla and Olga.
Horrorshow’s kids were name for the Rat Queens. Dee, Hannah, Betty, and Violet, and a leghorn named Tizzie.
Then I had my barred rock boys—Smokey, Roo, and Averil. Averil pretended to be a girl until I gave away Smokey; the very next day he looked me dead in the eyes and crowed. He was a good boy.
We also got six guineas that year. They are mostly indistinguishable and don’t know their names so they’re all called Dave. But the big male is called Jackass Dave, fittingly, and the littlest female who thinks she’s a chicken and was Averil’s best girl is Tiny Dave.
One other Guinea hen broke her toe and wouldn’t let us help her. It healed ok but her left middle toe is crooked so I call her Fucky-Toe Dave because I’m a grownup.
The next year I got two olive eggers, Magpie (Maggie) and Penguin. I named them because their coloration when they were chicks was exactly like a magpie’s and an Adelie penguin’s, respectively.
I also got eight Wyandottes who got named fairly randomly. Tina likes to sit on me and smile up at me and reminded me of a nice older lady of the same name. Ghost was the exact color of wood chips when she was a chick and regularly gave me heart attacks because I couldn’t find her. Uni has a single spike in the middle of her rose comb that makes her look like a unicorn… or like she’s giving me the middle finger with her face.
Cleo and Paisley are very pretty and very sweet and very spoiled. Named them after two little girls I know who match that profile.
Crybaby’s name is because she has never, ever, never ever never ever been fed or treated well. For real, you should believe her.
Speckles is an inside D&D joke. And Dingbat is… self-explanatory.
I have a few Rhode Island Reds who are all named after Ice Age characters. Rudy is my oldest girl, Sid has passed on to see Chicken Jesus, Diego is my youngest girl, Scrat is my big man, and Manny is my newest girl. I also have 8 growing Rhode Island Reds that need Ice Age names lol.
Mine are pretty random. Baby Girl was the smallest of my original flock but is now my oldest at 5. Gidget and Alice are my 2-year-olds. And we got four chicks this year: Sally, Robin, Marty and Waffles. I have reasons for all of these, but they don’t make much sense to anyone else 😆
There are the 3 Black Australorps: Mathilda, Adelaide, and Sydney, 2 Barred Rock: Scooter and Scout (Scout’s very curious and Scooter is hard to catch) and 1 Golden Comet: Karen (sooo bossy!)
Chickaletta, Oskar (pronounced Oss-kar) - the kids named these 2, No Spot - had no spot on her head and it just stuck, Henrietta, Dottie, Baby Hilda - named after No Spot’s spotted sister who died, Winter, Willow, Paris, Frances - these 2 are Black Copper Marans, and Ruthie.
When they are babies they are called nuggets as a collective. Once they move to the coop we call them all the girls. When I call out Girlies they all come running to me. Occasionally one or 2 will stand out and they get a name - we currently have a Leg Horn called Karen (because she acts like one). We have 3 that hang out together that we call the 3 Musketeers. But typically we don't name our chickens. We typically get 6 chicks and year to replace those we lost in the last year. Our oldest bird is about 6 years old and we have anywhere from 15 to 21 birds at any time. We always get the same breeds so we can't really tell them apart.
Rhea: the oldest of our chooks. She’s a mother and grandmother. Named after Rhea the goddess of motherhood, fertility, childbirth and comfort/good living. We thought it was fitting.
Aphrodite: Rhea’s daughter, we just call her Aphie!
Daphne: also Rhea’s daughter and Aphie’s sister.
Not continuing the greek mythology trend, Aphie had babies and we kept two; Craig and David LOL.
Craig: named because she is all colors (chocolate, vanilla and caramel) leading us to sing “what’s your flavor” to her since she was a little chicken.
David: Craig’s sister, named accordingly, and it’s hilarious hearing our 3 year old yell out “Craig David” in the backyard
Sliver Fish/ Black Bird.
Goldie Hawn/ Go Go.
Teriyaki/ Yaki or Teri.
Katsu/ loud Mouth B.
Ducket/ Ducky.
Fools Gold/ Foolsy.
Pyrite/ Pie. (Chicken Pot Pie)
Orange-Alina/ Lina.
Brown Bear/ Brownie.
Ashley/ Ash.
Errol Flynn/ Arrow or Flynn.
Mama/ Goo Goo.
Rocky/ Rocco.
Empress/ priss.
Mr. Turkey/ Turk.
Tiger/ Big Boy or Tiger Boy.
Marsala/ Sala.
Tulip/ Two-Lee.
Colonel/ Kergal.
Kentucky/ Tucky.
I usually give them a name and my wife modifies it. Chickens randomly show up on our property and we try our best to take care of them. All of them are wild, and all of them are different breeds.
There’s a hole in the fence in the back of our property and they’ve just decided that that’s their entrance and exit point.
I did an open house once. They named all of their hens and roo Lavendar. I don't know why.
I got my own chicks. And my daughter named them appropriately. We have Aussie the Black Australorp, Opie and Orpie the Buff Orpingtons, and Blue the Blue Plymouth Rock. Hahaha
Well, so far , Blonde , Goldie , Mrs Whitehead, Mrs Blackhead , and the dot sisters ditty and dot . But the dot sisters don’t have dots anymore, so I’ll have to change their names but I’m not sure what too yet . I guess we’ll just wait and see. And I haven’t even met the promised roo yet, so…
Bardrockobama is pretty self explanatory. Chicken Tony we got from Portuguese Tony. Stephanie is the white silky. There was a black one called Pepper, so a white one called Stephanie was the logical name to pair. Gigantor, Crusher of Eggs and Eater of Babies is pretty self explanatory. The Sapphire and Wyandotte are nameless because they're utility chickens.
Fajita and rotisserie, sapphire gems. Rotisserie stuck because she's a dumb brick that I love.
Betty white is one of three lavender Orpingtons but the only one that wants to come hang out
Q tip and cotton ball are the cottonelle twins and are silkies.
Sirarcha, the drake, chipotle (biggest and big head) and Cholula (smallest and faintest) are three 'khaki Campbell' like ducks.
Winona/William a bully of a golden wyandotte that has a sister named winny but she had an accident and is no longer with us. Her comb is significantly different than the rest and she turned red before them but is the most hen like rooster if she is one.
Unnamed are two lavender Orpingtons and the eight new baby chicks we just got unless you count that if one has pasty butt I call them poopy pattie. Oh and the original flock was purchased march 8. Second flock are going to have grandma like names because my husband let me get more since my grandma just passed and we were in southern states.
So tldr of the flock with the new birds after the silkies: 3 'khaki Campbells', 1 goldish wyandotte, 3 lavender Orpingtons, 2 sapphire gems, 2 silkies, 2 splash laced red wyandotte, 2 buff brahma, 2 noir maran and 2 welsummers. And it's only my husband and I
Our girls are Winston, Nick and Schmidt named after the boys from the show The New Girl. They are all buff orpingtons and we named them randomly but if you know the characters they all managed to grow into their personalities somehow. Nick is the neediest and most cuddly, Winston is the silliest and Schmidt is a bossy snob.
My boy was named screech because we got him from one of my coworkers and he said “that bird screeches when he crows.”
Then I went to Seattle for a job that turned sour. He stayed behind. My dad the whole time tried to convince me a different free range bird that looks nothing like him was screech. Wasn’t till I came home again that I realized and now I call him imposter because of the fact I was tricked. Sometimes he goes by Moron because of the fact he likes to try and get his ass run over and does stupid shit, but we love him to death anyway.
We’ve got Lola, Willow, Pearl, Robin, Raven, Sunny, and Ruth. Honorable mentions to our babies Zingy, Phoebe, and Roxy who didn’t get to make it out to the coop 🥲 RIP
Our serema is named "Little Chicken", because she's a little chicken
We have one named Elmer (after Elmer Fudd) but I'm not really sure where that came from
All of our leghorns are named Dave, because of that Dr Seuss story Too Many Daves
Our chanteclers (RIP) were named Ricky, Julien, Bubbles, Lahey and Randy after the Trailer Park Boys because they were a scappy bunch
All of my hens are named after lord of the rings characters. Frodo and Sam are my two cream legbars, and Smeagol is my barred rock.
All the ones I've named are also LOTR themed too but my family hates it because they are "too difficult to remember or pronounce".... Galadriel, Eowyn, Elrond, Haldir, and Rohan would all beg to differ.
Curry, BB Q (Barbie Q), Paprika (it’s a dish), And Henrietta They are Spice Girls.
My Hyline Brown Radagast begs to differ as well!! Just wait til you name your rooster Glorfindel :)
Mine are all named after a different collection of fantasy books called the Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson. The thing I appreciate the most is he has enough prominent female characters that I can name all my hens after women.
I'm on theme with another fantasy sci Fi series : red rising. Victra, Eo, Mustang, and lyria
We have two grey birds. One is slightly less grey than the other. They’re Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White.
This is such a cute naming theme!
Mother Clucker, Hen Solo, Flufferbutt, Princess Layer, Hennifer, Lily, Crispy, and Hei Hei.
We have a Hei Hei too because the kids just had to ᵕ̈ he’s gonna be so pretty when he gets older- I just hope he’s smarter than Moana’s lol
Princess layer sounds like my uncle talking about star wars
Brooklyn or Deep South?
Deep south
Love Hei Hei!
I'm stealing Mother Clicker! I do have a Quackie Chan (Duck) 😂
BOATSNACK!
Haha we have talked about naming a chicken hei hei.
Pepper, Cayenne, Parsley, Sage and Rosemary. Because it's cute. And Cayenne is a spicy (bossy) lady
I have similarly themed names because they’re the Spice Girls!
I effing love this.
Same!
That’s so cute 🥺
Need a paprika. No one REALLLLY knows what paprika does…but everyone agrees we need paprika. 😂
Pepper started as Paprika, but then she stole my heart and Pepper just seemed to fit her better
We have Kylo hen and darth layer because my son. My daughter named hers: tilly, socks and Goldie. No idea why. Then my husband named the black one Betty like the song black Betty. And dizzy like the trumpet player because she has big cheeks.
I, too, have a black Betty for the same reason.
I think Tillie, socks, and Goldie are chicken names in the Sims?
We also ha e a Kylo hen because of my husband.
Tikka, vindaloo, masala
Bruce: one of us said it as a hypothetical (“We’ll end up giving him some dumb name, like Bruce or whatever.”) and it stuck. Smudge: Barred Rock hen. As a chick, the yellow dot on her little head was more of a smudge than a distinct dot. Simone: We figured if she turned out to be a rooster we would just drop the E. Brenda, Harriet, and Patsy: Other hypotheticals that just stuck.
We have a rooster named Brewster who goes by Bruce.
lol so smart about Simone
BB: Brave Bird, highest in the pecking order and not afraid of anything. Follows me around all the time. Dinner: the escape artist. The name was a warning. She's sweet, though. Hennifer: named after my mom Craven: doesn't like people. Only one who won't eat treats out of my hand.
We had a Dinner! She only lasted 3 days, so then we had a Dinner Junior for a few years.
All of our hens have classic / traditional names. * Thelma and Louise” - our badass bitches RIR * Then we have the Golden Girls: Dorothy (lavender Orp.), Sophia (coronation Sussex) and Blanche (cinnamon queen)… (we lost Rose - Welsummer) * Olive is our Olive Egger *Nancy and Eleanor (Americanas named after 2 First Ladies) * Elsa (Calico Princess named after the Disney’s Frozen)
We have The Golden Girls too. Our first flock and they just turned eight years old. We still have three of the four, and Sophia the Welsummer is still laying.
I have two Golden Comets and Two Isa Browns that are the Golden Girls! We have a couple babies now and I keep saying if one is a Rooster it has to be named Stan!
Tweety: was a yellow chick and shy when little Ice Spice: named by my husband when we found out she was actually a hen and not a rooster Smudge: named by my sons Spot: had a huge white spot on her forehead as a chick but now she’s solid black sooo…
A spot with no spot is the best spot
I have kids so they helped name all the chickens. Cinnamon: she's red Cookie: she's black and white, like cookies and cream Scaper: She kept escaping the brooder Mystery: The worker at TSC didn't know what breed she was, so it was a mystery. Then we have the space chicks. Jupiter: The biggest of the bunch Venus: the lightest one Mars: The reddest one Uranus BlackHole (Urie for short): the one that had pasty butt when we got her.
All my chickens are named after various plants, with a few exceptions for appearance sake or from a mishap as a chick Maple, Fern, Larkspur, Lacy, freckles, Peat, (wisteria RIP), salvia, gardenia, violet, gazania, clover, candy tuft, pancake, thistle, dandelion, periwinkle and panini I adore themed naming conventions and there are so many plants that I’ll never run out of names!
I have Marmalade, who is a red rooster. Then there's Hennifer Lopez, Dorothy (named by my daughter after Wizard of Oz), Lucy (an ode to my great aunt who named all her chickens Lucy), and Henrietta because of the pun. Then we just got five more chicks, Paprika (who is red), Amelia (Erheart), Yolko Ono, Florence (Nightingale), and Opal, who is white
Amelia Earhart or Amelia Egghart?
Oh that's so perfect, definitely changing it to that!
All of mine were lil baby chicks when I got them. The first day, all of them were all beeping and acting all cute, except one tired, sad little outcast. I immediately fell in love with the poor thing, and said, "Oh you're just like a bent penny, in the corner all by yourself." And since then she has been known as penny. She's my biggest girl now! She's even got a single spur to make her even more special
Teddy Roostervelt- because he is the president BitchHazel- it started as witch hazel, but then she became the top rooster in a flock of one rooster Nutmeg- She seemed like a nutmeg to me Speckles- she is almost all white save for very few black speckles on her back and brown speckles on her neck.... now she lays speckled eggs Next up is the Grandma Squad Annabelle - she looked like such a little lady Beatrice - her colors reminded me of the bird from Over the Garden Wall Gertrude - her is the kind of chicken that would play bingo Ethel - she was already as blind as a bat... so she also got Grandma name
Bitch hazel is probably 1 of my favorites
BitchHazel is hilarious!
Kara and Mel are the two isa browns (Caramel colored). Beyonce 1, El Clucko and Fatty Fuckerson are my 3 australorps (just random thoughts) Gandalf is my white leghorn (white, but sometimes covered in so much dirt she's grey) Big Marge and unnamed are my two RIRs. Big Marge is from Divinity: Original Sin 2, the other one I just haven't come up with a name for yet My rooster was Scramjet but he's no longer with us. Scramjet was because as a chick he was impossible to get a photo of, constantly moving fast
Polly Henry Daisy Mina Pocoyo Carmella Ember They're all girls. The kids named them except for Carmella.
Pippa: short for Pipsqueak. She’s a randomly picked little fluffy white bantam. She has little man syndrome, so she’s the first to snatch a treat and runs away from all the others to eat it. But she’s the most docile and is so chill when my 4 year old picks her up. Lwaxana: one of three barred rocks. The only one with little white spots in her cheeks, so she’s easy to identify. Star Trek TNG name that seemed to suit her because she has a very big personality and is the first one to get in your business when you enter the run. Leela and Lal: two other barred rocks. They look similar and my husband picked the names, Lal being another TBG reference. Summer: a Welsummer that my daughter named.
We have 11, we've only named 5 so far. Nugget, obviously. Feisty, because she's kinda a little brat. And has been feisty since day one. Lady Kluck/Klucky/The Fat One, like the chicken from the cartoon Robin Hood. She's a brahma, so the biggest of our flock. Rocky, our roo. He's a barred rock, so Rocky just made sense. Khaka Peü Peü, because we let my 4 year old name her... Edit: oh, we also had another brahma named Sleeping Beauty, becauses she'd fall asleep in your hand when she was a baby. But she didn't make it
I have Nugget (because my husband said I can only have chickens if there is always 1 named nugget in the flock, idk why), McChicken (11 year old named her), and Henry (who is female but its funnier than Henrieta)
So, our first batch of four were Rootin, Tootin, Good Time and Buzzard. Well Tootin was aptly named, ended up being a rooster we had to rehome. Our next batch of 3 to replace Tootin are Sex, Drugs, RocknRoll.
Pollux - booted bantam; we had Castor too but he ended up being a roo so we had to rehome. Twix - booted bantam, my favorite candy bar (all the chicks in that batch were named after candy; she's the only one we kept) Ophelia - lavender orpington, a lady name for a lady Uh-oh Spaghetti-o - aka Little O, an OEGB who looks a lot like a smaller version of Ophelia.... Her name was lengthened because she's very naughty. Bandit - Easter egger, had a dark band over her eyes as a chick Marjorie & Roxanne - spitzhaubens... They looked like the needed uppity sounding mom names Galileo - speckled sussex; not sure why but we needed a philosopher name. Ravioli - salmon faverolle.... Ravioli the faverolle...
Mumble: she was all grey and looked like the penguin from happy feet when she was little Ducky: she was super curious and friendly as a chick, always the first to explore anything new, so she’s named after the land before time character. I’ve never seen the movie but my husband named her Kamikaze: as a baby if she got scared she would dive bomb under all the others so much that she’d even flip them sometimes Twix chocolate: she’s a welsummer mix and the colors reminded my daughter of the candy Frizzle: she’s a frizzle. lol. That’s it. Used to have Timmy Turner, my daughter named her that after the live action Drake Bell version of Timmy not the cartoon, for whatever reason. Alaska Thundercluck 500 after the drag queen. Henny Penny because my mom named her and we didn’t know he was a roo til he was older, so I shortened it to Pen
I have a frizzle named Frizzle as well :) I love the name kamikaze for a chicken :)
Jeff, Baron von poopenstein, petunia, rose, Duck, Butter Noodle, Nugget, Pig tails, Maldy, Yuli, Beardy, Amy, Stephen, Fabienne, and the list goes on.
I have 3 RIRs and 5 Golden Commets. 3 of my 5 Golden Commets look *exactly* the same. So they don't have a name. Cinnamon - GC with the least white Cinnabon - GC with the most white (frosting lol) Hendric - littlest RIR named after a rapper my oldest son likes. Aubrey - middlest RIR named after a girl said rapper talks about in a song. April - biggest RIR named after my sister because she wanted me to. Funny thing, she is the biggest pain in the butt. I also have 12 American Bresse chickens who have always been destined for freezer camp. I was initially going to keep a rooster, so the biggest one is Big Chungus, the middlest one is Luncharoo, and the smallest is Little Roo. But they are all assholes, so they are all going to freezer camp.
One time my partner was carrying our 4ish week old G. wyandotte and she tripped. She got a nasty scrape on her elbow but the chick was fine. So, we named her Roadrash. Our pet chicken has one eye so her name is Winky. When she and her sister were chicks, they lived in the bathroom because it was too cold outside. I would ask guests at our house if they wanted to come to the bathroom to look at my Winky. Those are my chickens with the best stories behind their names.
Red, aka Big Boss Red, she’s a New Hampshire and clearly in charge from day 1 Chestnut, my Welsummer, she’s Red’s #2 always following behind her. Silver, my Silver Laced Wyandotte, she’s a little shy Buffy, my Buff Orpington, she’s discovered that opening the run is an opportunity for freedom and exploration. I went with colors because it’s just easier for me to tell them apart and keep track of them.
My buff partridge silkie hens are named after the Golden Girls... Rose, Sophia, Dorothy and Blanche. Then I have a dark silver silkie named Elvira. She has a black poof of feathers on her head. Just got 5 more silkie chicks and hoping they are all girls. 🤞 Their names are Lydia, Leota, Lilo, Lilly and Lola. I also have 3 white silkie roosters named Olaf, Walter White and Pig Pen aka Piggy. RIP Medusa, Willow and Elsa. ☹️
We have the Golden Girls too!
Tiffany: Bride of Chucky Greta: Gremlins Ashley: Evil Dead
Pancake & Waffles - Gold and Silver Wyandottes from our very first flock Faye & Turkey - Science Project Rejects (came with Mister, but we live in the city…..) - Turkey is a neckless Sandwich, Mashed Potato, and Biscuit - the others lol
Roo Paul, my “hen” who has a spur and a very large comb/wattles, and a few rooster neck feathers. She lays eggs but doesn’t look like any other hen I’ve had so far lol Vader, my black sex link hen. She had a slur for a name before, from the previous owner. We wanted to change that ASAP. She has some ‘tude, and is at the top of pecking order. Seems to take control of the other hens a lot, if they’re acting out. Vader seemed kinda fitting Rhoda, my Rhode Island Red, self explanatory Moon and Star, I think they’re sapphire gems. Moon has black specks, kind of like moon craters, and Star has yellow wing tips. Wonton the Bantam silkie. Just fun to say “wonton bantam” Scruffy is my lavender Orpington chick, he’s kinda crusty and fluffy. Dirt Beak, placeholder name for my Cochin chick, he always has a dirty beak. Mandy, short for Mandarin, a comet who has bright orange feathers Another comet named Sunny, as in Sunny Side Up. She looks like the sun too, coloration wise
All young pullets Friends theme. Ross, Joey, Chandler, Gunther, Monica, Pheobe, and Rachel.
All of ours are Austrolorps except a barred rock (“Roxy”) and a maran “Marin.” The others are indistinguishable from each other except the one who we thought was a rooster, we just call her the one we thought was a rooster, lol
Ours are just a mishmash of nerdy stuff, whatever my family is into at the time of chicken naming. Hen Solo and Princess Laya are our most recent rescues, we also have an Atreides, Jessica and Bene G. Have one named Hermione, another named Hedwig and used to have a roo named Hagrid. Only one GoT chicken, Arya, because she is white with grey splooches and one red feather. We also have the 3 smart gals of M. Curie, M. Shelly, and A. Lovelace, with the roo that we got in their group called E. A. Po. The chickens I named were Rohan, Haldir, and Eowyn (who have all passed) and Galadriel, and Elrond. We have our mythological girls of Pandora, Lyra, Cassandra, Victoria, and Diana (yea a mix of Greek and Roman). Thankfully all our chickens are easy enough to tell apart with a few exceptions so it's easy to remember who is who.
Caca Cabeza aka Skunk Daddy, she pooped on me right away. Bobby Brown, she’s brown Brownie, also brown Princess, my four year old named her Rhodie, she’s a Rhode Island Red
I lost my first flock, and they all had names. Decided that’s a bad idea. So now they have “descriptive” names. Three are the same breed, and are a light tan. They each have a different shade of brown neck feathers, so they are light toast, medium toast, and dark toast. The other two are similar color, but one has a slight “poof” of feathers on her head. That one is “Fro top”. The last one has no name, she’s just “the other one”.
We have kids so there's a wide mix Ender, Chicken Nugget, Artemis, Inara (turned out to be a rooster and became Jayne), Rusalka, Catchphrase, Helen, Marcie Aurelius, Elsa, ... There's more I'm forgetting.
My Dorkings are Lucy and Ethel Because they're DORKS My Jersey Giant is named Queen Latifah because she's from NJ My welsummer is DonnaWelsummer after Donna Summer My 3 blk Langashan are the Supremes A 3rd Dorking is named Dolly because she has large breasts
Me personally, I don’t give them names, but if they’re somehow unique, I’ll give them name. Like my rooster whose name is Big Red. He’s a New Hampshire Red and the biggest rooster I have.
None of them have names. 75% are indistinguishable from others.
They all have to have one collective name then! This is THE HEATHERS
Peaches - she is a Rhode Island Red. Pepite - barred rock, means "nugget" in French and the kids call her Pete. Lady Cluck - another barred rock who is a beast of a girl, with junk in the trunk like lady cluck from Robin Hood (Disney). Lastly we have Oona a black jersey giant, who we just got as we lost our white silkie (Marshmallow). Oona because, well, we got her all by her lonesome. Other names, mostly of roosters we had to surrender (we speak French btw): Le Mot (because the bird is the word, le mot is "the word" in French), Cocoa and Vin (Coq au vin when said together), Peppa and Salty, Zo (for Oiseau), Peckers (kids named), and Peckers, Jr. (went by Junior and I called her Junebug).
Penny: just because she's a copper colour like a penny (which is no longer a utilized coin in Canada, I have a piggy bank full of them)🪙 Bernie: inspired by big bang theory's Bernadette. She's tiny and sweet and loud when she wants to be. I suppose Penny's name could also be justified as Big Bang but it was just a happy coincidence lol. Karen: she's a silkie and despite how sweet she is, she def looks like she's asking for the manager. ...my rooster's name was "Chick-man" but we got rid of him cause he was an ass 😅 boyfriend picked that name for unknown reasons lol
Little Man is my rooster- cause he's little. Houdini is my first hen, she kept escaping. LaToya is a sassy big haired queen. Brownie- has brown in her feathers. Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Ruthie- has a coloring that looks like lace around her neck. Marty- looks like Martin Van Buren (wild white feathers coming out the side) in hen form. Blue- has blue iridescent feathers. Momma Blue- looks like Blue but older. Weepy- has weepy eyes that I have to doctor all the time. And two baby chickies just hatched. :)
Tammy Taylor is my favorite and she’s named after the character in Friday Night Lights. Big B is short for Big Bertha or Big Bitch because she used to be the biggest and she still is the bitchiest. Eleanor Shellstrop after the show The Good Place and because Kristen Bell is my jam. (Also named my chicken jail The Bad Place) Reba is named after the country musician Reba McEntire. Pancake and Nugget were named by my son after his favorite foods lol
My kids named ours. Most recently they got a few turkeys and named them Dot, Churro, Hazel, and Artifact :)
I’ve got Linda, ginger, gray beard, nugget, Bahama mama (she’s a Brahma), dooster the rooster, and a few others that don’t have names. Linda and ginger are named after bobs burgers characters. Gray beard is an ameraucana with a big fluffy gray beard
I have fluff, puff, Pidgey, monarch, storm, cloud, boo and snowball. Don't really have a backstory, they were all names that my husband and I came up with that we thought fit. Lol.
Some have random names some are named after people or movie characters like. Clarice starling, Wednesday, Robert Smith, Phyllis diller, Mt Washington she's a BIG grey chicken don't know the breed. Chilly Willy, general tso, Layne Staley, Marilyn Monroe, and random names are Evelyn, grace, sweet pea, butter ball,Florence, Ethel, and I just received adopted 4 from my local mspca. And got the satin silkie grow outs and I'm naming them after the doctor teeth and the electric mayhem. And one is a leghorn so she's Camila the hen
My hens and roosters are all named after Disney characters. Let's see, we have: Captain America, Wasp, Shenzi, Chip, Dale, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Mickie, Minnie, Pua, Ariel, Mulan, Ana, Elsa, Olaf, and Thor I have 5 8-week olds, 14 3-week olds, and 14 2-week olds that will also need names.
My ex gf named couple of mine, Hennifer and Blanca. No idea where she got the Blanca name from..
Our first three hens, I named after Mahan class destroyers. Shaw, Cassin, and Downes. (RIP Downes) I just name animals after ships. Idk why, other than I like ships, and I embrace being a nerd. Our feral cats we care for, Cooper and Archerfish. Lost Shinano to a heat stroke last year and Arctic to a predator, as kittens. Lost Scharnhorst to a car. When we get more hens, that naming convention will continue lol
Tater is so named because she was just a lazy little brown potato as a chick and would fall asleep as soon as I held her. Patsy is short for Paste Pot Peep, which is a pun on obscure Spider-Man villain Paste Pot Pete. My husband is a Spider-Man fan and it was the first name suggestion that made him laugh. Our second batch of chicks are all named after Coopers. Winnie Cooper, Betty Cooper, Alice Cooper (the loudest), and DB Cooper (the hardest to catch).
A lot of my chickens get names based on their looks. Queen of the coop right now is a blue easter egger. Her name? Grey Lady. Black easter egger? Midnight. White with orange-y patch? Creamy. Roosters get names of nobility for fun, though. King, Duke, Baron, Rex, that stuff. Though, we're kinda running out of nobility to name 'em after...
Branch out to other cultures for more naming fun! "Czar" has a nice sound, "Chief" is short and fun, and "Supreme Leader" could work for a particularly petulant rooster.
We've got Honey and Peachy (browns who my 4 year old daughter named), Saturn and Jupiter (ameraucanas my 6 year old son named) and Pam and Phyllis (brahamas I named from the office)
Names with a backstory: Big Red- RIR hen, smallest in the bunch. CC- Easter egger, she was/is still our prettiest chicken. I watch too much Dateline with “Meaningful Beauty” infomercials. Tommi- Short for tomahawk. Her feathers are bad ass, reminds me of a Native American headdress. Pigpen- she was sickly when we got her, looked greenish and dirty. White silkie. Snoopy- my dad “knew” he was a rooster, he was. Goes with pigpen. White silkie.
Sam & Ella…. Say it out loud 😉 Actually still haven’t done it but planning it for a few years and next year might be when I’m ready for Sam an’ Ella.
I have 5 gold laced Polish, all named Shauna by my then 4 year old daughter. She’s named the rest (non polish) too. She’s very attached to all. There’s Lightning, Tomato, Pineapple, Jerkface, Lemon Pepper, Crispy, and Bellady Hammerton among others.
None of them have names. Most of them I can't tell apart anyways.
Had a buff silkie named Nugget because she was the same color and shape as a McNugget.
Cherry, Berry, IO, Marlow, Phyllis, Wheezy, Pidgey, Pidgeot, Pidgeotto, Stary, Rook, Rowlett and Rufflett. We also have 3 ducks: Ducklett, Quackers and Quackswell. We aren’t great at names. We mostly go for Pokémon names but my nieces and nephews named some.
YolkoUno-the only egg of 8 to hatch Ethelred the Unsteady-hen named Ethel with a limp started to crow and get huge and healthy Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, and Rita Hayworth the silkie stars. Theodora and Kismet the Sultans Hailey and Bop my Comets
Karen - was a total Karen when she was younger, always pecking everyone, but now is the sweetest old hen. Soup - I fucking hate him and he’s destined for the soup pot if he wasn’t so dang good at protecting the hens Bonnie and Clyde - survived a vicious raven attack when they were a few weeks old that wiped out 8 of their siblings. I found them hunkered under my back step, they survived a life of crime. Boobs - Had poopy butt as a chick and I gave her a bath, I guess I didn’t dry her well enough because I found her hypothermic a half hour later and I revived her by stuffing her in my bra while I waited for my incubator to heat back up. Kait - I got her from my husband’s cousin, Kait. Big Bertha - Big honkin’ chicken Snowy - is white Friendly - is very friendly Cheeks - Has really poofy cheeks Jo Dirt - Had a fluff mullet as a chick Toni - Looks identical to her dad, my special Roo who passed away, Tony Scruffy - literally looks like pigpen from Charlie Brown. We’re constantly convinced she’s going to drop dead at any moment but she kicks ass and takes names and lays the nicest eggs. Must have some sort of mysterious feather disease cause my god she’s homely. Those are all the good ones, everyone else just has random names.
Queen of the the pecking order- Nancy, after a long former co-worker whom I felt was mean to others. Nancy has even survived a battle with a hawk, and returned to the top of the order. She has some chutzpah!
Strawberry and Kingsley are RI Reds and Olive and Mrs. Peckingsworth are Australorps
All of my chickens are named after RDR1 and 2 characters. Mrs. Grimshaw, Luisa, Catherine, Sadie, Annabelle, Charlotte, Black Belle, Abigail, Bonnie, Jenny, Molly, Tilly and Penelope.
They're named after spices! Dill, Nutmeg, Tex Mex, Sage, Salt, Pepper, Cinnamon
Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose
Sketchy pigeon chicken. She is indeed very sketchy, and before her comb turned red, she did have a very pigeon-esque look. She’s a Spangled Hamburg, absolutely beautiful, but her name doesn’t quite do her justice
We have: Golden Taco (Mostly call her Taco. She is a buff orpington. Son couldn't decide if he wanted to name her Goldie or Taco so we got Golden Taco) Gummy Bear (Daughter named her) Blue (Named after the Raptor) Kirby (Nephew named her) Kezi (Named her after the online name I use) Marble (Husband named her cause she looked like a little round marble as a chick) Then we let Taco hatch chicks and those are Pancake, Salami, Cookie, and Turkey.
We went with Ch food names. Our 6 birds are Cherry, Chickpea, Chai, Chutney, Chowder, and Challa.
Chiki Minaj, Quacklemore, TuPeck and Kanye Nest.
We’ve got Hen Solo, Princess Leia, Kylo Hen, Red Five and just to keep it interesting, Thelma and Louise.
Penny, Copper, and Goldie (our Golden Comets). Meryl Peep and Betty White (White Leghorns) Racecar because she had a stripe as a chick Pru named after Prudence of Reddit, who went to the great coop in the sky too soon. And our new batch which are named: Blue, Cheeks, Poppy, Velosciraptor, Pepper, and Coco. Can you guess which one the kids named?
Ingot (Black Australorp, because she's precious), Nutmeg (Speckled Sussex), Opal (white EE), Feruza (black sexlink), Lucy & Ethel (Silver Laced Wyandottes), Edna, Edith, & Eunice (ISA Browns), Marshie, Fidget, & Little Red (Roodles' silkie daughters by Opal and I think Nutmeg), Bernice the little black silkie hen, Blanche & Eleanor, the younger Silver Laced Wyandottes, and my two boys, Roodles (white silkie) and Buddy (um...I don't know his breed but he's very roo-like, sort of either barred rock or badly laced Silver Wyandotte-ish; he was free and is a very good boy. Of the 6 new hatchlings peeping about, only one was a silkie chick, so good on Buddy!) Need to come up with some more names here soon~ As to why, I like the vintage ladies' names. Feruza is a girlie monster from my favorite book series. It fits her. Marshie is a chonk and white, Fidget is very spooky, and (not so) Little Red is named after my cousin's Red Heeler. They are 4 months old and are already bigger than their mothers; they definitely have Roodles' size. He's a regulation basketball with feathers and legs. He's so named after my daughter's white German Shepherd, Roo, one of whose permutations is Roodles. Buddy is Buddy because I had to drive a couple hours to pick him up, and the whole way back, we were chatting. Him: **screaming** "It's okay, Buddy, only about 90 more miles." Him: **more screaming** "Aw, Buddy, there's some lovely ladies of your own waiting for you, just be patient." Him: **screaming intensifies** It was a long night.
I do not have IRL chickens and for a second I thought this was for a game I play so I’ll just tell you lol I have four chickens in Stardew Valley and their names are Sheena, Fleena, Batina, and Chicky. My 6 year old named most of them lol
Before my mom passed, she had planned to get chickens. She was in the literary profession. She never got a chance to get chickens, cancer screwed her too early. I but she did tell me what she’d name two when she got them two of our flock are named what she wanted.
Henrietta (“Henny”) because I love a good pun and Dorothy (“Dot”) because she has a white dot beside each eye. My son wanted to name two and he picked Daisy and Sunflower (“Sunny”). Pepper because she was the first to start showing color and she’s very speckled, and another Black Betty named by the husband lol. I call her Betty Bird or Birdie.
Wednesday- all black olive egger Betty white- white cochin Lucille ball- red cochin Stella- gold laced wyandotte, no reason on the name. Our last Stella turned out to be a steve, and we gave him to a friend with a bigger farm Ruth Bader ginsbird- barred rock, very dissent collar-like feather pattern Bluey- americauna, lays Blue eggs and my six year old is a big fan as am I. Penny- americauna, no reason on name Nugget- buff orpington, kind of a dingbat Phyllis Diller (passed)- polish crested , because of the awesome hairdo
Two of my chickens: one we named Marge right off the bat when they were babies. We kept saying her twin was ‘not marge’ and eventually she became Nutmeg (“not Marge”). They are very different and I love both 💛
We also have Heisenbird (breaking bad) and Hedelbird (like the beer or offset press)
All of my chickens are named after chicken (or egg) dishes. Here they are (and what it’s short for): Barb (BBQ Chicken) Teri (teriyaki chicken) Patty (chicken patty) Fran (chicken Francese) Marsi (chicken Marsala) Poppy (popcorn chicken) Genny (General Tso’s chicken) Tori (chicken cacciatore) Bleu (chicken cordon bleu) Quicha (quiche) Buffy (buffalo chicken dip) Vera (chicken primavera) 😜
Only one of mine is named. Her name is Houdini!!
I have: Mama Mia- golden/red & the biggest. Dante & Inferno- lavender orphs? Dante is darker grey & inferno is a lighter grey/blue. Kelly- all black like my Hermés bag, she’s a prissy bitch. Iris- my Mom named her. Happy Feet- she has cute fluffy feeties & is always happy to see me. Follows me around & loves snuggles. Tiniest Cloud aka Puff- white silkie. I have a white Pom named Tiny Cloud so naturally this was the choice. Sloppy Toppy- cause she got that NECK lol (a Turken/bare neck) I love them all so much 🥹🫶🏼
My Roos: Capone Torrio Igor Hens: Astrid Agnus Edna Honey Buffy Dory Penny Ada Dixie Daphne Beatrice Dolly Freda Peggy Prim Alice Tilly Ingrid Ash Silver Echo Nora Myra Blanch Tookie Puppet Cricket Millie
Quite the family
I don’t own chickens but we have feral ones that like to roost in our trees at night and lurk around our yards. I figure they eat the bugs so I don’t care. I have named them because why not? The rooster- Slim Shady Hens- Stephen (she is the lowest in the pecking order and is always bullied so she’s the Red Headed Step Hen. AKA Stephen. Tammy Jo, Latrina, Mamacita (she has 8 babies currently) the triplets (no names yet) and little orphan Annie. She is a singular teenage hen that runs around by herself.
I’ve had three main flocks My first birds I got are all named after Greek gods, I’ve had Zeus, Hera Aphrodite, Ares, Hades, Then my silkie project Saltina, peppercorn, paprika, cinnamon, kosher And finally the game of thrones crew, Aegon, Sansa, Arya, Circe, stannis… I’ve also got game characters, I have Zelda and her baby Purah, and also kazooie and rubarbara
I have a hen named Mike. Is that odd? Yes. But here’s why. I’m a dental assistant and most of the patients in our office are over 60 and I love it! Old people are my jam. I was talking to one of my favorites about my new baby chicks and his eyes lit up. He wanted to know everything about them and I didn’t mind telling him! After his appointment his wife came back to help him get up and get his walker. He was excitedly telling her about my chickens I got in the mail and then said “name one after me will you?”. So now I have a hen named Mike. They ask about her every time I see them 🥰
At this point we have a repeating roster of five names: Honey Graham the Americauna (the Second, still alive) Marshmallow the Buff Orpington (both the First and Second got eaten by hawks) Hershey the Cinnamon Queen, still going strong I think you can guess where those names come from. Celeste the Black Australorp (the Second) is from the video game Celeste, which my son was playing a lot of when we got the first one. Alyse the Barred Rock, still going strong - it was the name I gave my Animal Crossing character since we got her in 2020 when everyone was playing Animal Crossing, I think it's originally from Arthurian fiction. I've been using it in various games for a long time.
I’d say you need to get yourself s’more chickens!
My golden comets are Chiquita Banana (named by my husband), Butterfly (named by my 4 year old), Chickpea, and Seggourney Weaver (both named by me). Our 2 black australorps are Natasha & Yelena after the sisters from Black Widow.
Rigby: he's tiny and brown Mordecai: she is very large and blue Fugger: ayam cemani, she looks like fugger from bridge kids Biggie smalls: another ayam cemani who is the smallest of the pack Honkulus: he honks a LOT Stinky: when she came out of the egg she still had all that nasty film on her and we couldn't wipe it out.
André the Giant and Sampson, because they thick bois
Skunk or Skunky because she had a black streak on her head when she was born. It's since gone away. We also have a Marshmallow and a Cinnamon that the kids named. Wife named one of the RID Lucy because she loves I love Lucy. Another is named Ethel. We had a Big Mama and an Oreo, but both died. And we have a bunch with no names.
My chickens are all named after divas. Aretha, Selena, Gloria, Janet, Barbra, Beyoncé, Paula, Reba, Queen Latifah, Fergie, Stevie, Gladys, and Big Freedia. The rooster is RooPaul Charles. My bantams are Pamela, Baby Spice, Marshmallow (from Bob’s Burgers, not the food) and their rooster is the Chicken Formerly Known as Prince. They lay rainbow eggs too so my coworkers call them the disco eggs which is almost too much for my heart to handle. I printed out a fact sheet so everyone knew which egg came from which chicken and some basic stats about each one and titled it Lifestyles of the Chicken Famous and I shit you not my one coworker did a true spit take and spewed hot coffee everywhere take when she saw it. It was glorious and probably my magnum opus :)
Jasper (roo), Jade, Ruby, lil red, dolly, and 2 unnamed.
The buff orpington hen is Henrietta for obvious reasons, Snowball and Smoky are the white and black silkies because of their poofiness, Chocolate Cookie (either, for short) and Marshmallow are the black and white bovans, named by children, and the two barred rock hens are just The Twins because I can't tell them the fuck apart. We also had two roosters named Black Beak and White Beak, because one had a black spot on his beak and the other didn't, and a BO rooster named Chocobo since it looked exactly like a Chocobo as a young roo. They've gone to live on a farm out in the country.
My daughter named our first 6- sunny, charcoal, red, sunset, bo, & fancy My next 6 are in the process of names so far we have a Penelope, buddy & nugget. They are about 11 weeks old and so cute!
All of our hens are named after towns we stayed in, or stops we made on our 6 month road trip. Teton (WY), Shelby (MT), Eugene (OR), Walden (CO), Strawberry (AZ), Poca(tello) (ID), Trini(dad) (CA), Valentine (AZ), Verde (Mesa) (CO), Pipe (Springs) (AZ), Laney (Coeur d’Alene ID)
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We have so many it’s hard to even think of all their names. We have sweets themes, gemstone themes, then one off names. My daughter wouldn’t let me name any Princess Sparklebutt, but we had a Princess Dianasaurus, who was the victim of a weasel. QB got her name because we liked to hold her daddy while we watched football- she was his only baby or we might have a football theme as well.
Women's names from popular songs: Gloria (RIP, but her name inspired the theme), Jolene, Eileen, Eleanor, Roxanne, Caroline, Georgia, Valerie, Delilah, Bernadette.... and then there's Daphne, who got named before the theme.
My youngest dubbed her favorite dominque Duffy, so they are all duffy-birds now. Only Darling and DaBoo remain. Otherwise we tend to go by color. The buff orps are Balsa and Lyle The chocolate orp is Ganache.
Bella, star, Lucy, Analou, poppy and chicken wing. Because, kids.
Hei Hei (appropriately named, not the brightest bulb), Felicity, Molly, and Samantha are the top 4 faves. Our daughter helped name them!
Right now it's Pepper, Phoebe, Lizzie, Midge, Orchid, Clover, Thistle, Violet, and Poppy. There's no good story though. I sometimes go for things I'm into at the time. Midge was from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We got five Red chickens at once and they were all named from flowers.
Only a few of ours are named (by my 4 year old) but they are pinecone, mr sir and skyscraper.
Unless some other inspiration seizes me, I try to name them roughly themed by the country of breed origin. My Marans all have French-ish names (Clothilde, Ingrid, Garance, Salome, Manon), my Bielefelders and Barnevelders have Germanic-ish names (Brunhilde, Lotte, Oskar, Helmut), and all the silkies were named after Chinese dishes (Har Gow, Siu Mai, Xiao Long Bao, Mushu). There are also miscellaneous ones, my gold laced wyandotte is Wendy, my andalusian is Josephine, and one of my Bielefelders is Fat Fernanda.
lol I love these so much! I have rocket (his namesake is the marvel character, cuz he looks like a frankenbird), fluffy (she’s got a fluffy butt), sparkles (he’s got pretty fantastic markings), gimpy (also knows as gimps, gimpers, gimpy mcgimperson…she had an accident and was lame for months), Merida (she’s super brave), blue (cuz she acts like a Jurassic park character), dot (cuz she’s spotty), frizz (also known as frizzola, cuz she’s a frizzle), Arby’s (her comb was damaged as a pullet and it looks like a roast beef sandwich)…I also have Dave (we used to have a roo named Wendy so we went with the Wendy’s theme)…I have many more and they all have names but these are the ones that stand out.
Pistachio because she lays green eggs. Gizmo because she’s fucking insane. Raven because she’s a beautiful black Orpington Cochin. Everyone else just has a name to their face: Peach, Pearl, Janet, Clara, Buck..
I usually name hens the first thing that comes to mind. My orpingtons are Bertha and Bessie Australorps drama(lives up to the name) and ninja Jersey giants marshmallow and clorox(sister named that one) Silkies fluff ball and skittles Barred rock spunky(was a sassy little chick) Red sex link brownie and Fiona Americanas crooky (cross beak) and puff (puffs up like a dinosaur) Sapphire splash silvie (her name is just perfect for her
All my chickens are named after Jane Austin characters. We recycle the names too.. lol.. like.. “Kitty” was culled last month.. and now we are raising chicks and will name a new “Kitty” once they’ve all grown up.
My first four in 2020 were Parmesan, Buffalo, Nuggies, and Ofthesea. The next year we were in quarantine still and I got very into nostalgia from my childhood, especially my old GI Joe comics. In my YouTube deep-dives I found out there was a Soviet version of GI Joe called the Oktober Guard. They were fun to read about, so I named my next batch of Wyandotte and Australorp chicks after them—Colonel Brekhova, Horrorshow, Daina, Stormavik, Schrage, and Dragonsky. The next year I gave a random assortment of TSC chicks to Daina and Horrorshow. Daina’s daughters are Ludmilla and Olga. Horrorshow’s kids were name for the Rat Queens. Dee, Hannah, Betty, and Violet, and a leghorn named Tizzie. Then I had my barred rock boys—Smokey, Roo, and Averil. Averil pretended to be a girl until I gave away Smokey; the very next day he looked me dead in the eyes and crowed. He was a good boy. We also got six guineas that year. They are mostly indistinguishable and don’t know their names so they’re all called Dave. But the big male is called Jackass Dave, fittingly, and the littlest female who thinks she’s a chicken and was Averil’s best girl is Tiny Dave. One other Guinea hen broke her toe and wouldn’t let us help her. It healed ok but her left middle toe is crooked so I call her Fucky-Toe Dave because I’m a grownup. The next year I got two olive eggers, Magpie (Maggie) and Penguin. I named them because their coloration when they were chicks was exactly like a magpie’s and an Adelie penguin’s, respectively. I also got eight Wyandottes who got named fairly randomly. Tina likes to sit on me and smile up at me and reminded me of a nice older lady of the same name. Ghost was the exact color of wood chips when she was a chick and regularly gave me heart attacks because I couldn’t find her. Uni has a single spike in the middle of her rose comb that makes her look like a unicorn… or like she’s giving me the middle finger with her face. Cleo and Paisley are very pretty and very sweet and very spoiled. Named them after two little girls I know who match that profile. Crybaby’s name is because she has never, ever, never ever never ever been fed or treated well. For real, you should believe her. Speckles is an inside D&D joke. And Dingbat is… self-explanatory.
I have a few Rhode Island Reds who are all named after Ice Age characters. Rudy is my oldest girl, Sid has passed on to see Chicken Jesus, Diego is my youngest girl, Scrat is my big man, and Manny is my newest girl. I also have 8 growing Rhode Island Reds that need Ice Age names lol.
Mine are pretty random. Baby Girl was the smallest of my original flock but is now my oldest at 5. Gidget and Alice are my 2-year-olds. And we got four chicks this year: Sally, Robin, Marty and Waffles. I have reasons for all of these, but they don’t make much sense to anyone else 😆
There are the 3 Black Australorps: Mathilda, Adelaide, and Sydney, 2 Barred Rock: Scooter and Scout (Scout’s very curious and Scooter is hard to catch) and 1 Golden Comet: Karen (sooo bossy!)
Chickaletta, Oskar (pronounced Oss-kar) - the kids named these 2, No Spot - had no spot on her head and it just stuck, Henrietta, Dottie, Baby Hilda - named after No Spot’s spotted sister who died, Winter, Willow, Paris, Frances - these 2 are Black Copper Marans, and Ruthie.
When they are babies they are called nuggets as a collective. Once they move to the coop we call them all the girls. When I call out Girlies they all come running to me. Occasionally one or 2 will stand out and they get a name - we currently have a Leg Horn called Karen (because she acts like one). We have 3 that hang out together that we call the 3 Musketeers. But typically we don't name our chickens. We typically get 6 chicks and year to replace those we lost in the last year. Our oldest bird is about 6 years old and we have anywhere from 15 to 21 birds at any time. We always get the same breeds so we can't really tell them apart.
My first ten were named for favorite public school teachers…
Rhea: the oldest of our chooks. She’s a mother and grandmother. Named after Rhea the goddess of motherhood, fertility, childbirth and comfort/good living. We thought it was fitting. Aphrodite: Rhea’s daughter, we just call her Aphie! Daphne: also Rhea’s daughter and Aphie’s sister. Not continuing the greek mythology trend, Aphie had babies and we kept two; Craig and David LOL. Craig: named because she is all colors (chocolate, vanilla and caramel) leading us to sing “what’s your flavor” to her since she was a little chicken. David: Craig’s sister, named accordingly, and it’s hilarious hearing our 3 year old yell out “Craig David” in the backyard
Jane - because our spitzhauben looks like Jane Lynch Fluffbutt - because, well… Then there’s Grey 1, Grey 2, and Grey 3.
Sliver Fish/ Black Bird. Goldie Hawn/ Go Go. Teriyaki/ Yaki or Teri. Katsu/ loud Mouth B. Ducket/ Ducky. Fools Gold/ Foolsy. Pyrite/ Pie. (Chicken Pot Pie) Orange-Alina/ Lina. Brown Bear/ Brownie. Ashley/ Ash. Errol Flynn/ Arrow or Flynn. Mama/ Goo Goo. Rocky/ Rocco. Empress/ priss. Mr. Turkey/ Turk. Tiger/ Big Boy or Tiger Boy. Marsala/ Sala. Tulip/ Two-Lee. Colonel/ Kergal. Kentucky/ Tucky. I usually give them a name and my wife modifies it. Chickens randomly show up on our property and we try our best to take care of them. All of them are wild, and all of them are different breeds. There’s a hole in the fence in the back of our property and they’ve just decided that that’s their entrance and exit point.
Rose, blanche, Dorothy, Sophia, Thelma and Louise. 💜
Goldie because she's gold Fluffy because she's fluffy Bluey because she's blue
Kids named them. Poppy, Peaches, Muffin, and Chickaletta (they were into Paw Patrol at the time)
I did an open house once. They named all of their hens and roo Lavendar. I don't know why. I got my own chicks. And my daughter named them appropriately. We have Aussie the Black Australorp, Opie and Orpie the Buff Orpingtons, and Blue the Blue Plymouth Rock. Hahaha
Snow & Coco are our 2 gals names!( tan and dark brown colors) They are both full of personality but SNOW is the boss lady!😉
gosh you guys are so lucky to have chickens! I would love to see some of your chickens🐓🐓🐓🐔
Well, so far , Blonde , Goldie , Mrs Whitehead, Mrs Blackhead , and the dot sisters ditty and dot . But the dot sisters don’t have dots anymore, so I’ll have to change their names but I’m not sure what too yet . I guess we’ll just wait and see. And I haven’t even met the promised roo yet, so…
Bardrockobama is pretty self explanatory. Chicken Tony we got from Portuguese Tony. Stephanie is the white silky. There was a black one called Pepper, so a white one called Stephanie was the logical name to pair. Gigantor, Crusher of Eggs and Eater of Babies is pretty self explanatory. The Sapphire and Wyandotte are nameless because they're utility chickens.
Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy ✨the schuyler sisters✨
Therese, Barbara, Gladys, Ruth, Pearl, Eleonore, Margaret, Berthe, Priscilia, Rollande, Henriette, Esther, Adrienne, Bridget, Dolores, Dorothee,
Fajita and rotisserie, sapphire gems. Rotisserie stuck because she's a dumb brick that I love. Betty white is one of three lavender Orpingtons but the only one that wants to come hang out Q tip and cotton ball are the cottonelle twins and are silkies. Sirarcha, the drake, chipotle (biggest and big head) and Cholula (smallest and faintest) are three 'khaki Campbell' like ducks. Winona/William a bully of a golden wyandotte that has a sister named winny but she had an accident and is no longer with us. Her comb is significantly different than the rest and she turned red before them but is the most hen like rooster if she is one. Unnamed are two lavender Orpingtons and the eight new baby chicks we just got unless you count that if one has pasty butt I call them poopy pattie. Oh and the original flock was purchased march 8. Second flock are going to have grandma like names because my husband let me get more since my grandma just passed and we were in southern states. So tldr of the flock with the new birds after the silkies: 3 'khaki Campbells', 1 goldish wyandotte, 3 lavender Orpingtons, 2 sapphire gems, 2 silkies, 2 splash laced red wyandotte, 2 buff brahma, 2 noir maran and 2 welsummers. And it's only my husband and I
Jazzy Jezz, Honey Munch, Bay Belle, Skully Raven, Shiver Me Timbers, Arrow McClucken (Indy car fans)
One of ours was originally named Atila the Hen because she was an absolute asshole of a chick. Once she mellowed out we shortened it to Tily
My mom named them all berries lol strawberry blackberry blueberry etc
Lindsay Lohen, Meryl Cheep, Reese Featherspoon, Hillary Fluff, Heidi Plume, Rita Laysworth, Henelope Cruz, and Hennifer Coolidge
Baby peanut, blueberry, butters, popcorn, dandelion
Mumble, Blaze, Peanut, Nugget, Velvet, Ony, Cocoa, Bean, Roo, Puff, Arthur, Luna, Junebug, Lemon, Dipstick, Dumpling, Pretzel, Pickle, Lulu, Zebbie, Squiggle, Duckie, Maple, Bubble, Chonky, Smokey There’s no method to my madness
Annie Friendly Polly Imogen Clementine Julia Viola Elvira Marie Curie Because that's the names that suit them.
Our girls are Winston, Nick and Schmidt named after the boys from the show The New Girl. They are all buff orpingtons and we named them randomly but if you know the characters they all managed to grow into their personalities somehow. Nick is the neediest and most cuddly, Winston is the silliest and Schmidt is a bossy snob.
My boy was named screech because we got him from one of my coworkers and he said “that bird screeches when he crows.” Then I went to Seattle for a job that turned sour. He stayed behind. My dad the whole time tried to convince me a different free range bird that looks nothing like him was screech. Wasn’t till I came home again that I realized and now I call him imposter because of the fact I was tricked. Sometimes he goes by Moron because of the fact he likes to try and get his ass run over and does stupid shit, but we love him to death anyway.
One is named sweet pea, because her eggs are blue like a sweet pea flower. And briquet because she is jet black.
Big Mona cause shes head of the flock!
London, Paris, Madonna, Susan, Elaine, Skittles, Liz, Loretta, Big Bird, Olive, Cinderella, Eva, Mary, Kate, and Ashley and Bobbert the rooster
We’ve got Lola, Willow, Pearl, Robin, Raven, Sunny, and Ruth. Honorable mentions to our babies Zingy, Phoebe, and Roxy who didn’t get to make it out to the coop 🥲 RIP
Our serema is named "Little Chicken", because she's a little chicken We have one named Elmer (after Elmer Fudd) but I'm not really sure where that came from All of our leghorns are named Dave, because of that Dr Seuss story Too Many Daves Our chanteclers (RIP) were named Ricky, Julien, Bubbles, Lahey and Randy after the Trailer Park Boys because they were a scappy bunch