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| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 30 2013 : 06:42:32 AM
Have y'all followed any themes or traditions with the naming of your animals?
I'm almost embarrassed at some of the names I've come up with.
A litter of dogs had 'fruit' names....Berry, Melon, , Plum, Cantaloupe, and Grape.
Goats with 'M' names...Mocha, Molly, Millie, Mindy, Mandy, Mixie, Mojo
Goats/dogs with 'K' names....Kairi, Kailyn, Kara, Koki
Molly had babies named Holly and Dolly (so original! ha ha)
Buck Zorro sired babies names Zed and Zoey.
Chickens with Cajun names...Gumbo, Creole, Tabasco
Ok, that's enough 'confessing' ....
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| cajungal |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 8:32:47 PM
Laura, I think I have a new theme for the next go round...that is if I can borrow your songs idea.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 8:31:40 PM
Wildfire, one of my favorite songs. And- Locomation- I love that song!! Cute, Laura.
Marly
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 7:44:34 PM
Loyce my horses all have their own rock and roll songs. And some of the ones we raised were named after them. We had Dollie Dagger, Guy's Fortunate Sun. My Barrel horse Sequoia has several songs that I gave him. Life in the fast lane, Baby hold on to me. My mustang Wildfire is named after the song wildfire. My holsteiner mare Sarina has Long cool woman in a black dress. My old palomino has Locomotion. Our filly blue Jean Image has blue jean baby queen, My little healer dog Freckles has close to you. I spend way too much time at the barn, really. Its all part of my rock and roll fantasy.
Laura
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| windypines |
Posted - Feb 08 2013 : 12:49:43 PM
I get on different kicks with names for cattle. I have done movies, flowers, using a different letter of the alphabet for all babies, and so on. Not sure what I will do this year. The best names were for a pair of bull calves, Pete and Repete. Actually my husband came up with that.
Michele |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Feb 07 2013 : 09:29:43 AM
I am naming all the kids so far after the show friends, for some reason. Penelope's doe kids are Phoebe and her twin sister Ursula. Then Trudy's kids are Ross and Monica, since they are brother and sister too. Then Abby's bucks will be Joey and Chandler. Just sort of happened.
Kris
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| traildancer |
Posted - Feb 07 2013 : 09:15:32 AM
Oh, and all our dogs have Louis names, mostly from the Sacketts.
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| traildancer |
Posted - Feb 07 2013 : 09:14:49 AM
When I was breeding horses I decided to use a music theme. So----
Cloud's Clair de Lune (sire was Cloud's Jubilation)
Legend in D Major (sire was Legend)
Legend's Serenade at Sundown (same sire and I love the song Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot)
Captain Jack Sparrow (okay, no music but JD is awfully cute!)
Stormy's Danse Finale (dam was Stormy and he was her last foal for me)
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Feb 06 2013 : 07:40:15 AM
I always think I want to name my goats after flowers or herbs but never seems to happen except for some of them. I used to have a very ugly hen that was all malformed but still a good layer and she would cluck all the time so I named her Clugly. She was one of my favorites. I always think of the old movie Rudolph where Santa went to the island for misfit toys and some of my critters make me think of that.
Laura
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| BarnHeart |
Posted - Feb 06 2013 : 07:28:43 AM
Haha, Catherine! Go right ahead. The funny part is that "toenail" was a bantam black cochin; all you could see of her legs were her toenails. My son is nothing if not observant. :)
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| laurentany |
Posted - Feb 05 2013 : 7:32:04 PM
Our cat is named TUNA because she was a stray that showed up at our door one day, and all that we had to feed her was.......
You guessed it-a can of tuna.
2 of our hens are named Star and Liberty because we got them 5 years ago on Flag Day.
Our dog is Maggie- we rescued her and that was her name.
My daughter named. Our rabbit Riley....Riley Rabbit we call her.
We are in the planning stage of naming the new chicks we will be getting this spring.
Such fun!
~Laurie
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| cajungal |
Posted - Feb 05 2013 : 6:26:58 PM
@Autumn...I love 'Toenail'. I may have to borrow that one.
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| Dorinda |
Posted - Feb 05 2013 : 5:54:58 PM
My cows are named after flowers. So far Rose, Petunia and Lilly. I just had a new baby calf. I am thinking Iris or Daisy.
Seize The Day!
Dorinda |
| BarnHeart |
Posted - Feb 05 2013 : 5:51:23 PM
We let the kids name the chickens. A few names were pretty normal, like Fuzzy and Speedy...but then my oldest decided he needed a namesake; so we had Braxton Chick (a hen, lol). Then he got on a body part kick...and so came Heady, Feety, Nosey, and Toenail. Lucky for us, we stopped at 7 hens; otherwise, I'd hate to think what body parts would've been next!!! 
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Feb 05 2013 : 5:12:12 PM
Catherine, I love this thread. It makes me smile to see the names of animals. Like Chocolate Chip. Cute!
Marly
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| nndairy |
Posted - Feb 05 2013 : 1:12:23 PM
My husband and I are dairy farmers. We have too many themes to mention. A lot of our cow families start with the same letter, but some are more creative. Some of my favorites are:
States - started with Kansas now includes Georgia and Maryland
Chocolate - A cross breed that was born looking like chocolate rather than black. She gave birth to CoaCoa and Chocolate Chip (we call her C.C.)
We also did the rhyme thing starting with Mary then came Carey and Sherry.
My all time favorite for our farm is a set of twins born a couple years ago. There's holsteins, but one is red and one is black. We named them peanut butter (the black one) and jelly (the red one).
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| heritagehunter |
Posted - Feb 02 2013 : 06:11:32 AM
When my son was in kindergarten our pets were named after foods. Oreo-the cocker spaniel; Twinkie-the cat; and Muffin-the goldfish.
Now it is just random names we think of. Wiley; Tripp; and Kirby. All dogs.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 8:13:50 PM
Thanks, Catherine. After that I thought first about future cat names!
Marly
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| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 8:02:18 PM
Laura, Wow! That's a lot of horses. I love how you said y'all are all adults but just act like kids...funny!
Marly, That story about RK was sad and funny all wrapped up.
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| emtfarmer |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 5:45:18 PM
Cute post! I can feel the love everyone has for their "babies".
Please don't think me crazy, but when my husband and I got our first cat, he said just to give it time. . . .dogs and cats name themselves. Huh?! Was he serious? But as it turns out, the names that finally came to mind and stuck, very much suit their personalities. And unlike most cats, they come when you call their name; none of this "here, kitty kitty kitty". It all began with an Irish theme; Katie, Duncan, and Mollie. Then along came Tessa. Is that French? Anyway, she's prissy, beautiful, and wants all the attention! (Seems French to me!)
Darlene
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 10:21:03 AM
I love all the names, Laura. I had a cat name RK. I could never understand why I named that cat RK. When it meowed it sounds like rrrkkkkk. She got run over by a car, and hubby says, as we were burying the cat, "This cat sure lived up to its name." I asked him to explain. He said, "I thought you named her Road Kill". No!!!!
Marly
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 09:52:13 AM
Our horses are:
Hunny
Dashing Sweet Ryon (Sweetheart)
Leos Tru Mountain (Sequioa)
Cee Bee's Traveller (Shorty)
Sunset Traveller (Traveller)
Wildfire
Silky Sparkle (Sparkle)
Dazzling Firefly (Dazzle)
Silent Indian Summer (Summer)
Foxy Red Miss (Missy)
Twist of Fortune (Twister)
GFS Dashing Empress (Emp)
Littltree Cheyenne (Cheyenne)
Smart Peppy Elan (Peppy)
Blue Jean Image (Jeanie)
Ksarina (Sarina)
Treasure My Color(Blacky)
Big Jake Straw (Jake)
The goats:
Peggy
Dahlia
Dogs:
Emily (slick haired Dachshund)
Itsy Bitsy (Longhaired Dachshund)
Freckles (Red healer, border collie)
Orville (bassett hound)
Cats:
Penelope
Dandelion
(My daughters' cats, They like names from other languages)
Quatre
Quetara
Sasha
Kichona
Zhu Zhu
Geese:
Jack and Jill , who we bought from a couple named Jack and Jill.
The chickens get names sometimes, Ike and Tina for a couple of black Polishes, and he was an abusive jerk too. My daughter has Perstefanie who likes to ride on her shoulder.
Any way some of the animals came with their names and some we gave barn names but most we named. Jake is a boarder. Our daughters live and work here on the ranch but we are all adults. Just act like kids.
Nothing more fun than looking forward to a new little critter to name a fun name.
Names to avoid for horses, Lucky, Smart or Buck. Just kidding.
Laura
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| Simple Living |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 09:15:33 AM
I have a tendency to name my pets also with human names. So we have Cutie (that's not a human name lol), but we also have a Rex, Roxie, Molly, and Fergie. Then there was my beloved dog (miss her dearly) named Suzi.
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| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 08:24:48 AM
forgot to add that we had a rabbit named Cyndi Lopper(she was a lop rabbit..lol)also a rabbit named Nacho.
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| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 08:22:03 AM
we have or had
cocoa
espresso
ginger
baby
pebbles
bambam
zeus
hercules
super nova
hershey
pandora
spenser
we are just kind of all over the place, but we pulled some names from Icarly, as told by ginger, and mythical gods and goddess
Homesteading Mom in East Texas. Raising chickens, Rabbits and goats here on my farm!
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| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 04:38:14 AM
Kristin...you reminded me that I did an alphabet theme one time...A-Aria, B-Bella, C-Celeste,D-Darcy, E-Ebony.
Jennifer...I laughed out loud when I read 'Stick' and 'Splinter'...so funny!
Annette....Your daughter has good taste.
One of the best compliments from one of my daughters: "Moma, you smell good...like dirt." |
