Excuses for Hubby......

[spowell]

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Too funny

I love it!

 

[spowell]

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I hadn't thought of that....

 

[DebbieF]

You're hatching them for someone, now they can't take them, what else could you do????

 

[cmom]

I love all of the excuses posted. We have a small farm. DH and I had been talking about getting some chicks as I wanted 6 to start out with. I didn't give up and would mention it often. The first 6 chicks we got my husband brought home in a small box. I said what do you want me to do with them they can't stay in this small box, so I went to our local feed store and bought a brooder cage with a feeder, feed and waterer. I used a shop lamp we had and put a 150 watt bulb in it and put it on top of the cage. When the chicks were 4 months old he built a coop. The following week we got out first egg. When the hens were a year old I went out and bought a dozen more chicks without telling DH. I told him I wanted to go into the egg business and he laughed at me and said lots of luck. I put out a sign out at the end of our road and every once in awhile someone would come up to buy some eggs. When my dozen chicks turned a yr old this time I got 25 more chicks. I told DH that I needed more eggs for our customers. Slowly I added more and more birds until I had a little over a hundred birds and three more coops. I did tell hubby that I was splitting an order with a friend. Now DH is into the birds as he admitted he didn't think I would sell an egg one and now I can barely keep up with my customers. Now I'm hatching. I went out and bought an LG incubator for my first incubator as I really wasn't sure if I wanted to hatch chicks. This eventually led to a couple more styrofoam (Hova-Bator) incubators and I also bought two GQF Sportsman cabinet incubators. I did eventually sell one of the sportsman's and now I incubate in the cabinet incubator and hatch in the styrofoams. I guess I felt I really didn't need an excuse. I wanted chickens so I got them. At the time I was working (now I'm retired) and I have always taken good care of the birds. Every now and then I catch DH peering into the incubator and hatchers and he comes out to my hatchery room and checks out the chicks. Also he takes bread cut up into pieces and gives bread almost every evening to the birds. He wanted Pheasants so I got some Pheasant eggs and hatched them out too. He even gives the Pheasants bread too. He has a special call and everyone comes running for some bread. Now I sell chicks too. I kind of made it a hobby and a business. It will take me years to break even if I live that long but I enjoy it. Good luck and have fun!!!

 

[Marcymom3]

Hubs has put me on notice that I am not to even think about adding to my flock. (Since my flock is only eight, maybe he won't notice if a rooster just happens to appear in my yard/run/coop and then we will let nature take it's course).

About those eggs, your tender heart and enthusiasm for life is probably why he fell in love with you. You must remind him!

My money goes on you convincing him that you are just trying to make him proud of you.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

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Darling Husband, or Dear Husband.

 

[CarolJ]

How about, "I want these chicks."

Be up front and just say what you want. You're an adult and don't need "permission" to have what you want - as long as you can afford it and it's not going to negatively impact someone in the family. Just my 2 cents worth.

 

[terrilhb]

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[kfchickenlady]

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just wondering if youre married? If so, has this worked for you? Im curious

 

[bzbrown]

I'm so happy my husband encourages me to do whatever it is I want to do. LOL I don't buy jewelery or fancy clothes, and I really want a nail gun for Christmas so I guess he's content. However, I love the excuse: "What eggs?" and "The mother chicken abandoned the eggs and they would have died if you hadn't intervened." LOL those made me giggle.