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

[lazy gardener]

When you tell your friend: "I need to get rid of some hens so I can hatch some eggs." And she totally understands.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

When you have started to click train your chickens to return to the coop when you spot a hawk through your binoculars 10 miles away.

By using a dog clicker and meal worm treats

great idea!

 

[GldnValleyHens]

When the same day you lose a chicken because of a predator or unfortunate death, you set out to replace the chicken immediately, because now you only have 14 chickens, and you need more than that.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

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When you keep the old tires from your car laying around for over a year because you know you will eventually turn them into dust baths when you stop procrastinating and re-do the coop and run, which I finally did

I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to steal that old tire dust bath idea

Or when I feel panic rising up when my parents say we’re taking a 2 week vacation. Nuuuu! I refuse to leave my chickens In the care of anyone else for two whole weeks!

2 weeks?! I get crazy worried when I have to leave them in someone else’s care for even one night.

 

[Abriana]

I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to steal that old tire dust bath idea

2 weeks?! I get crazy worried when I have to leave them in someone else’s care for even one night.

Ikr. It’s killing me. Very slowly.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...
You live under a 5-Hen-0-Rooster limit law so you start searching for a place in the country so as to increase your flock size

Or you just raise your chickens in your basement, like 3 roosters, so the cops don't hear them crowing. Seriously I know a lady who does this

 

[PotatoWaffles]

I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to steal that old tire dust bath idea

That's fine! I stole it from someone else

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Or you just raise your chickens in your basement, like 3 roosters, so the cops don't hear them crowing. Seriously I know a lady who does this

Smart lady. I wish I had a finished basement.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

When you have 36 chicken eggs and 8 duck eggs in the incubator plus 4 ducks in the brooder chickens in the chicken house and 9 ducks...you go to rural king and come home with this.....enough said

 

[Henrik Petersson]

When you have chickens in your backyard!