help! DH doesn't want chix...

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SWOT. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
Get informed and properly address each one with him in a win/win style. All else fails, get his family to gang up on him over the holidays.
 
my husband said i could have six hens nooooo roosters. i came home with 12 laying hens, two adult roos, 25 two to three month old pullets, and 3 cockerals. been some giving away, swapping and selling. i told him i would get rid of some.... down 1 roo and two laying hens and 5 pullets. but then i traded 1 cockeral for a pullet (salmon faverolle roo and pullet now) and also took a lost and found off craigslist. he says he doesn't have any chickens and that they are all my responsibility. but every once in a while i catch him petting shirley and squiggy,(i traded lenny his brother) my faverolles. who could pass them up. i have brought every animal home that he has told me not to(i have to rescue everything that need a home), so i think he knew what he was in for. good luck
 
My DH didn't want chickens either, but then he picked up my McMurray catalog. His strong opposition turned to ok, just a couple and aren't these breeds cool. I got him a couple breed books to look through and some farm fresh eggs to taste. Long story short a year later I have my two orpington hens, he has 3 wyandotte hens, a cochin rooster, two Dutch bantam roosters and he has 24 Japanese bantams on order.
 
My fiance was the one that came up with the idea for eggs. Then we went together to get the hens. after chasing these darned birds around this free range farm, I was hooked. I CAUGHT those hens. They are MINE.
 
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I wasn't thinking something quite so harsh. I was going to say "Do it anyway! I would." But that is why I am not married
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Well I kept asking for them and my hubby said no too. Then on easter he gave me my first 5 baby chicks. Then he realized he had to build the coop. Since then I have gotten more and just ordered hatching egg, so he will be building another coop soon. My best idea would be ask for them for Christmas, hehehe. But no matter what don't tell him how many more you will get after he gets you the first ones.
 
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Wow, sounds like you got a broke hubby....send him our way and he'll be fixed before you know it!!! All he'll have to see is the setup we have and he'll be sooo appreciative of you that he'll do anything you ask!!! My hubby went along to the feed store, laughed and agreed that the chicks were cute, even let me buy 10 of them. Then, every time I went to get feed, I'd pick up one or two more. Finally I had 20, he didn't mind. Then I mentioned moving a 16x8 coop 35 miles with a 4x8 trailer and his f-150. Wow, sh-you-know-what hit the fan quick fast and in a hurry! He wasn't happy about that, he complained, he yelled, he screamed, and I stayed out of it and didn't even try helping (he hates my 'help', which actually equals me telling him how to do it). We got it moved in four trips, reassembled it, and all the sudden he didn't have a problem. The work was done! The chickens got bigger, started laying, and he had a favorite. I sprained my ankle really bad one day stepping out of the coop, and from that moment on HE became the official egg collector, feeder, waterer, etc. All I do is admire them. My ankle is better now, but he still does the work.

Like I said, ur hubby would be GRATEFUL after ONE week, tops!!! LOL!!!

To the OP: walk into the house, right in front of him. Leave the box of chicks outside (get an even number of them) and carry them in, two at a time, holding your hands under your shirt like you're hiding something. Tiptoeing is a great effect. Keep this up till all chicks are inside. Hopefully after the second or third trip he'll ask you what you're doing. He'll be so overcome by how cute you are that he won't be mad!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Even better, if one of the chicks chirps while you're carrying it, freeze and get that 'Oh, no, I've been caught!" look on your face, then walk real fast to the brooder. LOL!!!

Edit to add: We now have 50+ and hatching eggs on the way!!! LOL!!! AND, he BEGGED me to try hatching!
 
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yeah...do you have to have his permission? I undrrstand not wanting to upset him, though. My husband was hesitant initially, but after about a year of my daughter and I whining and talking all things chicken, he relented. He even decided he wanted some Polish chickens after we ordered a McMurray hatchery catalog in his name so it came to him in the mail. When we picked up the chicks at the post office, the first one we noticed was our little white crested black polish hen, and we named her Mike (after DH). I know it thrilled the heck out of him, and now he runs around "Mike laid an egg!" all proud of his hen
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) So funny, and sweet. Keep at him....show him around bYC!
 
I may be going against the general consensus here. Perhaps talk to your DH and find out what it is about having chickens that he dislikes. There are alot of myths about chickens and the eggs from backyard chickens, so maybe there's a reason in there why he doesn't want them.
If he's pre-conceived notions are unfounded, you can use information from this site to help educate him.
If after discussing the pros and cons he's still dead set against them then you have to decide which is more important to you - your marriage or some chickens.
I don't believe in going behind my SO's back to do or get anything. We have a partnership. It involves compromising. He has a right to have a say in what we do or do not have on this farm as much as I do; maybe more so since he is the sole breadwinner at this point.
He agreed to let me have a few chickens and then allowed more when he saw how much it would mean to me.
I will not be getting more chickens or any other mouth to feed without his consent. Yes, I could just bring some more chicks home and he'd get over it, but he shouldn't have to. This is his home too.
Just MHO.
 

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