chicken names

I was reading the blog below - about chicken - and was amazed to see that each of them has a name...!

By the time one learn all the names theie egg-laying time will be over!

Plotting Success

 

As a child my wife used to spend long holidays on her uncle's farm near Crewkerne, Somerset every summer and would remember the names of all 50 or so cows from year to year.

 

Same here...as a child, we would go and see some relatives in the beautiful Tuscany countryside, and there would just be animals everywhere so it was inevitable to learn some of their names or nickname some of them.

 

I used to live in Crewkerne Scrunge

I've had Chickens called Rebok, Skybok, Digibok, Zybok, Eric, Sleepy the rooster & Dash.

 

I'll keep meaning to check out the name of the farm (not in her family any more). Would have been in the 1970's. Also had friends who's relatives had farms there where I stayed (1980's) before meeting Mrs Scrungee, but I can't remember much about those days.

We have a practice of re-naming our hens with replacement male names after they stop laying, using those of whoever in the village we think they most look like.