Kat, I don't have much to say about the "situation" but I do have lots of warm hugs and wishes for a good vacation for you and your DH.
And Jethro can't help it. She doesn't mean it personally. It must be rough on a poor chicken to be so driven by hormones like that.
....not that any of US have ever had a time in our lives when hormones rules us, of course. Nope, no way. Nuh uh. No how. Didn't happen. Musta been somebody else yer talking about... Right?