BUTTERCUP!!!!!!!!

ohhhh!   I want it to be Buttercup now!

I like Muppet & Camilla too

there are just tooo many good suggestions now...

I may have to extend it so that there are two runner up names suitable for the laydee silkies.

and... I suppose I am gonna have to pop my poll cherry soon as well

Noooooooooooooooooooooo .........................you can't have the runner up names for girlies. I have hundreds of possibilities for girle names (Miss Luke is top of my list).

Yep ...........get on with it! And well done you for keeping a bit of fun , and this forum alive in a dry spell!

ok...   separate naming of the hens from the naming of Mr Silkie

useless information.I do know that all domestic chickens are decended from wild Asian  jungle fowl.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!   Yeah...   though it wasn't actually my intention...   I really was looking for stories from FMs about how they bonded with their feisty cockerels & lived happily ever after in man/chicken bliss

oooooooh!    And that is just like some of the other cockerels we have!

Sooooooo pretty!

(I am fast becoming some sort of weird chicken fancier here)

they look so pretty compared to the poor battery things,however the cages are getting banned soon.

Makes a change from pigeons I guess 

Perhaps it's the posher version?

I cooked Pheasant tonight. Mr Woo bought in a bit of road kill.

Right... I am not including Camilla in this poll..   I will save that for the Name the Silkie hen poll...

And...   Sooz - we have pheasants too at work...    beautiful black ones!!

I just can't wait until you post the thread titled 'Dave is a cock'. That'll go down well in Vancouver. 

Aha  Pheasants are Asian imports too.

Vancouver?     Dave is in Vancouver?    When did this happen??

(& yeah...  I hadn't realised til this thread started that I had subconciously named my fave cockerel after our resident forum moderator )

I kept fowl for years and had similar problems with cocks and ganders.My solution was to go in to feed them and straight away pick up the offender ( Cock or Gander ) then feed the rest whilst holding them. After about 5 mins- put the fowl down and offer them a hand full of feed. Worked for me- good luck. And remember- there's nowt like holding a cock for 5 mins knowing you are to benefit in the end.

Gonzo .

SLINKEH!!!

that's a fab suggestion but I have done the poll now!!

bugger...   can I edit a poll?

ahhh, I never saw the poll! Dammit!

S'ok..   I edited my poll!

I am now a Master of Polls..   

Brisket would be SO proud of me!

Well I thought he is/was.  Just 'cos he supports the Patriots doesn't mean he lives in New England!  Talk to any Man United fan you know! 

Cheeky Chops.

I thought he lived in Seattle ....    I could be wrong though!

Oooooh!   Is Dave a Canadian?

Love it!  

There was one running along the road at Anerley Hill last week..!

Couldn't believe it   Silly b*gger ran all the way up to the lights at Crystal Palace with a queue of cars not daring to overtake him (t'was busy oncoming traffic)

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww - could Brisket not be an option?

Ooops! I did it again! Yeah, Seattle is in the US. Apologies all around. I've got geography dyslexia about this! Still west coast though? 

This rooster's displaying very unbrisketlike behaviour though! 

If I hadn't called my fave cockerel Dave, I would say I would call him Brisket..   cos he is the gentlest, friendliest, most caring of all the chickens.   He is always worried about any of the others (male or female) that are hurt...     he gets in the middle of any cockerel fights, he defended the silkies when we first got him.

I may rename Dave Brisket.

hahahahahaha...    I can't beleive there is someone who's international geography is worse than mine? 

they're fab aren't they?

we get that alot round here..    pheasants & grouse..    casually ambling up the middle of roads with a mile of tail back traffic behind them

.. with a small b remember!  

Just posted a link in the poll thread instead of in here ditty - all this cocktalk has got me confuzzled!  

! 

I'm used to seeing them down here in the Sussex countryside but I have to confess I've never seen one taking an afternoon stroll in the middle of SE London before!

Mind you, my record with all things bird can be a bit bizarre at the best of times.  I buy my smokes in a different shop now due to a fracas with a pigeon.  Don't even ask!

Oooooooooooooooooooooh I'm asking!

But I have to now!!!

Come on spill...     did you get mugged for your fags by an uber tough pigeon?

(the bosses wife also keeps fantailed pigeons at work..    only they are sooo no longer fantailed pigeons...   cos they have interbred with collared doves they are now doves...  but we aren't allowed to call them doves    There is some kind of pigeon snobbery going on that I don't understand)

Look! They do them in tweed too!  

hahahaha

there are some fab ones Slinkeh.. 

Google "Frizzle chickens"    or...    "Frizzle Silkie Chickens"

they're fab