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

[WVduckchick]

Along that same line ... when the tv is playing soft music, but you hear a weird noise. So you turn off the tv and grab some binoculars to look out the back sliding door to peer at the coop through the freezing rain stuck to the glass. You can't see, so you go to the bedroom to peer out that window between the frozen rain on the window. Every thing is calm out there and you realize the noise was just a beat coming ftom the music on the tv.

I have binoculars next to my kitchen window!

Might want to get a few metal trashcans -- they work great for feed storage and the mice, moths, etc. won't get into it.

My mudroom is the laundry room/back porch. Not much room in there at the moment for shoes, but I did put one of those boot trays there for my mucky shoes. I've got a mountain of paint cans stored in there until I build shelving in the basement. And a metal trashcan full of straw and wood chips for the chicks I have in the kitchen. Most people come in the backdoor, so it works out ok.

I have a screened-in back porch that comes into the laundry room too. I have a tote just outside, on the porch, I keep my boots in. Last night it snowed several inches and the wind was so bad, it even blew a couple inches worth thru the screen, and filled my boots!

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I have binoculars next to my kitchen window!

I originally had them to watch birds (wild birds) and any animal that might wander into my yard. Now, I grab them to see the chickens if needed.

 

[Crooked Chicken]

My laundry room was, I think, at one time a back porch that got enclosed. It's now laundry room, junk collecting spot and bad weather smoking room. I also have binoculars and a few small bird books on the shelf above washer and dryer. I'm always trying to identify the birds at the feeders.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

When you are going to use your dad’s expensive camera to take pictures of your chickens to enter into a magazine contest.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

You know...
...when you just left work, it's almost sundown and you have a dinner seminar meeting that starts in 15 minutes but you're late because you detoured home just to lock the coop! But the hens were still out canoeing to catch the last few rays of sunlight so you also had to bring them in...

 

[Lazy Farmer]

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...
You spend more time looking around for chicken nick-knacks at the feed store than grabbing the chicken feed you came for.

 

[calichicken]

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...
You spend more time looking around for chicken nick-knacks at the feed store than grabbing the chicken feed you came for.
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And sometimes they have the BEST chicken and farm decor!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

When you are going to use your dad’s expensive camera to take pictures of your chickens to enter into a magazine contest.

Oh wow.... that is awesome! Good luck!
Keep us posted and if you don't mind, share some of the pics with us? I'd love to see what you enter.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Oh wow.... that is awesome! Good luck!
Keep us posted and if you don't mind, share some of the pics with us? I'd love to see what you enter.

When I get my sebrights in March I’ll be taking lots of pictures of them. Especially the cockerels.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

When you surf the web looking for more pictures of chickens to add to your albums.