Single hen

[Plum]

You buy cauliflower with more leaves than cauliflower

 

you know you have chickens when you go to the fridge and find vegetable peelings and cabbage sewn with lengths of string

 

[Lesley]

....when you sow an extra row of spinach.....

 

....when you rush for a doctors appt. , park the car, plonk yourself in the waiting room.....and only then notice the chicken poop down the front of your coat

[Guest]

you know you have chickens when you find bits of aubiose EVERYWHERE, even down your cleavage!

[Cinnamon]

.............when you buy spinach when no one in the house likes spinach

 

.............when you shout 'chicken!' whenever you see a chicken on TV

 

..............when you get nothing but chicken shaped things for your birthday

 

.............when you eat at least 1 egg a day

[Looney]

 

 

...when you save the last remnants of uneaten baby porridge and s"Ooops, word censored!"e into bowl on kitchen side, add crumbs from bottom of weetabix wrapper after breakfast, crusts and crumbs after lunch, apple core from mid-afternoon, veg s"Ooops, word censored!"s after dinner and take great pleasure in turning it into 'Chickens Delight'!

[Looney]

you know you have chickens when you find bits of aubiose EVERYWHERE, even down your cleavage!

 

[Christian]

you know you have chickens when you find bits of aubiose EVERYWHERE, even down your cleavage!

 

Glad I'm not the only one!

 

You know you have chickens when you find yourself buying hundreds of cans of sweetcorn 'in water, no sugar/salt added'

[Redwing]

You are sitting in the car with the heater blowing on your feet and the whole car fills with the smell of chicken poo

[Cinnamon]

..................when you never,ever wear white

[Sheilaz]

....you tell fellow pricers in the charity shop to charge double for anything hen or egg related....and they do, without asking why!

[Christian]

So that's why I pay so much for my MASSIVE collection of egg cups!

[hillfamily]

 

You know you have chickens when you find yourself buying hundreds of cans of sweetcorn 'in water, no sugar/salt added'

 

Ocado must think we really love sweetcorn

 

 

..................when you never,ever wear white

 

so true :D......I bought a pair of white jeans last year in a mad moment and still haven't worn them

[Plum]

 

And you know you have chickens when you start taking photos of poo.

[hillfamily]

 

And you know you have chickens when you start taking photos of poo.

 

if you say so

[stoice]

...when people STOP asking how the chooks are - because you actually tell them... then their eyes glaze over

...when you become an 'expert' on poo!

...when you spend more money on cabbages, sweetcorn, greens etc than the rest of your food bill... and you only popped in for a pint of milk!

...when farms and other peoples gardens suddenly are much more interesting with chickens in them

...when you dream of chickens

...when you look at spare branches, bits of wood -even furniture!- as something for the girls to play with

...when you 'accidently' (deliberately) cook extra pasta

...when you have NO lawn!

[Plum]

...when you look at spare branches, bits of wood -even furniture!- as something for the girls to play with

 

I do that all the time

[MadMitch]

When you're out with friends and leave them early as you don't want the girls to miss their afternoon snack.

[chelsea]

......when you are running out into the garden at stupid o'clock in a flourescent pink dressing gown & unkempt hair shouting "ssshhh" to a bunch of chickens!

[The Dogmother]

When you scrounge 'outer leaves' from the veg stalls at the market.... for the hens (and bunnies)

 

When you have more calendars of hens on your office wall than pictures of family

[dancing cloud]

When you start to get frostbite sitting really still in the freezing cold for over half an hour, just because your top chook has snuggled up for a sleep on your knee!

[Christian]

Now that is true devotion

[Mutrix Farmers]

....when Son says "I'll make my own breakfast shall I?" while I make the girl's porridge

 

....when wellies become a permanent feature by the back door

[The Dogmother]

... when the dog prefers chicken poo to her own food

[chickencam]

When you always have cake in the house

[Egluntyne]

....when a friend is preparing a meal and you take home her potato peelings and outer cabbage leaves.

 

Well.....it would be a shame to waste them.