Excuses for Hubby......

[spowell]

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Ok....this is all in good fun. I wouldn't trade my DH in for one moment.

 

[spowell]

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I like this one!

Unfortunately, when I received my last order of eggs... I was in the shower, so my OH (other half) had to drive me to the post office to pick them up.
"What's that you've ordered?" *suspicious tone of voice*
"Nothing." *innocent look*
Later that day I told him I'd ordered 6 araucana eggs... in fact I had 24 incubating (12 araucanas and 12 silkies). I accidentally let slip about 7 silkie eggs deveopping.
"I thought you said they were araucanas?"
"Errrrrrrrrr...." *runs and hides under the duvet*

By the time he caught up with me I had my argument all ready.
"Have I ever complained about the number of chilli plants you've got? (he likes to grow chillis) You even asked me to water them for you. When have I ever asked you to do ANYTHING with the chickens? Eh? I don't complain about the number of chillis you're producing, so don't complain about my chicks!" *blow raspberry here*

It actually worked! He was laughing so hard, he couldn't think of a retort. 1-0 to Dani

OMG....that is too funny. I am still giggling after reading it twice!!!

 

[silkymom1986]

I guess I'm lucky, my hubby loves it when I get more eggs or chicks, I really enjoyed reading this thread though, gave me a good laugh this morning!

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

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I like this one!

Unfortunately, when I received my last order of eggs... I was in the shower, so my OH (other half) had to drive me to the post office to pick them up.
"What's that you've ordered?" *suspicious tone of voice*
"Nothing." *innocent look*
Later that day I told him I'd ordered 6 araucana eggs... in fact I had 24 incubating (12 araucanas and 12 silkies).
A week later, I accidentally let slip about 7 silkie eggs deveopping.
"I thought you said they were araucanas?"
"Errrrrrrrrr...." *runs and hides under the duvet*

By the time he caught up with me I had my argument all ready.
"Have I ever complained about the number of chilli plants you've got? (he likes to grow chillis) You even asked me to water them for you. When have I ever asked you to do ANYTHING with the chickens? Eh? I don't complain about the number of chillis you're producing, so don't complain about my chicks!" *blow raspberry here*

It actually worked! He was laughing so hard, he couldn't think of a retort. 1-0 to Dani

 

[cmom]

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Now my DH is asking me when I'm putting more eggs into the incubator. Originally I bought my chicks from a hatchery but now I hatch them myself. Oh what fun!!!

 

[kvmommy]

After 2 failed batches in the spring I swore I wasn't hatching anymore. Then my husband deployed for 2 months and the itch started. He came back and I was thrilled and decided not to. Then they sent him away a week after he got back for 2 weeks. I said to myself.."self...You're the one stuck home wtih 2 kids, no help and bored...you should buy eggs". I bought them and then he came home a week early. While I was in the shower the mailman came. My husband walks in with a box and said..."so when were you gonna tell me you decided to try to make me want to cry?" I was like what? Then I saw the box. LOL...but then when I do things like call him to come see the embryo move, he can't help but get excited. Last night he told me that if the chicks didn't produce so much dust and poop they'd be the perfect pets. I think i'm slowly wearing him down!! Plus these are silkies...how can you not love a silkie? I had to get rid of my last chickens becuase they started flying to the rafters of the pool shed and pooping on the pool equipment instead of staying in their area. Silkies can't fly! Yay! lol

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

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Tell your husband "thank you" from my family for his service.

And you can't NOT love a silkie! My eggs are supposed to be here today!

 

[CarolJ]

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Yes, I'm married - and happily. It has worked great for me. But it hasn't always been this way. I've tried the more devious paths of getting my way. I just learned that it takes a lot of effort to make up stories and try to fool my husband - and in the end those little deceptions lead to mistrust. Life is much better when I just say what I want. If I've agreed not to do something, then that's a different matter. But if I want more chickens, I just say so. All he can do is say, "I would rather you didn't." But as long as I'm the one taking care of them and cleaning up after them - and, as I wrote before, if we can afford them and they don't negatively affect others in the family, why not? We are a team - I support him in his hobbies and fun activities, and he supports me in mine.

Of course, I'm in my sixties, and it took us a long time to reach this point in our relationship.

I got the sense that the OP was half joking/half serious. When my first set of chicks hatched last month, my one blue barred rock chick died. I had a BYC friend who had just hatched some - so she gave me three of her chicks (chicken math - 3 chicks to replace 1 chick that died!

). The three new chicks were a few days older than mine and were a little bigger. I waited a couple days to see if my husband would notice the new chicks. The brooder was in the kitchen - so they were hard to miss. He didn't notice, though - and when I told him about them, we had a laugh about it. We have lots of fun, too.

 

[ramirezframing]

Mine will say no but than it normally takes him a week or so if ever before he "notices" the new chickens. For him putting up with me and assorted birds, he gets his own birds (even if they are butts, or a turkey

) and I take care of them. lol But he did "notice" one new one right away (the lakenvelder roo) and I tried to tell him that it had been here, he just shook his head and went to play with his tools. I think he'll really say no when it comes time for a new coop that aint for "his" babies.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

What peeping? You are going crazy! I don't hear peeping.

Usually followed with, those darn hens are at it again and laid in the bator!