Convincing Mom to Get Chickens: Part 2

[redhen]

77... if your mom lets you get chickens..you NEED to buy ALL the feed for them with your allowance. (because YOU want the chickens..she dosent..)
Thats how you become responsible for them..it will show her that you are really serious about taking care of them...

 

[The Chicken Lady]

All cleaned up...

 

[77horses]

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Thanks!

 

[redhen]

 

[77horses]

Anyway, (

) I emailed my mom with a bunch of information about the benefits of keeping our own chickens, since she is so against the cruelty of battery hens and "free-range" (just like I am!). Hopefully she will read the whole thing (it may take a while...I wrote A LOT!

) and then she will be more interested in getting some.

 

[Siler]

I know your mom will love the chickens once everyone settles in. After a week I was hooked. All those peeps in my laundry room that relied on me to care for them several times a day. I enjoyed watching them in the chicken tractor and running around the yard once they were big enough. They're the first thing I think about in the morning and I can recognize each of their sounds. They are precious creatures that give me a gift every day. A gift in the form of an egg and the gifts of watching them lives their lives happy and joyous. I know how cheesy that sounds but it's true.

 

[toejam]

I am doing the same thing to my dad... with geese though

 

[77horses]

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Good luck!

 

[77horses]

UPDATE: Not much improvement, BUT some of our relatives are thinking about getting chickens and they posted about it on FB and included a picture of a 4-H Raising Chickens book and my mom showed it to me. At least she cared enough to show me!

That's a little improvement, at least.

But she knows how much I love chickens, so was she showing it to me for me, or was she the one interested in it???

It seems more like she would show it to me just because I like chickens so much, but still, like I said, it's improvement.

Oh and yesterday she was outside building something that looked just like a chicken coop, and I really thought it was at first!

I asked her what it was...turns out it's a small shed for our trash bins and stuff.

Haha but it got me really excited. I asked her if it was easy to build, and she said yes, and I explained to her that it looked just like a chicken coop, except for you could add windows and nest boxes and stuff for a coop. I told her that it was that easy to make a chicken coop, too.

She also seems to like my single house-chick, Ivory, who lives in a brooder box in my room for now. She won't hold her or even touch her, but she will watch her from a distance and seems to find her antics kinda interesting. She also seems to observe how much I care for Ivory and she seems to see how much I love her, and maybe she will understand that you can love a chicken as much as you can love a dog, cat, or any other animal? Also, maybe if she spends more time with her, she will realize how much she enjoys her and will consider getting a small flock of chickens?


I also told her tonight that I think everyone should have their own backyard flock of chickens, so it would eliminate the battery hen problems.


Slow progress, but the more I talk about chickens and try to connect with her (and by also using Ivory), maybe she will see that owning chickens isn't a bad idea after all.

 

[77horses]

UPDATE:

One of our relatives has just gotten chickens! She has been wanting to for a while and finally posted on FB that she got some! And luckily for me, my mom and her talk quite often and I bet sooner or later they're gonna get on the topic of chickens. Maybe the relative who got chickens will talk a little bit about how much she is enjoying them so far, and then that will help a little? I told her she should ask her what she thinks of them so far.

Also, my step-father said that he has a surprise for Easter! He won't tell me what it is, but I can't help wondering if maybe my mom and him have discussed having chickens and maybe they are planning to get a few chicks as an Easter gift? Just a thought!