You know you love your chickens when...

[GodofPecking]

Also, for predators like Eagles and such, a slingshot is a satisfying deterrant.

it's just doing what a bird does. If people are going to start getting angry at creatures that love to eat chicken, don't they have to start with themselves first ? can you blame a bird for wanting chicken like we do ? I don't see the need.

 

[rIrs roost]

it's just doing what a bird does. If people are going to start getting angry at creatures that love to eat chicken, don't they have to start with themselves first ? can you blame a bird for wanting chicken like we do ? I don't see the need.

No. I can't blame the bird. I understand it's just the circle of life and the way God intended it to be. But I am still going to try to save my chickens. I don't think anyone would just stand there and let it happen.

 

[User395221]

the first thing you do on the morning after your girls' first night in their new house is go out to check they are ok.....

(seriously, didn't even have my cup of tea)

 

[chixcoop]

Same, even more once they started laying!

 

[red horse ranch]

I know hubby loves our chickens when he's been fishing. He cooks the fillets for us and cooks all the other parts for the poultry!

 

[Chickenchick11]

When you feel each of your chicken's crops when they go to roost to make sure they're full, and if they're not, that/those chicken(s) get to come inside and have a "bedtime snack".

 

[User395221]

you deliberately make more porridge than you can eat, so that you can give some to the girls.

 

[JacksFarmNGardn]

When you dice up their scraps or say night night as you close their coop door at night!

 

[Rewster]

A lot of these hit close to my heart. I have been guilty of a lot of the ones listed here.
I ask my wife to pick up extra treats for my girls when she goes to the grocery store.
I actually made a pot of oatmeal today for my girls to have on a cold blustery day.
I'm continuously thinking what I can take out to them as a treat.

I know the feeling is mutual because every time I go out to the pen all 18 run out to greet me.
And one that I do is to eat less of something so I have more leftovers to give them.
Yea, I spoil them but they repay me with beautiful healthy eggs.

 

[GodofPecking]

When you dice up their scraps or say night night as you close their coop door at night!

Only then ? I talk to mine constantly. I think it helps them read my calm mood, or maybe know if I am cross with them.