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

[Brahma Chicken5000]

You know you’re a (crazy) BackYard chicken owner when... you cluck to your chicken and she actually responds and you have a whole conversation with her. For multiple days in a row mind you.

 

[Ninja Squirrel]

When your work colleague sneers and asks you in a really condescending tone "do you think they all have their own little personalities?"

And you reply with "do you think your children do?"

 

[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

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

...when there’s a bad storm so you go and stand out in the pouring rain to make sure your babies are not disturbed by the storm. Or when they wake you up at 3 am clucking that something scared them you stay with them for the next half hour getting them all to go back to sleep.

 

[BYC910]

Your stove has two pots going on it...

On the left, chicken soup (soup with chicken in it for people to eat)
On the right, "chicken soup" (meat and veggie scraps, including the carrot peels from the making of the chicken soup, FOR the chickens).

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Haha! Good one.

I got one:
You know you're a backyard chicken owner when you barely have any grass in your backyard.

What's grass when you realize the smell has followed you in the dollar store and the spots on the floor came from your rubber chicken coop boots

 

[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

 

[jthornton]

When chickens nap in your lap.

JT

 

[ChocolateMouse]

When your perfectly normal suburban neighbors bring you egg cartons. When a chicken gets loose somewhere and the city sends a police officer to your house to see if it's yours. (True story... And it wasn't mine!)

When your post office worker looks at you're crazy because you went up to the counter and asked to pick up the box of birds.

 

[MIchickenlady]

when it makes you feel all warm n fuzzy that your chickens run TOWARD you when they see you
seriously...its not like my family does that! lol

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

...when you enjoy sitting out with your chickens and talking to them.
(They are quite the conversationalists!)

I’m so happy that I’m not the only one who does that