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

[CCUK]

There are only 3 color varieties recognized by the APA, buff, dark, and light. I didn’t even know there were other colors.

I've heard several different names for the colours. Gold laced, silver laced, lemon Pyle, cream to name but a few. I want some Colombian Brahmas. I've heard them called different things also!!

 

[Embden Geese]

Or when you turn your kid's Wendy house into a goose shelter lol

 

[Embden Geese]

It's a goldlaced. It could be a dark maybe. I have two exactly the same. I call them betty and boo! Lovely hens. So friendly but a pain for going broody.

My goose is exactly the same.

 

[CCUK]

Or when you turn your kid's Wendy house into a goose shelter lol

I have three full of hens!!

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

LOL! when you are upset and you go to the chicken coop for company

 

[betR2]

.... when you do the dishes twice a day, with a hose.

(As for the people-ones in the kitchen, sometimes they pile up a little. Hopefully, the desire to keep thinking of special foods and treats might wear off one day and I can get... anything else... done.) Picking herbs, sprouting seeds, idly hanging about watching antics, making porridge, chopping up yummy tossed salads, not to mention the actual fluffy-bum jobs. It all takes time. Update: I was making jam (a small quantity, luckily). I went to check the chooks and stopped to sort this and that and then pulled a few tender weeds for them and then wandered back into the house... oops. 'fonly I came back in about 5 mins earlier, my jam would still be spreadable.

 

[CCUK]

.... when you do the dishes twice a day, with a hose.

(As for the people-ones in the kitchen, sometimes they pile up a little. Hopefully, the desire to keep thinking of special foods and treats might wear off one day and I can get... anything else... done.) Picking herbs, sprouting seeds, idly hanging about watching antics, making porridge, chopping up yummy tossed salads, not to mention the actual fluffy-bum jobs. It all takes time.

So true!

 

[betR2]

When you go to a family gathering, and you show more pictures of your chickens than your kids!

Yep!
I went out to dinner with a friend and they asked to see pictures of our latest grandchild. I was quite embarrassed how many hen and chick pics there were before I found some grandchildren ones. oops

 

[Embden Geese]

Or when you let the geese in the house before you let in your family even though your family are scared of them

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Or when you let the geese in the house before you let your family even though your family are scared of them View attachment 1246242

Who could be scared of them?