Does anybody get FLACK from Family and Friends for having Chickens?

[jeang]

i know how you feel i havnt got my chickens yet but my 2 sons think i are going mad but time will tell lol

 

[priszilla]

my Dad is constantly telling me to get rid of mine-I am nearly 42 years old!I have made my own decisioins for a little while now-lol

 

[d.k]

*HAH! I'm 48 & my dad wiggs out that I wander around outside the bathroom putting in laundry & stuff while I'm still brushing my teeth!

 

[d.k]

*I think I love you, seminolewind!

 

[greysandy]

I started out as the crazy greyhound lady and now I will be the crazy greyhound and chicken lady. My husband is beside himself that I talked to his mother about it and now she is considering taking a few of the hens I ordered (shipment of chicks due March 3rd).

Amazingly enough, all my other greyhound friends think it is a good idea (people who cook for their dogs, grind raw meat and bones for their dogs, let their dogs sleep in bed with them), but all of my husband's teacher friends listen to him whine about it and think it is a crazy idea. Oh well, I have to give him something to talk about with his friends at work.

 

[chickenannie]

I am so happy to read through this thread for the first time.

My family makes fun of my chickens and turkeys and I just feel hurt! I need to develop that thick skin several of you have mentioned.

The worst was when my dad *appeared* helpful when he helped me build a window into my henhouse, but then at each family gathering (for the past 2 years) he decides to tell a mocking story about me raising chickens. I wonder if it's because his relatives are all 'conventional' older farmers and this strange idea of "free-ranging organic chickens" is something to be put down by them. It challenges their adherence to the caged, awful inhumane conditions some of them have raised their chickens in for so many years. I wish they'd "remember back" to the time before they learned so much cruelty toward animals when everyone had free-range organic chickens.

My city friends love my chickens -- it's the uber-class-conscious suburbanites who think chickens are 'yucky' and prefer to buy their eggs at the store in lily-white chemically-dipped cartons.

Sorry my post wasn't *funnier*. I love the chicken allergy force field!

 

[seismic wonder2]

When I told my wife I was getting chickens she thought I was 100% out of my mind.

It's been almost a year now and she can't imagine life without the muppet show in the back yard!

My friends are still on the fence, but for reasons other than my silkies...lol

 

[seminolewind]

d.k :

*I think I love you, seminolewind!

Thanks!!! Ain't it the truth?????????​

 

[DrakeMaiden]

There are people who just don't like that SOME people don't or won't conform to what they see as "normal."

My opinion is that if you show them that you don't care, then it won't be as funny to them. I say post one of those bumperstickers "My pet feeds me breakfast" (did I quote it right?) at your work station or wherever it is obvious and let them know you are NOT ashamed to be yourself. I would even take it one step farther and decorate my desk with kitchy chicken items.

Conformity means the death of everything beautiful in this life, imo. The joke is on them.

 

[tazcat70]

Yup! I seem to be the family joke! Chickens in the backyard, going to school for an agriculture degree. I am at a point in my life that I just don't care. Luckily for me it has happened earlier in life rather than later, and my children get the benefit of having the chickens. My son, who is 10, teases me that I am the chickenlady, it's true, I am the chickenlady.