How do you pick your Farm Name?!?!

[michickenwrangler]

Mine took some doing to come up with.

We have an abudance of cedar trees, so I wanted something with "cedar". Well, everything with cedar is pretty much an overused cliche: Cedar Valley, Cedar Creek, Cedar Woods, Cedar Ridge, etc...

So ... I took the TYPE of cedar we have, Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis, to come up with herd and farm name White Cedar. Plus it snows a lot here in Michigan, it's on the ground almost 6 months of the year, so it's apt.

 

[Canadiannee]

I am sitting here chuckling at some of the your farm names and how they came about...

LOVED your name and reason Fair Weather! lol, tractors, rototillers and you! Very fun!

Bonbean - Pissimissy Ponderosa made me smile from ear-to-ear! It's like a word scramble!

Egg Newton - Wooded Acres... that's what I was talking about, trying to find something distinguishable about the property to form it into a name... lol, problem for me is that everything I see, doesn't sound too favourable!

Micchickenwrangler - how inventive! I would never have thought of taking the type of the species of tree and using that to form a barn name... Like you, the land around the area of the property is an abundant supply of cedar, and I couldn't find a "cedar name" that wasn't in use... although, I did notice that many of the old rafter timbers in the "grand ole dame" are cedar... but I'm sure "Old Cedar Barn" is probably taken too! lol!

WhiteMountainsRanch - Funny how names stick isn't it? You may not have purchased that property, or live in Arizona now, but you'll always remember the place and have a good story to share.

Stacykins - very interesting read on UP of Michigan, sounds like a beautiful place to live... and to visit from your Canadian cousins!

And today I am still lost on finding a barn name... lol, I don't think I had this tough of time naming our children *cheeky grin* I've sort of decided to stay away from using the words "barn" and "farm"... I was thinking more along the lines of ____________ Goat & Rabbitry. Our horses, chickens, ducks, quail and pheasants are our personal use animals... the goats and rabbits are income, but I still can't fill in the blank... lol, I might be working on this for a good while yet!

 

[Egg_Newton]

I glanced at ur last post and "cheeky grin" was what I saw. Cheeky Grins Goats & Rabbitry.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Northern Cedar?

That was my second choice for an ADGA herd name. Since everything with cedar in front of it is pretty much taken, maybe use cedar as the second part: Tall Cedar, Northern Cedar, Snow Cedar, Hidden Cedar, East Cedar, West Cedar, Wild Cedar

Why not go with Grand Dame?

My neighbor's herd name is Saaga-Togg. She started off with Saanens and Toggenburgs and combined the names, plus a lot of the Ojibway Indian/Anishnaabe names around here begin with "Sag": Saginaw, Saganing, etc... Every year, she has a "theme" for her kids and this year, she is naming her goat kids after nuts. So far she has an Almond, Peanut and Cashew. Her husband liked my suggestion of Filbert and Pistachio. I told her if she didn't already have her herd name, she could make hers "Just Plain Nuts". Wouldn't that look cute on papers? Just Plain Nuts Filbert, Just Plain Nuts Cashew ...

 

[Harbisgirl]

Every year, she has a "theme" for her kids and this year, she is naming her goat kids after nuts. So far she has an Almond, Peanut and Cashew. Her husband liked my suggestion of Filbert and Pistachio. I told her if she didn't already have her herd name, she could make hers "Just Plain Nuts". Wouldn't that look cute on papers? Just Plain Nuts Filbert, Just Plain Nuts Cashew ...

I love that! It's adorable

 

[Canadiannee]

lol Egg Newton! It's funny how you picked up on that old way of expressing "over computer feelings"... back before emoticons, and even before computer lingo such as "lol", and rotfl" came out, we use to use astrids and type in an emotions to put feelings to the words... I've never really got out of the habit, haha, I think technology advance and I got left behind! *laughing* Oh golly, dates many of our ages a bit doesn't it?

Michickenwrangler - oh my! Now that's funny! How cute to have a theme, and what a cute barn name "Just Plain Nuts"! I have a friend who shows Hackney horses and ponies and their farm name is "Jaftica" which means "Just another flippin' toy I can't afford"...