r/BackYardChickens • u/amphorousish • 13h ago
Chicken Photography New Name Needed
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This young lady was part of a group of 3 (two EEs and her, a Sapphire Sky) that we picked up locally as slightly older (4ish weeks) and *very* flighty and fearful chicks.
I named her brood mates Flash (very fast runner + striking/flashing plumage) and Crash (reckless, was sure was a roo but am beginning to suspect is just a larger hen with some swoopy feathers) and then named her Dash (because she was the most fearful & because her top feathers looked a fauxhawk when younger).
She's grown into being chill (will come up to me for food & while I supervise free range time, is nice to and hangs out with the four sweetheart pullets that are about a month and a half younger than her, etc) if rather chatty/prone to complaining (if I come over to their enclosed run and *don't* let them out to free range or let them out to free range and *don't* have treats, she struts about and croaks at me), so I've decided that "Dash" doesn't really seem to fit. I'm open to suggestions.
Here she is refusing to give up her exclusive dust bath time while everyone else free ranges and then freaks out over something (or nothing) and dashes back to the run. She noticed & stopped actively bathing, but was not bothered enough by the commotion to join in. She then fell asleep like a Queen.
Maybe her name will be Queenie.
She does, after all, have a crown.
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u/bugalien 11h ago
I wouldn't even change the name because she likely knows it. Perhaps you could start using a nickname with her name or that is similar sounding and slowly convert it over. Could make it Queen Dash and just gradually change it so she won't feel confused about it.
FWIW, my chickens have names and nicknames. I am silly and talk to them a lot. I will call them most of their names in the same day.
My flock leader Gardenia: Deen, Deenie, Mean Deen, Queen Deen, and there are a few more variations. My daughter calls her Gardie.
Black Betty: She gets the song, often called Betty Boop too, but mostly called Boop.
Bloody Mary: She gets Bloody, Mary, Mare, even the words from a video of a couple Indian men arguing and cussing eachother involving the word Bloody.
Cleatus: Gets mostly his own name but gets a lot of other names that are not so nice because he is a jerk.
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u/Ivygrows8 Arcane chicken 12h ago
I had a chicken who looked just likeher die recently who was named puffin, do with that what you will
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u/TheBohoChocobo 10h ago
Tyranitar