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

[lazy gardener]

When you are out working in the workshop and it's unheated ....15 degrees F.

Nope...unless 'workshop' doubles as a coop or brooder is in there somewhere?

Cap is making something for her chickens in her work shop. I just know she is. Perhaps she's even working on a MHP frame for her spring chicks.

When you single-handedly cause stocks in Sunbeam to soar?

If only I'd bought Sunbeam stock before the MHP craze took off.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

What’s MHP?

 

[BBZZZZTT]

What’s MHP?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update.956958/
It's a way of using a heating pad as a fake mama hen for warming chicks instead of a heat lamp.
I am getting my first chicks in April and already have my mhp all ready to go. Hope it goes well!

 

[TwoCrows]

Just tell them that you never hatch rooster eggs. That way you get more pullets.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when your friend gives you a BYC bumper sticker

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

....when you're more excited about going to poultry shows than anything else in the year...

 

[TwoCrows]

Co-workers run the other way when they see you coming because they know all you are going to talk about is your chickens!

 

[Chickassan]

When you have a dedicated poop towel.

 

[LordDuckWings]

When you're washing that same food tray everyday...

 

[CandiceJ]

DUMPSTER DIVING! It's actually a professional sport!

Yes! Hubby does it all the TIME!