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...When... You have to give your dearest fun loving visiting relative the :mad:.EVIL EYE :smack when, as you are showing off your coop and best laying girls, they go... :drool "Mmmmmmmm..." :drool and lick their lips!!!

When instead of saving your kid-who-didn't-come-to-breakfast's meal for later when they're done oversleeping, you give your ladies room service a la carte

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when... You have an infirmed patient pullet playing peck the inhabitants moving on your tablet screen with you, after her treatments and special feeding...

When you can tell the difference between a fairy egg and a bantam egg of the same color!

You have your chickens with you on a hot day when you need to defrost the freezer so they can enjoy the scrap ice and later discards...

You know... ...when @KikisGirls' experiment has you (and a gazillion others) so totally addicted to watching the embryos development that over 1000 posts get made in less than 3 days! :yesss: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-accidently-bought-balut-eggs.1229923/

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when... You live under a 5-Hen-0-Rooster limit law so you start searching for a place in the country so as to increase your flock size

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when... you can't decide which of the available chicks you like most so you buy ALL of them! :cool:

:fl so far they're keeping up with all the backyard weeds except the violets and Carolina jasmine. I think those are bad for them anyway. C'est la vie...

:barnieHave 3 hens but doing the free pasture range backyard deal in exchange for weeding, bug control, dethatching lawn, mulch turning, mowing and fertilizing... is the backyard DOOMED?? :oops:

I have a lawn chair ... You know you're a Backyard chicken owner when you sunbathe in the run! :jumpy:jumpy:woot:jumpy:jumpy:yesss:

...when you can only get half of a cat nap because the chooks are foraging in the yard and every fleeting shadow or weird squawk sends you into panic mode! :barnie :fl :confused: :wee

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when.... you don't want to sleep late anymore because the flock is waiting impatiently

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when... this happens..

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when... You go on an egghunt with a flashlight and it's not Easter :jumpy:wee :bun

You KNOW... When YOU ARE a chicken in your dreams!! ! <3 :jumpy

Good to know! Maybe a little reverse psychology for the birds is in order. Such as put a little mulch and birdseed where you want them to till for you!

yep! You also know.... When while watching a show with poultry in a scene, you pipe out their breeds and which of yours they look just like.

A few years ago in Chesapeake Bay Area, Maryland the Mallard momma and new brood from a downtown planter nest made the front page news as the street was temporarily closed until the DNR got them off to the nearest safe water.

When you decide that :rant :barnie Chickenese is better for communicating with your birds than any human language, and they respond correctly! :yesss: