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

[micstrachan]

You play fetch with the dog while the girls are free ranging not only to exercise the dog, but to deter predators.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

When your youngest DD and spouse gest you this cool hand made (by someone they know) rooster ornament for you yard and the oldest kid is saying "I hate chickens" and the rest of the family laughs. FYI the youngest DD has rooster decorations all over her house and is talking about getting chickens. I need to get her out there with my chickens..... She has not visited my coop yet but did meet Miss Jenny pullet when I brought her in the house. I usually go to her house and my chickens are not very old, just started laying.

Pictures of the chicken ornament please

 

[BYCforlife]

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...
You make everybody take off all of their shoes when them come into your house!!!

Haha! Yeah, speaking of that, there were so many people walking into my dirty garage in their socks to visit my puppy. I washed EVERY INCH of my house floor possible after they all left.

 

[It takes alkines]

You know you’re a backyard chicken owner when... you go to the store to buy fruit and you come back with all the 1/2 priced lettuce

YES!

 

[It takes alkines]

...when everyone is showing photos of their kids, and you know you have photos of your own kids somewhere within the 10,000 ones of chickens...

 

[Thing2]

...When you go to put the chickens up after dark and they're making little sleepy noises and you want to spend the night in the coop with them!

 

[jeria]

Pictures of the chicken ornament please

Have to charge my camera. It also fits on a post to put in the ground, which is frozen solid right now. Will try to post one tomorrow.

 

[sylviethecochin]

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...
You make everybody take off all of their shoes when them come into your house!!!

Possibly a Western PA farm thing, but all of my family I've ever visited has this rule. Until I visited my boyfriend's family the first time, I had no idea that this wasn't universal. Most houses near where I live have a separate sort of room (a mudroom, if you like) for shoe storage.

Honestly, I think people who don't are weird. Gravel and muck and grass clippings and road salt, cigarette butts if you live in town...

 

[sylviethecochin]

When you hear excited cheeping and drop a three-hundred dollar laptop on the floor in your rush to get out the door because it sounds like there's something out there with the chicks and if the neighbour's cat is out there again you're gonna commit felinicide...

 

[BantyChooks]

When the only pictures in your phone are of your chickens and there's NONE of your family!

I don't have a phone, but my camera is full of feathered critters and none of the human kind.