You know you love your chickens when...

[BBQJOE]

When you need to see a shrink because you and your rooster aren't getting along.

 

[DIY Chick]

It is a powerpoint slide, and I can't get it to upload - sorry

 

[rIrs roost]

When you need to see a shrink because you and your rooster aren't getting along.

now that's a good one. How about going to marriage counseling with one of your hens?

 

[ChatKath47]

I always says to them "Good Girls!!" and get an appreciative "cluck"...

 

[Peanutsmomma]

When you need to see a shrink because you and your rooster aren't getting along.

LOL!!!! Love it!!

 

[applebutter14]

when in public you call them your children and or your babies...

you cry when they lay their 1st egg because you now know they are no longer babies- they are grown women.(same thing with rooster but only when they have their 1st crow)

 

[GodofPecking]

You know you love your chickens when....
- you go dumpster diving for louvered doors to use as shutters on the run to keep out the wind and rain
- you add another 800 sq ft to the outdoor run so your SIX hens will have more room!
- you won't go to the beach with your husband because your regular chicken-sitter is not available
- you make a poster of them complete with names and photos and hang it on the coop
- you keep a spreadsheet by hen of egg production (forced to stop or go in for counseling!)

+1 dumpster diving. I even sold a coop I found and then used for a while. Everything is recycled, it is the only way to make anything at all. Bigger than your budget, better than your budget, stronger, smarter and longer lasting than any money you have, that's recycling.

+1 lots of room. net off some plants like spinach so they can grow in the coop and be nibbled on without destroyed. Also you can contact a tree lopper for infinite truckloads of FREE leaf litter mixed with wood chips. Critters that the chooks can eat will live in it, as they do in all leaf litter, and because the chooks can't always scour the litter clean of bugs the way they can for an empty yard, they'll have more bugs to eat in the long run.

Nothing like bugs for chooks. Except maybe expired cans of food from a neighbor. Opening a can of spaghetti is like opening a can of worms in so many ways !!! The politics it unleashes !!!!

Can we see the poster? That sounds so cute.

+1 and this IS NORMAL behavior. There are patents for many of these things, machines that the hens go into, and clockwork records the eggs and a ink footprint from the hen so you know which one it was, I kid you not, this is a real patent. But as for trap nests, there are threads everywhere about them, including on here.

when in public you call them your children and or your babies...

Honestly I don't like that, where people think there is a substitute for children, there is none, and it make me kind of think of it as a bit sad, mind you, I think people cannot ever be too much obsessed by chooks, or care for them too much, but kids are kids and everything else is not.

It is a powerpoint slide, and I can't get it to upload - sorry

Most computers will have a Print Screen key on the keyboard, press it when you have the ppt slide open and see if it puts a picture into your pictures or documents folder.

Lots of people keep track of which hens lay eggs and which do not, because that's how to work out which ones should go into the pot and which should get the praise and mealworms.





See ? you don't need therapy, you aren't crazy, you need to feed your psychosis with trap nests. OOps, probably not the best phrase there, but it's normal !!! trust me !!!

 

[chickdeez]

When you empty out your storage shed that holds Christmas decorations and turn the shed into a giant coop!... yes this happened!

 

[Ballerina Bird]

I always says to them "Good Girls!!" and get an appreciative "cluck"...:cd

I do that, too! I love how they answer.

 

[pmpkn42]

When you're a bad-*** Trauma ER Nurse in one of the biggest Emergency Rooms in the nation and all you can think of is a day off relaxing by "watching/being with" your chickens.

I swear, it's a calming/relaxing therapy for me...and I'm sure many others feel the same!