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Title: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 03, 2010, 19:41
Hi all have now had my girls for 2 weeks and love them more than I ever loved th ex husband  :lol:

I just wondered though if I'm normal. I have to tell everyone that I meet that I keep chickens, completely random people in the street, on the bus, in the supermarket!!!!!

Is this normal, will I grow out of it  :lol:

Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: karlooben on May 03, 2010, 19:55
ummm nope
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: min200 on May 03, 2010, 19:56
ummm nope

 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I disagree its a great conversation opener!!   :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 03, 2010, 20:04
Well I think so too Min200, however the people in my area apparently are not chicken lovers (I don't understand how!!) and therefore I just tend to get very strange looks and silence.
 :lol:

Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: min200 on May 03, 2010, 20:10
Thats because they are all a bit odd! 

Not liking chickens indeed ::) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: Flowerpower136 on May 03, 2010, 20:29
I'm the same, can bore for England on chickens, and my girls in particular. :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: Elcie on May 03, 2010, 20:54
I was when I saw someone from work at the local market that I realised I might be a little strange.  I just mentioned that I had been able to get a bag of cauliflower leaves for free from the veg stall for the chickens and she said 'oh you and your chickens' in an exasperated tone.  Surely they are not fed up of hearing about them are they?!!
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 03, 2010, 21:09
I really think I'm going to have re-evaluate my friends and family!

Love me and my chickens or be gone  :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: Nails on May 03, 2010, 21:27
I talk about my chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, cats, dog and snakes to anyone that will listen!!!!!!
I did a training course a few months back on presentation skills, my 20 min presentation was on the life cycle of an egg, from being laid to hatching a chick, 20 mins really wasn't long enough!!!!! I could have gone on for at least anothe hour!
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 03, 2010, 21:30
Nails I'm so glad its not just me. I'm at uni doing mental health nursing (nothing chicken related there) and we had to do an impromptu presentation on any subject we chose last week. I delighted my fellow students with a ten min chat on my girls including their likes dislikes bedtime etc. Never have I had so many strange looks!!!!
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: joyfull on May 03, 2010, 21:39
You are perfectly normal and no you will not grow out of it  :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 03, 2010, 21:41
Thank you Joyfull  :)

I shall accept that the chickens are now the love of my life and therefore I may talk about them to whomever and whenever I wish ::)
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: joyfull on May 03, 2010, 21:43
thats exactly what I do, and I chat to turkeys, ducks and geese  ;)  :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: graces-chickens on May 03, 2010, 22:27
 :lol: Grace (age 4 just) told a random child in the Doctors surgery - 'I have chickens'  brain washed at such a young age.

I blurted it out to 2 men in House of Fraser today.... there was a picture of 3 eggs in the department store and well grace said that ones 'selinas egg' that one is 'purdys egg' and that one is 'biscuits egg' and these two men looked at her as if she had gone mad.  We then breezed passed them and i blurted out dont worry we have chickens...... did this make it better no they still look mighty puzzled .... ::) :D
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: TeaPots on May 03, 2010, 23:38
Thank you Joyfull  :)

I shall accept that the chickens are now the love of my life and therefore I may talk about them to whomever and whenever I wish ::)

The subject of choox is banned at my work... :wub: , until they want fresh eggs of course...THEN they talk chicken!  ::)

I cant tlk about them as much as I'd like, so I talk to them...for HOURS, and even THEY look at me oddly  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 04, 2010, 19:08
Uh Oh its spreading. My 9 year old daughter and her Nan took the dog out for a walk, and my daughter proceeded to stop every passer by and tell them we had chickens.  ::)

There is no going back now  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: Aunt Sally on May 04, 2010, 19:10
What makes you think that might not be normal  ::)
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 04, 2010, 19:19
Aunt Sally I now think its perfectly normal and wonderful, its all the non chicken lovers who appear to have a problem  ::)

We are chicken lovers and proud :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: madcat on May 04, 2010, 20:24
PS  why do you want to be normal?  :unsure: Normal = average = boring!  ::)  Be different, be happy!   :D
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: calamityjane77 on May 04, 2010, 21:19
Here here to that Madcat  ::)
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: twohens on May 05, 2010, 11:14
 :lol: This site is brilliant!! My neighbour phoned her husband at work to tell him I'd got hens!! :)
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: Aunt Sally on May 05, 2010, 15:15
ummm nope

Don't be daft Looby.  Of course it's normal for pet hen keepers  ::) ::) ::) :lol:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: dizzylizzie on May 05, 2010, 15:48
'NORMAL' is a cycle on a washing machine, and who wants to be that? :D
I love my chickens, i tell everyone i know i love my chickens, im not ashamed to say it,
all you have to do is pretend you dont see the 'glazed over' expression people have when you tell them in every little detail about your girls very funny and interesting day, they really do want to know, they just hide it well......and there is always here, a safe haven for people who love their pet chickens :D
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: birds in a basket on May 05, 2010, 17:02
I've always been considered wooky - now more so than ever - can't stop talking about them  :wub: :wub: :wub:  So I guess its a case of join the clan................
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: New shoot on May 05, 2010, 19:20
The people I work with say it must be like The Good Life at our house - raised beds, chickens and allotment as well..........I just smile and say I'm practising for when I have my small holding  ;)

Got a couple of them interested though and one of my friends at work is getting her chicks this week. She's getting 2 White Sussex and a Plymouth Rock and I've promised to be on hand for lunchtime visits to show her how tis done.

Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: nervous newbie on May 05, 2010, 20:27
I haven't even got my girls yet, and i'm already telling everyone i work with!!! I can see now this may get worse :ohmy:
Title: Re: Am I normal????
Post by: joyfull on May 06, 2010, 08:17
I haven't even got my girls yet, and i'm already telling everyone i work with!!! I can see now this may get worse :ohmy:

Not may get worse it certainly will get worse, in fact it's not worse it's just normal for a chicken lover  :lol: