You know you're addicted to chickens when...

[sunnychooks]

You feel like a kid looking through a toy catalog every time the newest Murray McMurray catalog arrives in the mail.

 

[MichiganWoods]

You install an expensive ceiling fan in their coop, hang Christmas lights all around the coop interior, buy actual bird toys to hang all around so they don't get bored, start a worm farm in your basement so you've got fresh "treats" to give them year-round, buy crickets, grubs and other insects you wouldn't normally touch with a ten foot pool just so they can have goodies during the winter, purchase 10 yards of dirt to refill their run area with periodically and shovel it all by hand... Oh, and when you go grocery shopping, you eye the vegetables and wonder which ones your chickens would like (rather than which ones you can force your kids to eat).

I'm seriously ashamed to admit I've done all that.

Oh and I forgot to add: Gut an old refrigerator and transform it into a heavy-duty incubator. Give the chickens their very own laptop out in the coop with a webcam so you can stream live Chick/Chicken Cam to the internet. (Yes we did that too.

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[Omran]

When you build a very good coops with electric/ insullation and you still don't have a real barn for your stuff.

Omran

 

[chiknwhisperer]

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lol I've done that and I slow down when peoplpe put things out by the road to see if I can use them for the chickens. I NEVER used to do that.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

When your Photobucket or Flickr account has so many chicken pics that you're too embarrassed to invite your family to see the kids' pics that are online.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

Oh! When you see someones chicken to close to a busy road so you stop and talk to it nicer then you would your own kids till it goes all the way back in its yard.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

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None of my kids pics are on my photobucket.

 

[tinners204]

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Yep done that!!!!!!

 

[sunnychooks]

When you decide to add 4 new little fuzzybutts to your family.
No, six...
Well, maybe 12.
Oh, look! Minimum order is 25.
Ohhh!!! A free rare breed chick!

I. Must. Have. More. Chickens!

 

[chiknwhisperer]

DH just shakes his head when I start figuring up how many I should order as soon as I can place another one lol. I'm craving fuzzy butts lol.