You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...

[Birdsong 82]

When you enjoy hard boiled eggs everyday!

 

[lazy gardener]

"you know you're a backyard chicken owner when..."

You had your spouse help you band chicken legs after roost/dark, and then went in cleaned up and went to bed... only to wake up 45 minutes later and worry about if the first few bands were too tight...

...then get up, goof off on BYC for a couple hours until you're sleepy, and then go out to check to see if you caught the critter that you've been after...

... take a few steps and think "Lord please let this light let me see a copperhead before I step on it with this inadequate footwear"....

.... take a several steps toward the coop, look up and think "Wow! that moon and the clouds tonight are amazing"...

... take a few steps and think " hmmm, where is that cotton tail rabbit I've seen out here by the coop the last few nights, when checking the coop" ... because you can't sleep ...

... take a few steps and think "Lord thank you for not having bears, wolves, or mountain lions where I live" ...

...get to the coop and see the trap is still as it is, and think "whatever, I'm going to bed"...

.... take a few steps, look up and think again "Wow! that moon and the clouds tonight are amazing"...

... take a few steps and think "Lord please let this light let me see a copperhead before I step on it with this inadequate footwear"....

... stop on the porch and simultaneously think: "Wow! that moon and the clouds tonight are amazing" and "Lord thank you for protecting me from copperheads while I walked to the coop and back in this inadequate footwear"....

... then come in and type all of that up on the "you know you're a BYC owner" thread... because you KNOW other "chicken people" have done something similar

When you realize that your flock and your gardens give you a front row seat to enjoying the miraculous creation in your own back yard. B/C if you didn't have a flock or garden, you'd probably not be out at 0:dark 30 to enjoy the splendor of it all. I thank God for the joy of it all, even when it's not all joyful. Poop, predators, rain, snow, and ice.

 

[igorsMistress]

When you realize that your flock and your gardens give you a front row seat to enjoying the miraculous creation in your own back yard. B/C if you didn't have a flock or garden, you'd probably not be out at 0:dark 30 to enjoy the splendor of it all. I thank God for the joy of it all, even when it's not all joyful. Poop, predators, rain, snow, and ice.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

When you spill something in the kitchen, and think, "oh well, chickens treats!"

 

[Birdsong 82]

When you plant extra cherry tomatoes in your garden because you know they’re one of your chickens favorites

 

[Birdsong 82]

When you are partially deaf and you’re right ear because your rooster makes it a point to Crow right when you walk by him roosting in the morning while filling feeders

 

[llombardo]

When you go back to work after a couple days off and actually miss the chickens and wonder what they are doing...

 

[Shorty22366]

I don't have any chickens. . yet. . but guilty of almost all of the above with my ducks
How about seriously considering buying a baby monitor with a camera cause I just need to know what's going on in the duck house at night

Got one in my chicken coop. More fun to watch than TV.

 

[Shorty22366]

GASP! They make baby monitors with cameras now?! (yea, Im old lol)
I'm looking them up...I LOVE that idea!!

You can type them into your phone so you can see them while you are away from home too. It is great.

 

[Shorty22366]

Your wife wanted a pair of these for Christmas...

I got the same ones. I love them.