How you know you're an poultry lover...

[drafthorse39]

 

[AK-Bird-brain]

How about If your coop is nicer than most peoples house, check out Sherry's coop over in the coop design section. DANG and here I thought we had the Hilton.

 

[2mnypets]

How about this:
24.) The people at the post office know your voice when they answer the phone.
25.) You know exactly what trucks arrive at what time at the post office and you know your way around the loading/unloading dock area so well you could do it in your sleep.
26.) You have to wake your husband up because he is talking in his sleep about coop dimensions and how those evil cockrels need to stop stressing "HIS" hens out.
27.) The chicken coop gets the room addition or expansion before the "human" house does.
28.) Your family now call daily to check on the progress of the babies.
29.) Your mother in law makes you a growth chart for your chicks.
30.) You get a sympathy card when one of your babies die.

My 14 year old is so jealous of the money and time spent that she's swore she's going to spend the summer with her "NON CHICKEN" friends. But who can say no to these cute faces?

 

[4H kids and mom]

Awww! Now THEM are cute babies!

My problem seems to be that I cant say NO! Hehehe! So, hubby's been reading the real estate booklets cuz he says "Thats it. We need more room!" I laugh evily at that. I could SO fill up that extra room! Muhahaha!

 

[SpottedCrow]

When my Aunt calls, she usually says, "Oh, well, you must be out with the chickens". LOL

 

[V Chic Chick]

1) After a hard day of work, you go talk to your chicks, and ducks about it, before your family.
Guilty as charged

2) You often have several "nurseries" or brooders set up around your house.
If only I was allowed chicks

3) Chicks and other feathered species currently occupy as much, or MORE, space in your home than your human family members do.
They're outside, but there is a LOT of chicken related things in the house.

4) You have baby ducks brooding in your upstairs bathtub.
I wish!

5) You adjust the temp in your home to suit the "babies" even if the other "humans" in your home suffer.
They're outside chickens, but still.

6) Once out in their coop, you worry constantly. First about real dangers (raccoons, possums, fox), and then about imaginary threats (the roof blowing off the coop in the middle of the night and sucking them all away into oblivian, etc) and end up bringing them all back into the house at 2am so YOU can sleep.
The roof really did blow off once, but they were all still there in the morning, thankfully. I do worry about the fox, but dad'd do his nut if he found em in the house.

7) You find it hard to sleep without hearing the constant "cheep cheep cheep" of chicks brooding in a nearby room.
No chicks sucks.

8) You once (or more times) fell asleep holding a chick, chicken, duck, or goose.
I nearly did, lying outside on the grass yesterday. It sort of would have been embarassing if I did, because I'd never see her again.

9) You have brought a DUCK or GOOSE into the house to get them out of the rain, even though you know they are water birds.
No ducks unfortunately.

10) You coddle, preen, and swoon over a favorite rooster, despite the odd looks you get as neighbors drive by.
Chickens can't be seen from the road, but the neighbours think I'm bonkers anyway.

11) You have sacraficed YOUR grocery bill to feed your poultry more than once.
Not enough chickens for that, but I have taken things from the fridge for them before.

12) It takes you more than 30 minutes to do your shopping for your feeds, and other poultry needs.
Not normally (about five minutes lol) but I can spend ages looking around the stalls at a show.

13) You dont feel silly at all snorting at the young sales person who told you this bag of feed was non-medicated when it is clearly marked medicated on the bag, and you eagerly point this out to him so he knows in the future. You then go home feeling like you helped other chickens out there somewhere by sharing this knowledge with him.
It's not only chicken related things that I'll do that with. Shameless, me lol.

14) You take every opportunity to talk about, show photos of, and brag about your poultry to anyone who will listen.
Guilty!

15) You have done the above so often, that your 'human' family rolls their eyes at the mere mention of chicks, chickens, etc. and quickly tries to devert the topic.
Yep!

16) Your 'poultry' allowance has been cut off on more than one occasion, usually by a loving spouse who just doesn't understand why this little chick MUST have friends.
Thankfully, no.

17) Your local feed store knows you by your first name, and smiles when you come in because they know you're going to spend a bundle there.
Once every two months doesn't quite warrant that lol.

18) You've spent money more on your poultry than some of your 'human' family.
The chickens get christmas presents. I've neglected certain people in the past.

19) At least one person in your family is slightly jealous of the time, money, or attention you give to your "babies".
He'd never admit it, but my dad is jealous.

20) For those of us who are married: Poultry has been the discussion in an argument with a spouse on more than one occasion, and you still ended up winning. big_smile
Not with a spouse, but with my dad. I have beated him into submission - what I say goes about my girls.

 

[crazy4daisy]

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Wow, that's happened to me too many times.