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

[Crafty-Duck]

When you have more fruits,veggies,and treats in the freezer for the chickens then you do for people

 

[Rachel96]

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

... you've ever said, "Mum, the dead one-legged chick is wrapped in toilet paper on top of the incubator. Could you ask Dad to bury it, please?"

 

[RingneckParrot]

...you drive your friends mad about chicken talk
...you join BYC
...you think dreamily about your favourite breeds and little chicks constantly
...you can't wait to own a farm full of chickens!!!

 

[attila the mum]

you even decorate their hen house for xmas, as i did!!!!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

when you call "here chick chick," to call your children home for supper.

 

[gambit2178]

When 95% of the items from the weekly grocery shopping is for your chickens and the other 3% is for your flatmate and the last 2% is for you.

When you are visiting with family and notice is starting to get dark and you must get home to make sure all your girls are tucked in for the night, after a nice dinner of hard boiled eggs, minced garlic, chopped spinach and some yogurt.

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

Your electric bill is higher for your coops than for your house.

 

[katsdar]

When you set up your spare bathroom as a chicken hospital, because you need to keep a close check on your girl, her new home is a cozy place made in the bathtub of course for easy clean up when she is all better. Course this is the bathroom nobody uses because it is the animals bathroom, where the dogs get groomed, cat box is set etc,etc, of course the chicken coming into the house over the objections of the hubby, but it still does no good chickens and animals win every time.

 

[hannah67]

When you open tyour email all your inbox is about chickens
your favorites are all chicken related
when you go to fleet farm to buy a tire and you come bak with feed and treats for your chickens and not the tire

 

[chicken gal]

When on the back of your family's Christmas card there's a chicken.

In my christmas card I was holding one of my favorite chickens. She is a barred rock named Rosiy. I LOVE HER BEACAUSE SHE IS SO GENTLE AND NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!