My DH doesn't like my chickens AT ALL... I wanted some last spring and he FREAKED, he thought I wouldn't take care of them (?????) and argued I had enough obligations in the house, blah blah blah (our youngest wasn't walking, yet) and he really wanted me to wait a year, so I respected his fears and waited. Why, oh why did I marry a city boy?
This spring I was getting chickens come hell or high water. He still didn't like the idea, but overall decided he "loved me more than he hated chickens." His conditions were:
1. He was not going to help me. No help building the coop or finacing the operation. (So I have the ugliest coop on BYC and I'm a SAHM, so I finaced my chickens by selling stuff on
ebay)
2. He didn't want chickens roaming around, they might actually come near him. I agreed not to free-range the birds.
3. He didn't want to smell them or their coop. He agreed not to go within 20 yrds of the coop and they don't smell. I found some great tips on keeping a coop fresh on here.
4. He HATES eggs - he has some sort of pathologic phobia about eggs, so I can't lure him that way.
5. He wouldn't mind eating the birds, but he won't have anything to do with the processing.
He's rather upset at how many I have, but I've kept all my promises and he even watched them when I went on a week-long all-expense-paid vacation with our kids. He doesn't mind the roosters either. He is worried I'll start hatching chicks left and right, though.
Once my girls starting laying well, I started giving eggs out to all the neighbors. The very next day, one of the neighbors brought us the most delicious (still warm) homemade pound cake and he said, "I like your chickens better right now than I ever have."
I hope your DH relents. Maybe if you can get him to share specific concerns you can work on overcoming them. Feel free to PM me anytime. I feel your pain...
