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

[Emmalion]

You spend your only days off from work building them their new coop.

After hatching out 5 new chicks this past weekend you decide its not enough and pick up 6 more at TSC.... Then cry when you find one passed this morn. Might have to take another trip to TSC my new coop can fit lots of chickens

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

If you just realized in 3 weeks you will have over sixty chickens. Sixty-one if they send exactly my order and no more.
I am only legally allowed 24...
Granted,I am not keeping the red broilers (8), no matter the gender. So now its 53.
The other newcomers (40 in number) will be straight run, so take out half of them (now 20) and add to my current 13. That brings me down to 33.
Half of the new ones (12 pullets) I am going to sort out, rehoming those who are too small or the wrong color (minus another 6), so now I am down to about 27, assuming half won't be right.
Add back in 3, because I will keep a few roos. 30.
But, according to BYC's laws of chicken math, I only have to count hens, so take the roosters out (3 new, 2 old) and I am down to only 25!
And since many will be chicks living in a brooder, some of those don't even count for a few months, right?
Room to grow, I think!

Of course the reason I ordered them was to breed them...

 

[StarStruck203]

you might be a crazy chicken lady/gent if...

...when your at school and the teacher tells you to do research and type 5 pages on it by tomorrow, and instead you go - to BYC.com ; hatchery cites ; and look up incubators and hatching eggs instead.

...the first thing you tell your 'special someone' after you havnt seen them 3 days is something about your chicken, such as laying an egg. or your rooster crowing funny... and it hurts your feelings when they look at you funny.

hahah

 

[Qi Chicken]

I had a bad day at work. A bad week really. I got home and unloaded on my husband who said "Go sit with your chickens, that will help" Clue #1! I crack a beer and go sit with the chickens. Pick up the roo and hold him for awhile. I love how he finally settles in and relaxes, I think the poor guy feels a lot of stress taking care of all his ladies all the time. And then I find myself singing him a song. I can't sing. AT ALL> BUt he seems to like it! He closes his eyes at least. "Oh Junie B, you're big and strong, and I will love you, all day long....!" Officially CRAZY!!!! I have to say though, I felt much better!

 

[KBChicks]

If your mother calls and tells you she'll have you committed if she hears you brought another chicken in your house
(she heard through the grapevine I was getting a few more fuzzy butts)

Well....they HAVE to stay in the house til they feather out! sheesh....

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

Quote:
Doesn't every one have one?

 

[klmclain1]

If you put the babies in your bra to keep them warm and cozy!

 

[hippiehen]

You take your rooster to the town clinic so you can weigh him on "the good scale." (12 pounds OMG)

"Good morning! Did you have an appointment?"

"No, I just need to pop this big boy on your scale for a second, don't mind me!" Lalalala laaa

 

[Naughty]

when a family member offers to take your 5 year old and the first thing you think about is 'WOW i can finally get that (insert random task here) done"

when you go to tsc to see if they have the pullets you want - so you can stick some chicks under your banty who has gone broody and the eggs arent any good... so she wont get depressed (thats my story and im stickin to it)

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

If, while camping, you see a chicken shape in the hot coals of the camp fire.
And then spend 20 minutes staring at the coals trying to decide if the comb is wrong or the tail too fluffy to resemble your buff orpington.

Or your roomate only smiles and shakes his head when you inform him that the yard back there (that you drove past going at least 45) contained a barred rock rooster, a buff orpington pullet, and a columbian, but are sad to announce you couldn't tell what BREED the columbian pullet was because her head was turned away and you didn't have time to get a good look at her legs.