You might be a crazy chicken lady/gent if...Go on, post yours!

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Also, you are a crazy chicken lady if the highlight thus far to your chicken loving life is that your hens finally layed enough eggs in a week to warrant selling a few dozen for the first time ever! And now this crazy chicken lady is counting down to my Dominique pullets I hatched beginning to lay and I tell EVERYONE I meet about my birdies...

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

I was out in the chicken yard picking up feathers and I thought to myself "There sure are a lot of people moulting right now. I mean chickens. Chickens are moulting. Not people."

 

[Momagain1]

you know you can sell rooster feathers for a pretty penny on ebay!!!

 

[annaraven]

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Or when you call home from vacation just to check on the chickens. Every day. From Italy to California.

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

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But then I'd have to give them up!
I've been hoarding feathers since I was 10. But I have recently considered selling feathers as hair ornaments, since its the new craze. As soon as I cut my hair, I am putting feathers in it. A few barred rock and some nice splash BLRW would be nice!

 

[yinepu]

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this is why we NEVER go on vacation.. I don't trust anyone with any of my critters!

 

[sumi]

It's 22:30, you're tucked up in bed with a young chicken sitting on your chest, getting a cuddle while stroking another youngster in a blanket next to your bed.
You get up in the morning, feed the chicks who sleep in the lounge, feed the youngsters who are waiting at the door, free the young house chickens who sleep in the bathroom, feed the mom(s) and chicks in the chickpen, feed the big hens and roo's who made it to the chicken coop. Kiss your DH, make coffee, check the BYC forum to see what's new. In that order.
When you move into an old semi-converted barn, borrow money to buy chickens, get a decent sum of money and spent most of it on building a chickpen, instead of putting in a bathroom and fixing the barn...
Eat your first meal of the day at 13:00 and give half of it to the chickens.
And this one's DH: Got home the other day and he was sitting at the computer with my nice new scarf fashioned into a little nest next to the computer with a hen busy laying an egg on it.

 

[Geckochick]

When you would lay in the grass in the orchard, talking with a few of the girls as they free range, with a camera and zoom lens resting on the ground as you try to get good shots.... And, my DH thought nothing of it, and even delivered me a coffee as I laid out there on my belly, in my PJ's... The neighbour did give me a funny look as she biked by, though.

 

[tclegg]

Basically all of the above---LOL I talk and kiss and hug and hand feed my "girls" and at night before bed I sit in the run with them and some of them sit in my lap and like for me to "rock" them to sleep..I then say "night-night ladies mommy loves you--sweet dreams--see you in the morning." I mention them in my prayers (along with my dog and cats) When I come out the door they all run to the fence line and wait for Mommy to come and fight over who gets lovins first. And my husband just shakes his head and laughes because I have such a close relationship with them I can basically turn them upside down around every which way and they do not mind--they totally trust me...And if that makes me a crazy chiken lady...well that is just fine....LOL

 

[tclegg]

Oh yeah I forgot to add--coming in every day saying 2 eggs today---3 eggs today--and my husband looking at me--3 eggs a day for a week now--we have 16 but only 4 are ready to lay...and he wants to know why the big deal..I say I my eggs are more precious to me than diamonds..it took my girls hard work and me hard work...Give me and egg any day...and everyday I will keep looking and counting...LOL