We gave up naming our chickens several years ago after a number of them died for various reasons, as chickens will do. Since we stopped naming them, no chicken has died. Haven’t quite figured that one out. I am fond of the gray hen, she is industrious and usually the first one out of the roost in the morning. She knows my camera well, and gives it the fish-eye when I get close, as if to dare me to take a picture when she has so many bugs to go out in search of. I always with her a good morning and successful day looking for food, which is what she does for most of the day.