help! DH doesn't want chix...

[Jhawk]

Sure he will come around with a good fried chicken lunch!!

 

[JerseyHen]

I have wanted chickens for a long time. My DH sounds like many on here. I was going to get them last year, but we really had too much going on at the property to get it together in time (remodeling, property clearing, etc). So I told him I was getting them this spring. Did a lot of research, selected the friendlier more docile breeds and determined what we would need to take care of them. He rolled his eyes every time I would talk about it (which was often). One day, after out walking with the kid, he asks "what about a moveable chicken coop? The neighbor has an old trailer we could build it on". So he was at least thinking about it. The other day I was, again, talking about the coop and the design ideas I had, and he said "so I was thinking..." and then explained how he thought he would design it to have a storage shed for his outside tools (and chicken supplies)and the ride on mower and eventually construct a garage with work area (we have over an acre for this stuff). So, he may not be hot on the chicken idea, but it gave him a way to parlay it into a work area for himself. He still pulls a face if I in any way indicate that he might be involved with the chickens (like suggesting that he and our daughter might collect eggs together sometime). I am sure it is more about not wanting to add to his list of chores (he does all the dog chores). I don't intend for him to do any of it and I told him that if the chickens don't work out we will just have an extra storage unit... He is warming up to the idea a little and even walked the yard with me to determine where it should go. It doesn't hurt that he loves to eat chicken and egg dishes... lol. 25 little fuzzies arrive the first week of april. I bet that by summers end there is a chicken on his shoulder while he mows that grass... oh, and I remember to thank him every day for being so tolerant of his crazy chicken obsessed wife (and I know he appreciates it because it makes him blush a little). He is a really tolerant hubby and is generally super supportive.

 

[Wild Trapper]

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You are the boss in your home - assert your position with the rule of the cast iron skillet.

Wear him down, pick his hobby and tell him it is either chickens or you start selling his stuff on ebay. Don't just threaten, do it. My DW actually did sell some of my chickens on me. She was going to sell 'em all, but relented and did allow me to keep what I had left. Or maybe she got tired of the sound of me whining

and crying around.

I love threads like this. My personal motto is, and I'm sure you've heard it before, "It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission!"

My chickens are in one of those yard storage sheds I put some windows in, along with some nest boxes and roosts. I cut a door to a fenced in yard. Great thing about it all, once I had the chicks, my DW

was right out there helping. She still doesn't go in the coop with them.

Good luck and

from Ohio