Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."

[Shobe Biz]

You know you are addicted to chickens when people walk up to you whom you've never met and say, "Oh, you're the Chicken Woman."

 

[Shobe Biz]

My hard drive (had to get an external one) is full of chicken photos, too!

 

[Rhoise]

You know you're addicted to raising backyard chickens when...ya want to spend the night in the coop with your new chicks so there not scared hahahahha!!!

 

[caj1985]

Created a Van Gogh coop for our retired chickens!!! Pulled an old building out of our back 40, added a new floor, covered it with old barn wood and painted every side with a different Van Gogh painting. This was my 1st attempt at painting murals.. It was a blast!! For more pics of my coop, see my profile.

Welcome to BYC!

 

[Chickadee707]

You know you're addicted to raising backyard chickens when...

• [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]you hatch them in your hands (even though they're wet and slimy)[/FONT]
• [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]you keep the babies in your living room[/FONT]
• [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]you take them on car rides and to the store[/FONT]
• [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]you share your meal with them[/FONT]
• [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]paint their toe nails [/FONT]
  
• skype with them

Just a "taste" of how we're addicted, lol

 

[SarniaTricia]

when you move to a rented farm and rent out your house so you can keep your chickens

when your DH is "the egg man" at work, cause he brings the eggs to work and sells them

when you name your rented farm CCL Farm. (crazy chicken lady farm) compliments of DH

when the kids ask "really more eggs?" for the incubator

when you cuddle in bed with DH and ask "are we "pickin chickens"" -app for the i pad that has a random selection to look at breeds of chickens

when you do said chicken picking and the DH thinks "that would be an interesting breed" so off you go the next day searching the web for Malays to hatch...

when you are trying to figure out how to turn your chicken hobby into a full time paying job.

when you call your roo a gentleman, cause he hasn't attacked anyone and tries to point out treats to you

when you warn the DH not to go all rooy around the roo cause you want him to stay a gentleman.

when you enable all those hatch-o-holics with pictures of your new babies.... and give an evil laugh... that makes the kids look at you funny cause you were sitting all quiet on the couch in front of the computer for hours and all of a sudden you start evil laughing

when you started looking at BYC on your break at work and realize it has been 2 hours!!! (figure you had better post yours and get to work, crap)

 

[cjwaldon]

. . . buying a chicken related gift for someone in hopes they don't like it so you can keep it.

 

[Izzymoon]

you can tell what breed of chicken laid which egg

 

[QueenBeeMom]

The pool guy tells you that you have interesting conversations with your chickens. This happened today. Further building evidence that I am addicted, instead of being embarrassed, I smiled and told him they appreciate intelligent conversation.

 

[Eggcellent8]

You know you're addicted to raising backyard chickens when...

...You take a chicken in to church... and no-one comments about how odd that is... And the next week, someone else has their chicken with them.

...You become known as "The Chicken Girl" by the younger children in your homeschooling group.

...Parents in your homeschooling group come to you asking for chicken advice or wanting their chicken sexed.

...You go for an hour-long session with your psychiatrist... only to spend 45 minutes talking about each other's chickens.

...Your psychiatrist tells you, "I'm glad you're my client... I can ask you for advice about my chickens."

...You're a bunkhouse counsellor at a youth camp and one of your girls is feeling homesick... not for her parents or siblings but for her pet chicken who usually sleeps in her bed. The other children tease her about it and the staff think she's crazy... but she's happy to tell you about missing Chooky-Lou because she knows you'll understand.

...The first thing you say when a new teacher rings you up to introduce herself at the beginning of the year is, "Sorry it took so long to get to the phone... I was trying to catch some white Leghorns."

...The same teacher tells you the next week that if you can't remember the teleconferencing code to get into her lesson, you should write it on a piece of paper and stick it to a chicken.

...Your cat starts sulking because he wanted to watch TV from your lap but a chicken was already there.