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

[lazy gardener]

When you save the shrimp shells, and snip them up with scissors before giving them to the birds.

When you give your hubby the daily egg tally, and he "at least" pretends to care.

When you have a separate egg carton in the fridge just for "family eggs". The other stacks of full cartons in the fridge are "for customers."

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

...when you hate dogs but are considering getting one to protect your birds

 

[aliciaplus3]

When you save the shrimp shells, and snip them up with scissors before giving them to the birds.

When you give your hubby the daily egg tally, and he "at least" pretends to care.

When you have a separate egg carton in the fridge just for "family eggs". The other stacks of full cartons in the fridge are "for customers."

Or your hubby brought home a full size refrigerator just for eggs and it's full.... and the kids know to only get our eating eggs out of the kitchen frig, so "we have no eggs" doesn't mean there are none just none sorted for family consumption..... lol

 

[Boonie Stomper]

You have your chickens with you on a hot day when you need to defrost the freezer so they can enjoy the scrap ice and later discards...

 

[lazy gardener]

When you bring the watermelon rind back from church, and freeze it so it can be doled out on hot days.

 

[Faraday40]

When you bring the watermelon rind back from church, and freeze it so it can be doled out on hot days.

Oh Yes, we've done that!

Of course anytime I think of Chicken + watermelon, I think of the time I gave them a sculpted watermelon. I couldn't figure out why they were not eating their fav treat.

Later I realized why...

They probably thought the watermelon was trying to eat them!

 

[igorsMistress]

When you buy the biggest melon possible so you can share a cool treat with your girls on a hot afternoon.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

When your MIL thinks both you and her son have lost your minds

 

[BarredRockMom]

When you wake up thinking about all of the things that you have to do that day at home, briefly contemplate taking a vacation day only to simultaneously realize that you'd just spend the time with the chickens anyway!

 

[Chickassan]

When you have a raccoon in your yard but no weapon so you improvise and charge the thing growling like a looney.