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Originally Posted by Seraph
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Originally Posted by Vivisectus
Awesome! Do you file your chickens alphabetically at night?
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Definitely do, but it is easier than you imagine because their names (from left to right) are Henrietta, Henrietta and Henrietta. The reason for that is that it makes it easy to call all of them at once, should the need arise. I'd just shout: "Come here, hens."
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Heh...
Mine all have individual names. In the past, I've had a couple of wanderers (I still have one, this year's 'impertinent youth', the bush-roosting Welsummer) and if I wanted them to come home from raiding the neighbor's yards, I'd step to the back door (or front, if no response was received at the back) and yell, "Bukka! Bukka! Bukka!"
If I'd connected, I'd hear the response and calibrate based on clucking whether they were actually headed home or lingering abroad.
On rare occasions, I'd have to go in search. Your neighbors can get some interesting perspectives when they find you clucking around their sideyards, poking in the bushes.