I am looking for funny food names to name my soon to hatch chicks. Names like KFC, the Kernel, Oranje El Lo or maybe Orange Jello? are all hilarious to me! Peep, Twinky, Chicklet, Quakity,
You are just so cute raising your chickies! I live in Clovis and my mother in law lives up in Modesto. Would love to visit your farm and see your birds. Do you allow visitors? I just bought 15 bantams from Cackle Hatchery. They seemed to get good reviews and have healthy breeders. Didn't know about you being local until I started looking for local true Ameraucana breeders. Good luck with your 4H project!! I love me some organic eggs. I also grow organic veggies and use organic pest control like DE.
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Carla D Goodloe
4/24/2013 03:50:30 pm
I forgot to say that my kids wanted to name my first brood - Fried, Broiled, Nugget, Omelet, Juicy, and Yummy. haha They ended up with Penny, Lily, Juno, Coco, Twinkie, and Henley. They are all gone now. Just got my new bantam babies now. Let me know what you name them!
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Gabey
5/5/2013 04:40:17 pm
I love the foodie chicky names. What kind of bantams did you get? Were the Ameraucanas? We've wanted some, but you know- space is always an issue. I wish we could say yes to visitors but we really are just a backyard small town thing. Maybe we could post some coop photos? I'll see what we can do. We just named our first Wheaten hen Peepster her next little buddies is going to be Twinkie and Chicklet. Thanks for posting would love to keep it going!
Pictures of your coop would be awesome! Let me know when you post some on your site. I love seeing how people set things up. I saw some chicky names like Paprika, Sage, Basil, Thyme, Rosemary, Salvia, Oregano, Chamomile, Sunflower, and other herby names. I think Marshmallow would be a cool name if the chicky is white or cream. LOL
My son called his chick Twinkie because she was yellow like a twinkie. I told him she wouldn't be that color as an adult but he insisted. When she got older she was my best layer and was reddish brown like the "bottom" of a Twinkie. She had super jumbo sized eggs and several double yolk ones. They were huge without being double yolked. Never could get her eggs to fit into a carton properly. They were bigger than the 'jumbo' ones they sell in the grocery store. Red Stars are the top layers in my opinion. I think they beat out the Australorps. Well the Red Stars from mypetchicken.com anyway. Crazy big eggs.
My current brood includes 9 Easter Egger bantams and 7 Rhode Island Red bantams. 2 got eaten by a cat last week. My fault. I left the lid off and opened the door to air out the garage due to the high heat during the day, and the neighbor cat got in there. So I have 8 EE and 6 RIR with 7 more EE bantams on order for next week. 2 of the EE'ers have leg feathers! What a surprise! Was not expecting that at all so I imagine their parentage includes cochin or silkie crossing. These 2 appear to have partridge coloring coming in as black, beige, white feathers.
In my 2nd brood last year, I had BeeBee, Ms Peeps, Ginger, Red (she had a red head at birth), Popcorn, and Jazzy. Bee and Peeps were Australorps and the other 4 were Golden Buffs. At laying time in February, they got so noisy I rashly gave them and the coop away to a nice family. I miss them alot but the racket that Aussie was making and getting the other one to holler along with her was really annoying! If they annoy me as their owner, I can't imagine what the neighbors were thinking. I am hoping the bantams aren't so noisy. I'm told they can be just as noisy though so we'll see how it goes. I may just ignore it because the neighbors don't seem to care about all the barking dogs in our neighborhood. I read that bantams also don't stink as bad as regular size because smaller droppings dry and compost into the soil faster. We'll see!!
I think I will make a chicken website at weebly to show pictures of my backyard farm. I already have a genealogy page at www.dickerson-goodloe.com. Thanks for giving me the idea! Check out thegoodloeacre.weebly.com in a couple weeks! Nice chatting with you!
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Gabey
10/14/2013 09:04:30 am
I LOVE your website!!!! It's so adorable. Do you enjoy your Bantams? I had bantams their names were Miss Wild and Flappers. What is your Bantams names? How many do u have? I only had 2, unfortunately we sold them because I didn't wan to do showmanship only exhibition birds & eggs. Great hearing from you. I will try to be online more now that I am in charge of my website!
I have 8 bantams (5 Easter Eggers and 3 RIR) right now since 2 were killed by a neighbor dog. I have 2 RIR and 2 Ameraucanas (probably easter eggers though) on order thru the local feed store but those 4 will be standard size hens since I'm not thrilled with the bantams ability to fly over the 8 ft fences and getting into neighbor's yards. Clipped wings don't stop these girls. I have had to put up netting over top to keep them in. Ugly! The names of the 8 I have now are: Piper, Whisper, Paprika, Hazel, Pearl, Pixie, Marshmallow, and Clover. Zelda and Biddy Biddy (the runt) were the ones killed.
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Gabey
10/28/2013 12:02:01 pm
Sorry about your chickens. Our best rooster just got attacked by wild dogs luckily he survived. But the funny thing is, is that the farmer never had wild dogs before. He got his gun & shot at the ground & the dogs didn't even flinch. He shot one of the dogs in the paw, don't worry the dog survived, it bullet didn't even hit the dog but it was close enough that the dogs backed off. Your chickens flew 8 feet without wings!
A couple of my chickens flew 20 feet in the air from a fence to the house about 100 feet. I haven't clipped their wings yet but I decided to just put netting over their pen area instead of clip the wings because clipping looks so ugly. I still have my 8 bantams. The dog next door now had to contend with an electric fence so it hasn't dug through again. I bought 4 standard size birds, 2 RIR and 2 EEer. Just bigger sizes to the bantam breeds I have. They are 2 weeks old. So cute and getting little wings already. Glad you are learning how to run this site and chat online. Thanks for keeping me updated on things going on up there. I'll be in Modesto for Thanksgiving. My in-laws live in southeast Modesto off Oakdale Road.
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Gabey
10/28/2013 12:05:29 pm
Sorry it is taking me awhile to respond I am still getting use to talk online. Hope to talk to you more recently! :), I just learned that it is a smile face.
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Gabey
3/14/2014 11:29:52 am
I have been told that you do not have to clip the wing. You can pluck just one feather! It is in between the primary and secondary feathers. It is a short feather so you will know that you are plucking the correct one. The feather will grow back eventually so you will need to do it a few times a year. Warning they still can kinda fly but they shouldn't be able to fly as high as they use to.
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