Uncle Ron brought up valid points about naming bucks. \u00a0It truly is a name game. \u00a0Do you stick with the sire lineage name? \u00a0Come up with something unique? \u00a0Steal from a different species?<\/p>\n
Some names should be retired–Who Made Who, Slam Dunk, Sugar Ray, 900, 191\u2026just to name a few. \u00a0Heat Wave needs to be done. \u00a0I didn’t think it was cool when some named a goat, boar or sheep Heat Wave. \u00a0But, then again, Mini Heat is a cool name. \u00a0Tag #s work if they become legendary. \u00a0900, 191 and 612 are some that come to mind.<\/p>\n
I’ll be honest. \u00a0I’ve got a bank of names. \u00a0I have not hardly used ANY of those names. \u00a0Camoflauge Lingerie is a buck name that I have been carrying around for years. \u00a0(It’s mine so don’t use it. \u00a0I have it here in print. \u00a0Therefore, MINE!!) \u00a0The name hasn’t fit any buck, therefore, I haven’t used it. \u00a0Dirty Rumour is another that I was planning on but\u2026.Milligan bought him and named him Easy Decision. \u00a0Good name.<\/p>\n
How do I come up with names? \u00a0Let us take a closer look.<\/p>\n
FreakOnALeash–I bought him from Gallaghers at weaning in 2010. \u00a0He was a Freaky son. \u00a0At that time, Oklahoma was still showing wethers on the chain. \u00a0NO bracing allowed! \u00a0So, this one was a Freaky son that was going to make wethers to show on the chain. \u00a0Instead, he left us a wicked set of daughters. Although, he did sire the grand wether at OYE in 2013. \u00a0A month after I started advertising him, Top Cut sires (a boar stud) unveiled a boar named Freak On A Leash.<\/p>\n
Rumour Has It–I twisted off and got tag 2174 bought from Helms before his first online buck sale. \u00a0Very few knew who got him. \u00a0The rumors were swirling for several weeks. \u00a0I was on the phone one evening on my drive home, a dude was talking about all of the rumors that were surrounding this buck and where\/who\/what’d he cost\/etc. \u00a0In 2012, Adele was killing the radio with hit after hit. \u00a0While having this discussion, her new hit song hit the radio, “Rumour Has It”. \u00a0I saw it on the radio screen and went “hunh”. \u00a0There’s how that name came to be. \u00a0Of course, the naming guru himself used this name a year later and named one of the BTW bucks Rumour Has It. \u00a0Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.<\/p>\n
Joe Dirt–I was leaning towards Jukebox Hero. \u00a0Tyke liked Joe Dirt. \u00a0I liked the movie, the name and loved the goat. \u00a0I think I’ve wrote about this one before.<\/p>\n
Rainman–Poe & I bought this buck on a Friday afternoon. \u00a0Later that night was the first ever Friday Night Fever. \u00a0One of our companions got sideways, ran down a concrete spillway, hurt his knee and ended up in a quick stop trying to get ice cream at midnight. \u00a0It was a retarded deal. \u00a0Somehow, the next day, as we re-hashed the events of the night before, the name Rainman came up. \u00a0I love the un-abbreviated version of this story. \u00a0Poe & I will both crack up any time that story comes up. \u00a0Mikey Thompson and I will always remember the events inside the quick stop. \u00a0No law involved! \u00a0Every time I am in Sonora, TX, I snap a pic of that concrete drainage ditch and send a smart ass text or three. \u00a0I love the story but I love that goat as well. \u00a0He’s still alive.<\/p>\n
Skippy Red Leg–He had a red leg. \u00a0He got plowed by a doe and broke a shoulder. \u00a0He then skipped around on three legs for a couple of months. \u00a0Duhh!!<\/p>\n
Fade2Black–An actual Starbuck son (Black Sabbath at the time). \u00a0He was gray headed for the first month of his life. \u00a0Then it slowly started changing to black. \u00a0I like Metallica and they have a bad ass tune called Fade To Black. \u00a0Thus the name.<\/p>\n
Manilla Gorilla–He was gorilla assed, gorilla legged and manilla rhymed with gorilla, so thus the name. \u00a0Really\u2026\u2026… in depth \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.thoughts.<\/p>\n
Dirty Rain–He is a Joe Dirt on a wicked, awesome Rainman daughter. \u00a0Real creative.<\/p>\n
Blood Pressure–When Rick Barnthouse bought him, I asked him, “What are you going to name him? \u00a0He rattled off several ideas. \u00a0But then, he said “Kelln, as that auction kept going, my heart was about to explode. \u00a0I had to stop and take some blood pressure pills before I kept bidding.” \u00a0I was like, “Dude! \u00a0Rick that is a perfect name.”<\/p>\n
Duke–When it became apparent that we were having a son, I had most people convinced that we were naming this offspring Krawdad Kelln. \u00a0 I still like that name and there are some elders that still call Duke–Krawdad. \u00a0Most all were relieved when we named him Connely Duke Kelln. My grandpa was named Elbert James Schneider. \u00a0He went by the name of Duke. \u00a0Can’t blame him for that. \u00a0He also answered to E.J.<\/p>\n
And all of that bring us to the newest buck around here. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Next Friday<\/p>\n He is sired by She Said Next. \u00a0Yes, one of the sex crime posse of bucks. \u00a0Except she gave consent. \u00a0This buck\u00a0sold at Friday Night Fiesta. \u00a0And here is the Paul Harvey part of the story. \u00a0Milligan was in San Angelo bidding for me. \u00a0I got him bought, thanked Tommy, hung up the phone, parked the gator and headed into the house. \u00a0I cracked a cold one open as I turned on the tube. \u00a0The first show that was on that evening—one of my favorites—Next Friday.<\/p>\n And in honor of Ron’s blog, if you see me name something Monkey Wrench, HMB, WTS or CWM, you better get in on that action.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ****All names are copyrighted, owned and shall only be used exclusively by Kelln Livestock, Kelln, a Kelln, a friend of Kelln, or anybody that understands the intrinsic value of said names, animals, penguins, warthogs, koalas and\/or is willing to read through all of this jargon or crap and must sign off that they understand the thorough processes that leads to such an idiocracy as this blog or the naming of livestock, kids, pets, or whatever else needs to be covered by anything using asterisks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uncle Ron brought up valid points about naming bucks. \u00a0It truly is a name game. \u00a0Do you stick with the sire lineage name? \u00a0Come up with something unique? \u00a0Steal from a different species? Some names should be retired–Who Made Who, Slam Dunk, Sugar Ray, 900, 191\u2026just to name a few. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}