...when you spend half an hour sweeping the hay from the carpeted trunk of your sedan so the feathery ones will have nice dry feet in their run. Marquis are nowhere near as neat as pickups for bales of hay!
You know you are addicted to chickens when...you are making them some spaghetti to go with the left over pasta sauce you made the night before and keep checking to make sure it's done al dente. I wonder what is Italian for 'to the beak'?