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

[Fields Mountain Farm]

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

Ducks count!
I used to have one in the barn to monitor my goats...

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Here's one...
With a family of 4 (plus a college kid who floats in occasionally) and 12 chickens, we're going to have way too many eggs come summer. I'm planning, honestly, to just give them away to coworkers and the food pantry. That said, I gave my first dozen away to a coworker the other day. Few days later, he came to me and told me they'd decided on bacon and eggs for dinner. Said he loved the color of the yolks, and the flavor... but his wife wouldn't touch the green eggs. Cause they're green.
I'm like, they're all ready for Easter! LOL

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Here's one...
With a family of 4 (plus a college kid who floats in occasionally) and 12 chickens, we're going to have way too many eggs come summer. I'm planning, honestly, to just give them away to coworkers and the food pantry. That said, I gave my first dozen away to a coworker the other day. Few days later, he came to me and told me they'd decided on bacon and eggs for dinner. Said he loved the color of the yolks, and the flavor... but his wife wouldn't touch the green eggs. Cause they're green.
I'm like, they're all ready for Easter! LOL

Too funny! I've had people ask if they're green because they're moldy!

 

[Krazyquilts]

When you make your Thanksgiving guests promise to bring all their food preparation scraps for the chickens, and then scrape off all the leftover food from the dinner plates and have your guests feed the chickens mashed potatoes.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

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!)

I’ve had that happen too. The police even wanted me to catch the chickens for them

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

When you make your Thanksgiving guests promise to bring all their food preparation scraps for the chickens, and then scrape off all the leftover food from the dinner plates and have your guests feed the chickens mashed potatoes.

Nice!!

I’ve had that happen too. The police even wanted me to catch the chickens for them

Did ya?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

By the time I got home they were already put away by their owner. But the people around the block from me had a 3 year old hen who would free range and almost everyday we’d have people knocking on our door asking if we were missing a chicken.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

You know you’re a backyard chicken owner when everyone in town refers to your house as “The Chicken House”. We only had 10. Someone else in town had 30.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

You know you’re a backyard chicken owner when everyone in town refers to your house as “The Chicken House”. We only had 10. Someone else in town had 30.

When you get a phone call and the stranger on the other end saying "the co-op gave me your number, why is my chicken sick?"

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

@orrpeople please come tell about your three chicks that have wrapped the entire family around their little toes?