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

[Carolyn252]

Definitely qualify: Two days ago, I noticed some slimy trails around the chickens' food bowl that's out in the run. So that night, after being all comfy for the evening in my nightie and a good book for a few hours, I got up around midnight and got all dressed in my long pants and long sleeved top and a kerchief for my head and long rubber gloves and grabbed a flashlight and a grocery-plastic bag and headed for the coop so I could look for any slugs. Found about two dozen of them all over the food bowl and nearby. DISGUSTING. Picked them all up, tossed them in the plastic bag, tied up the bag and tossed it out in the trash bin.

Last night, I did the same thing. DH and I had been watching a movie on tv for two hours and at midnight I stopped in the middle, got all dressed in my slug-catching outfit and caught about ten of the yucky things.

The complete coverup outfit is to thwart the mosquitoes; the kerchief for any spiderwebs that spring up overnight despite my daily overhead sweeps with the broom.

Then it's back in the house for a complete scrub-up and back to the nightie and the movie.

Those slugs were huge. No wonder; eating organic, high-quality grains and protein and stuff.

How crazy do you have to be to actually be looking forward to tonight's midnight slug hunt?

 

[FluffyColor]

When you try to incubate an egg in your hands.(Guilty.)
When you store a paper towel,a tuperware,and a ribbon in a draw under your computer and are rummaging through the house to see if there is anything you can use to make a non-elertric bator that can slide under your bed!(So your parents won't notice it.)(Extra Guilty)
You go into the 4-H building at the county fair and head straight for the baby chicks.Even though your dad is allergic to them,you ask,"are they for sale?"(Extra extra guilty)

 

[LittleFeat]

If you'd prefer to catch slugs while you recline all nice and comfy in the house, try putting some beer in a coke bottle trap. The slugs crawl in and drown. You cut a coke bottle in half, turn the cut end around and insert it into the other end so that the small opening is inserted into the other section. Then when they crawl in to get the beer, they can't crawl back out. Put the beer in there and let them have a happy little party....at least until they decide it's time to go home! I used to set these up around my garden and after a few nights, discard the coke bottle complete with about 50 slugs!

 

[RedHead]

If your mail lady leaves a KFC bag full of egg cartons hanging from the flag on your mailbox with a card inside addressed "To The Chicken Lady"

 

[maf2008]

You seperate "eating eggs" (cute eggs nice color, great shape) from "eating eggs" (smaller lopsided, icky color....)

and tell your family don't eat the eggs on that shelf! I'm hatching again soon!

and you open free range eggs on store shelves and DREAM of cute chicks and what color will they be????

yes I am a crazy chicken lady!!!!

 

[FluffyColor]

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Partially guilty

 

[chixrus]

if you nicknamed your bantam 'popcorn the parrot' cuz she will sit on your shoulder

 

[chixrus]

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when i was little, i'd take a robins egg that was on the ground (it was pre-cracked too), put a sock in the microwave, and try to hatch it using a luke-warm sock

 

[hildymarie]

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Now, I hadn't thought of this one....

We thought of this but had to restrain ourselves. Was going to get one for the chickens and one for the pigs.

Nice to know we're not alone in our thinking.

 

[horsejody]

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If you save the slugs, will the chickens eat them?