Don't tell the wife, I'm growing fodder in the 2nd bathroom!

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@gtaus I can't help thinking that you've fallen prey to a very bad case of cultural norms and gender orientated brain washing. Of course you're getting rounds of applause and encouragement for suggestions on how to resolve this problem. What may have escaped your notice is the enthusiastic responses to your attempts to mollify your wife are in general coming from other females. Not only are you unlikely to find a working resolution to the problem, you're demonstrating a line of excuse tactics used by males to a whole bunch of other females and thus not only weakening your hand, but making life difficult for the husbands of the thread contributors by alerting their wives to male strategy.
You say you've been married for some 30+ years. I suggest you adopt the same strategy often sited on this forum regarding unproductive hens; don't keep them. No lay eggs, no get fed. This is assuming you've squeezed all the productivity you want out of your wife in the last 30 years.
The obvious solution hasn't been posted. Not hard to see why not given the contributors.
That solution is; lose the wife. In the event that you find you are having difficulty coping then you can always move in another female; just don't sign any paperwork!
There is absolutely no point in keeping an uncooperative and belligerent wife when there are so many good ones out there.

Ah, so re-home her. Glad you didn't say to the chopping block and have her for Sunday dinner!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

@gtaus I can't help thinking that you've fallen prey to a very bad case of cultural norms and gender orientated brain washing. Of course you're getting rounds of applause and encouragement for suggestions on how to resolve this problem. What may have escaped your notice is the enthusiastic responses to your attempts to mollify your wife are in general coming from other females. Not only are you unlikely to find a working resolution to the problem, you're demonstrating a line of excuse tactics used by males to a whole bunch of other females and thus not only weakening your hand, but making life difficult for the husbands of the thread contributors by alerting their wives to male strategy.
You say you've been married for some 30+ years. I suggest you adopt the same strategy often sited on this forum regarding unproductive hens; don't keep them. No lay eggs, no get fed. This is assuming you've squeezed all the productivity you want out of your wife in the last 30 years.
The obvious solution hasn't been posted. Not hard to see why not given the contributors.
That solution is; lose the wife. In the event that you find you are having difficulty coping then you can always move in another female; just don't sign any paperwork!
There is absolutely no point in keeping an uncooperative and belligerent wife when there are so many good ones out there.

 

[Major_in_MS]

That solution is; lose the wife.

I too have been married for close to 30 years (next June) to the same woman. I'm gonna have to disagree with your suggestion based on info and advise that I received from a great many firefighters that I worked with during my time as a professional firefighter. At the fire station you spend 1/3 of your life living with these men and they become your second family and as such you get all the details and tales of woe relating to their own marital issues and problems and then how much worse things get after divorce. This has taught me to maintain peace and tranquility in my home life.

To sum up all this advice... It's cheaper, to keep her.

 

[MROO]

@gtaus I can't help thinking that you've fallen prey to a very bad case of cultural norms and gender orientated brain washing. Of course you're getting rounds of applause and encouragement for suggestions on how to resolve this problem. What may have escaped your notice is the enthusiastic responses to your attempts to mollify your wife are in general coming from other females. Not only are you unlikely to find a working resolution to the problem, you're demonstrating a line of excuse tactics used by males to a whole bunch of other females and thus not only weakening your hand, but making life difficult for the husbands of the thread contributors by alerting their wives to male strategy.
You say you've been married for some 30+ years. I suggest you adopt the same strategy often sited on this forum regarding unproductive hens; don't keep them. No lay eggs, no get fed. This is assuming you've squeezed all the productivity you want out of your wife in the last 30 years.
The obvious solution hasn't been posted. Not hard to see why not given the contributors.
That solution is; lose the wife. In the event that you find you are having difficulty coping then you can always move in another female; just don't sign any paperwork!
There is absolutely no point in keeping an uncooperative and belligerent wife when there are so many good ones out there.

Careful, Shad, your true colors are showing! "Keep the Rooster, Lose the Wife."
Watch out, ladies ... they're ON to us! ... "Off with his head!"

 

[Shadrach]

I too have been married for close to 30 years (next June) to the same woman. I'm gonna have to disagree with your suggestion based on info and advise that I received from a great many firefighters that I worked with during my time as a professional firefighter. At the fire station you spend 1/3 of your life living with these men and they become your second family and as such you get all the details and tales of woe relating to their own marital issues and problems and then how much worse things get after divorce. This has taught me to maintain peace and tranquility in my home life.

To sum up all this advice... It's cheaper, to keep her.

You get less time than that for murder these days.

Careful, Shad, your true colors are showing! "Keep the Rooster, Lose the Wife."
Watch out, ladies ... they're ON to us! ... "Off with his head!"

My colours are flown under my name much like a pirates flag.

 

[21hens-incharge]

To sum up all this advice... It's cheaper, to keep her.

Ahhhh...so that's why hubs puts up with me.
All this time I thought it was cause he doesn't like to cook.

 

[gtaus]

That solution is; lose the wife. … There is absolutely no point in keeping an uncooperative and belligerent wife when there are so many good ones out there.

That's a path I had not considered! Although I am sure that there are many good women out there that would make a great wife, I am not convinced that I would be their choice.

You say you've been married for some 30+ years. I suggest you adopt the same strategy often sited on this forum regarding unproductive hens; don't keep them. No lay eggs, no get fed. This is assuming you've squeezed all the productivity you want out of your wife in the last 30 years.

Yikes! Pretty tough words on a chicken forum where most roosters are considered unnecessary and culled long before they hit maturity. Other than strutting around and crowing every once in awhile, I wonder if my wife thinks I have any other productivity left in me?

Thanks for your thoughts, but I have considered your suggestion and have decided not to follow it. Dear wife is still special to me after all these years, and I would say even more so at 31 years together.

 

[gtaus]

Ahhhh...so that's why hubs puts up with me.
All this time I thought it was cause he doesn't like to cook.

What? Your husband does not cook for you?

I'm feeling less and less like a real rooster on this thread. Could it be I have been hen pecked so long I don't remember what it was like to be in charge of the chicken run?

 

[21hens-incharge]

What? Your husband does not cook for you?

I'm feeling less and less like a real rooster on this thread. Could it be I have been hen pecked so long I don't remember what it was like to be in charge of the chicken run?

Nor does he clean, do laundry or pick up critter poo.
Maybe it is cause I am not working.

I am bottom bird here.

 

[gtaus]

and tales of woe relating to their own marital issues and problems and then how much worse things get after divorce. This has taught me to maintain peace and tranquility in my home life.

+1. But you don't have to be a firefighter to have learned this lesson. Yeah, I may screw up and get put back in place every once in awhile, but better that than having to spend my life with only myself. Just saying....