You know you love your chickens when...

[chickrunfun]

you know you love your chicken when...
You notice your sweet lil babe isn't herself. So you give her a check up; check her vent, feel her belly, her crop, and find she may have an issue so you give her a nice warm bath, really good around her vent so you can see if she's blocked up. Give her olive oil, some calcium just in case to "get things moving" monitor her for a whole day, text the wife ...again... call the vet (who by the way is more concerned with giving you FREE ADVICE over the phone than getting a buck) talks you through the symptoms you report to her...including poop I.D. pic you send her through email...and what to do to help you make it through the night till you can get to her first thing in the morning...
AND both you and the wifey take off from work to take her in. Yup.
We find out what's what tomorrow.

 

[BBQJOE]

When you hold off one more day before processing.

 

[solomine]

Seriously, how could anyone hate chickens???

I was pretty heartbroken to say the least... My jaw dropped when he said that!

To be fair, I was raising chicks in a brooder inside the bedroom... their constant rustling and (to me, sweet) cheeping at the break of dawn was driving him nuts.
BUT how could he hate those cute babies?

He told me he could never understand my love for chickens and that they were stupid and useless compared to dogs! I was appalled! Where do you get all those eggs, HMM? Almost all of his favorite foods have eggs in em. And clearly, he's never had the wonderful experience of a baby bird treating him like its mama...

But, that was the one and only time. I think he was just really, really tired of being woken up by the chicks (I, on the other hand, sleep like the dead). I would be very cranky too.


He thinks I'm crazy obsessed with chickens...

OK, I'll give him that

 

[Ballerina Bird]

I was pretty heartbroken to say the least... My jaw dropped when he said that!

To be fair, I was raising chicks in a brooder inside the bedroom... their constant rustling and (to me, sweet) cheeping at the break of dawn was driving him nuts.
BUT how could he hate those cute babies?

He told me he could never understand my love for chickens and that they were stupid and useless compared to dogs! I was appalled! Where do you get all those eggs, HMM? Almost all of his favorite foods have eggs in em. And clearly, he's never had the wonderful experience of a baby bird treating him like its mama...

But, that was the one and only time. I think he was just really, really tired of being woken up by the chicks (I, on the other hand, sleep like the dead). I would be very cranky too.


He thinks I'm crazy obsessed with chickens...

OK, I'll give him that

Well, that is very fair-minded of you.

It is interesting how chickens inspire such strong feelings in people. I know some people who have an actual aversion to them; I guess it's hard to understand if your own reaction is quite different.

 

[User395221]

and (to me, sweet) cheeping at the break of dawn

I love my chooks, but I wouldn't find that endearing either

 

[yochickiemomma]

I'm not aloud to have chickens in the house . Hubby tells me I'm a crazy chicken lady. My bff thinks in crazy too and she has chickens too but they don't 'talk' to her like mine do.

 

[GodofPecking]

... when you feel mortally wounded and are considering a break-up when your SO tells you he hates those darn chickens!

I wouldn't care too much about that BECAUSE when you first fall in love there are things you love about your SO

the way their nose crinkles when they talk
the funny way they walk
their stupid laugh
their chickens

those are the things that you love about them. Then when you change and don't like them, then you realize that you hate some things about them like

the way their nose crinkles when they talk
the funny way they walk
their stupid laugh
their chickens

It's not your chickens, it's your SO 's culture

marry someone from a country where people stay together if it bothers you.

 

[ChatKath47]

One of my Amerucanas sits on the back door step on the patio and watches the window to see if I'm coming out. She cranes her neck, looks up at the window and when I come to the door, she hops down and struts around the patio...this usually results in my having to do a little cleaning as the other two usually come join her and when all three sit on the patio....mess occurs!

 

[Adalida]

ChatKath47, I feel your pain...it started for me with one of my Buff orpingtons who decided the porch was a great place to hang out, then the other chickens followed her lead, now the Muscovy duck joins them...fortunately the other ducks are too clumsy to climb three porch steps. I now have a mop and bucket permanently on the porch.

 

[realsis]

You know you LOVE♡♡♡ chickens when YOU BUY A BRAND NEW BABY MONITOR TO PUT INTO THE COOP AT NIGHT SO YOU CAN HEAR IF ANY THING GETS INTO THE COOP AND GOES AFTER MY GIRLS WHILE I'M SLEEPING! I also have extra batteries for it just in case. I can also carry it around the house to listen to them just incase a predator comes around!!