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

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Or you forget to take your coop boots off before going back in the house

Or realize you didn't put them on to start with and are still in your houses slippers...

 

[deepbluesea]

When your granddaughter comes out of the bathroom and says, Noni the black hen is laying an egg in the litter box.. Again...
( Hen discovered the dog door!)

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Here's another one....When you find a clutch of eggs in the back window of hubby's TR7, he left his window down while it was in the carport for 2 wks last summer..

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

When you pick the berries off a shrub that they can no longer reach and give each of them one so they don’t miss out.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

When you pick the berries off a shrub that they can no longer reach and give each of them one so they don’t miss out.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Great topic.
I'm always doing stuff like this and thinking maybe this is a sign you have too many chickens.
Different set up then most here but we have hundreds of chickens that always free range so I can't relate to the going in the coop with wrong shoes on since all I have are all in one boots/shoes and when I set out the door I'm stepping in the coop.
I leave a dirt and chicken $*** trail in every store I go in.
The egg in pocket been there so many times. My place is like Easter egg hunts every day. I'm always finding on somewhere and sticking it in a shirt or hoody pocket only to find it later on. Even at times with my hand with it broken in my pocket while out in public.
Back to Easter hunting for a second.
Anyone ever found a broody stashed in a bush setting on a few chicken eggs, a goose egg and 3 bright colored Easter eggs?
Ok back to eggs. I'll see your tracking mud, egg in pocket and raise you....went to dollar store once of course tracked up their floors, found a egg in my pocket then went back to find a chicken in the back of my suv.
Stowaway chickens. Ever be at work on more then one occasion and someone spots a chicken in the parking lot to discover of course its one of yours to snuck to work with you.
Had one that was riding up in the frame of my truck.
Gave her away after couple days of it cause apparently she didn't like my place.
Compine a couple.... Anyone ever food eggs in the vehicle when a hen decided it was a good place to start a nest? Have someone else find it and try to explain while you have 3 eggs in your back floorboard?
Have any kids that don't want to eat eggs cause

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Great topic.
I'm always doing stuff like this and thinking maybe this is a sign you have too many chickens.
Different set up then most here but we have hundreds of chickens that always free range so I can't relate to the going in the coop with wrong shoes on since all I have are all in one boots/shoes and when I set out the door I'm stepping in the coop.
I leave a dirt and chicken $*** trail in every store I go in.
The egg in pocket been there so many times. My place is like Easter egg hunts every day. I'm always finding on somewhere and sticking it in a shirt or hoody pocket only to find it later on. Even at times with my hand with it broken in my pocket while out in public.
Back to Easter hunting for a second.
Anyone ever found a broody stashed in a bush setting on a few chicken eggs, a goose egg and 3 bright colored Easter eggs?
Ok back to eggs. I'll see your tracking mud, egg in pocket and raise you....went to dollar store once of course tracked up their floors, found a egg in my pocket then went back to find a chicken in the back of my suv.
Stowaway chickens. Ever be at work on more then one occasion and someone spots a chicken in the parking lot to discover of course its one of yours to snuck to work with you.
Had one that was riding up in the frame of my truck.
Gave her away after couple days of it cause apparently she didn't like my place.
Compine a couple.... Anyone ever food eggs in the vehicle when a hen decided it was a good place to start a nest? Have someone else find it and try to explain while you have 3 eggs in your back floorboard?
Have any kids that don't want to eat eggs cause

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Great topic.
I'm always doing stuff like this and thinking maybe this is a sign you have too many chickens.
Different set up then most here but we have hundreds of chickens that always free range so I can't relate to the going in the coop with wrong shoes on since all I have are all in one boots/shoes and when I set out the door I'm stepping in the coop.
I leave a dirt and chicken $*** trail in every store I go in.
The egg in pocket been there so many times. My place is like Easter egg hunts every day. I'm always finding on somewhere and sticking it in a shirt or hoody pocket only to find it later on. Even at times with my hand with it broken in my pocket while out in public.
Back to Easter hunting for a second.
Anyone ever found a broody stashed in a bush setting on a few chicken eggs, a goose egg and 3 bright colored Easter eggs?
Ok back to eggs. I'll see your tracking mud, egg in pocket and raise you....went to dollar store once of course tracked up their floors, found a egg in my pocket then went back to find a chicken in the back of my suv.
Stowaway chickens. Ever be at work on more then one occasion and someone spots a chicken in the parking lot to discover of course its one of yours to snuck to work with you.
Had one that was riding up in the frame of my truck.
Gave her away after couple days of it cause apparently she didn't like my place.
Compine a couple.... Anyone ever food eggs in the vehicle when a hen decided it was a good place to start a nest? Have someone else find it and try to explain while you have 3 eggs in your back floorboard?
Have any kids that don't want to eat eggs cause

My set up is similar...I do have a coop with nest boxes but it always stays open and my chickens, ducks, turkeys..All free range 24/7. They roost or bed down where they please. But it's always muddy or dusty dry. No grsss just woods..
And yes, the egg hunt is an ongoing game here. I'll find 4 or 5 in the boxes but no telling where the other 30 or 40 hens have hid theirs..

 

[MillersFarm]

Oh man.. You know when your a backyard chicken owner when stay up all night trying to avoid chickens fighting each other for the best place to roost constantly moving them until they've all settled... And maybe stay a couple for minutes juuust to make sure everyone's happy with their spot

 

[Granny Hatchet]

When you wear your good shoes into the chicken pen. GC

Or your chicken shoes to the drs and they ask you to take them off.