What's in a Name?

When we got our chicks, naturally, we wanted to name them.  We had 5, so we wanted to come up with a clever group of 5 to name them after.  We thought about using Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood characters, a household favorite, but it didn't seem quite right.  We also thought about Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and ... Splinter, but those were all boy names and that seemed like a bad omen for our need for hens.

We decided on naming them after the Pentateuch; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Because it was hard to tell them all apart at first, we just assigned names by coloring (lightest to darkest) and size (largest to smallest).  So that meant our Silver Sebrights were Genesis and Exodus, Leviticus was our furry footed mystery breed and our Welsummers were Numbers and Deuteronomy.

Well we soon discovered the flaw in our plan to have a witty grouping of names for our 5 chickens:

• Exodus and Leviticus, both unfortunately named hens, met an unfortunate demise in the raccoon attack.
• Numbers was our rooster, whose number was called... to live in the country with 4 fine hens.

So now we are left with Genesis (Gennie), our larger, dominant Silver Sebright hen, who crows and rules the roost; and Deuteronomy (Ronnie), our runt-of-the-brood, 1 winged Welsummer hen, who just roosts.

At least we didn't have to tell EG that Prince Wednesday and Miss Elaina were eaten by a raccoon, and Daniel had to go live at Grandpere's house.

Ugga Mugga!