Name Ideas For Your Feathered Friends

You’ve done your research, set up the brooder, and bought food. You’ve waited so long and you’re finally ready for the big day! You’re going to get your first chicks!

love at first sight

When you get the fuzzy, peeping babies home, you instantly fall in love with them. Who can resist the way they race around the brooder, peeping, and scratching around in the bedding? You sit and watch in amazement at the activity and curiosity of the chicks who hatched just a couple of days beforehand. You lay your hand on the warm bedding in the brooder, and the babies run over to it, cuddle up, and fall asleep on it. Watching the sleeping mound of chicks on your hand fills your heart with pure joy.

chick fever

You visit with your chicks several times a day and each visit ends with them cuddling on your hand to sleep. You decide in those sweet moments that you will always have chickens in your life.  Pretty soon you start to decorate your house with chicken-themed décor. Every time you talk to someone, it’s about your chickens. Most of the posts on your social media accounts are pictures of your chickens. Before you know it chick fever sets in. The symptoms come on fast and strong. Every year the urge to get more chicks gets harder and harder to resist.

chicken math

Eventually you start to notice signs of chicken math happening in your coop. Even though you only planned on having a small flock of three hens, those three hens turn into six which turn into nine which turn into twelve. Before you know it, you find yourself surrounded by chickens. It’s okay. Even the strongest among us aren’t able to avoid chicken math. 

One day it happens. You’ve got your chicken fever and chicken math under control. You feel like you’re strong enough to walk into the feed store, look at the peeping chicks, and walk out without chicks. After a year with your chickens, your love for them has grown and your confidence in raising chickens has soared. You’ve gotten through all of the emergencies and surprises your chickens have thrown at you during your first year. You feel like you can handle anything. Especially, keeping your chicken fever under control. You confidently say to yourself you don’t need any more chickens so you aren’t going to get any more.

gateway livestock

There’s a reason chickens are considered the gateway livestock. As you are standing in the store watching the chicks, knowing you can resist getting any, something catches your eye. Ducklings! You know right away that you need ducks. So, instead of walking out of the store with chicks, you walk out with a carrier filled with ducklings. The next year, it’s goslings. The year after, it’s turkey poults. It just doesn’t stop. You were warned about chickens being the gateway livestock, but you thought it was a joke. You had no idea what getting those first three chicks would do to you. Deep down inside, you already know goats are in your future.

For many years, we’ve been fighting chick fever and we’ve seen firsthand what chicken math can do. We’ve had a lot of chickens, ducks, and other poultry and our flocks keep growing. We raised some of the birds from chicks and others came to us when they were older. No matter when or how they came into our lives, one thing is always the same. Everyone gets a name.

our favorite names

Trying to decide on perfect names can make your head spin. It’s a very important decision. You lay awake all night long thinking about what to name your birds. What are some good turkey names? What are some good duck names? How do you figure out the perfect names for your chickens?  Below are some of the names we’ve used for our birds. Hopefully, our names will give you ideas for the perfect names for yours. Hopefully, you’ll be able to get some sleep tonight.

Budgies

Annie
Avian
Blue
Clover
Cracker Jack
Keet
Moss
Para

Chickens

Ducks

Goose

Mellow

Pigeons

Kookalooka
Wedding Chicken

Quail

Turkeys

Opal
Prince Charming
Snow White