help! DH doesn't want chix...

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Ahahaha! YA!
My husband complained and complained when I had an incubator full of eggs. I didnt have any other chickens yet. Then my stepdaughter unplugged the incubator and all my eggs died. I cried like a baby which scared him ALOT (the 5 kids were getting to me, in hindsight maybe he thought I was packing my bags). Next thing I know I have silkies he drove hours to get and hatching eggs coming in the mail. He hasn't complained at all since the meltdown.
 
Do what my DH did... I said "NO WAY, I hate birds, they stink and they make to dang much nosie!" He brought home a rooster and hen anyway. Did it while I was in school. Now, he has to keep building coops for MY birds. MY rooster (the first one he brought home), MY 3 silkies (soon to be 5) and MY phoenix's! Maybe one day he will have some of his own...
Oh, and MY little banty hen! She is just the cutest little girl ever. Sometimes when I am sitting out with the "kids" (usually all day Saturday and/or SUnday) he looks at me and says "For someone who hates birds............" LOL
 
Well the pros of them...

they eat bugs and will kill small rodents
they lay eggs
they can be eaten
they are tons of fun to watch
they provide valuable ferlizer for gardens and lawns
they are great pets

if that fails then tell him you want pets that give something back so your other plan is to begin breeding Thoroughbred Racing horses. And your first stallion is on hold for you to pick up and pay for for a cool $45,000.00....you will have to spend another year training him at a cost of around 60,000.00 including the boarding, vet and feed, then buy a good stock brood mare etc etc etc or he can cough up a few hundred for chickens. His choice.
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Have him read our site. Let him feel what it's like from other owners. He will read what other men feel like when they have chickens. This site has it all for him to learn about chickens and chicken lovers. I'm sure he will come around.
 
I guess I'm lucky my wife is cool w/ it. Actually want's them too. They'll probably become hers after she sees the chicks and I'll have to get some more of my own.

I just might get them sooner than I thought. My Navy contract ends next Monday, they screwed up my extension, and I only have 3 days to convert to a different rate.
 
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With much family counseling we went thru, this is a good suggestion, however, for me, I have my own income sometimes it goes both ways. Sometimes husbands like to domineering or overrulling their wives decisions and it can cause problems. As long you EARN your money by selling things or odd jobs, he can NOT threat you with divorce or something drastic to make you choose him or your birds. Its not a trade off here, its a deal killer. Its surely like either you choose your own family such as your parents OVER your husband and you must choose. No way! Surely he will come around and be acceptive when you find something he LIKES and compromise there, like his workshop or his hobby. As long you dont get your family's expenses wiped out by the chicken hobbyor his hobby, you will be ok. Nothing worse than putting your hobby up front and you need to feed your family first....thank God it never happened to me but seen what has done to others.

With my own things I sold on Ebay, thats my chicken fix and I would do whatever I will darn please and what it can provide my family with meat and eggs and the pleasure of seeing them doing their thing. However there is his workshop that I put my baby chicks in there and with all the dust and everything (after three years), we both were in agreement not to have any chicks in his workshop anymore and I will find a way to put them elsewhere by making a bigger coop with a nursery on the side. Or my dear friend will raise them for me which I would pay her out of my own money, not the family money.

My hubby was resistant at first and after while, he didnt mind it and brags to the people at his workplace that he got chickens in the city!
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to tell ya the truth I was the one that didnt want chickens. I hated them (I thought) and had a major fear of birds all together.
Now here we are almost a year into having them and I love them all, and am now hatching my own and planning on doubling our flock by next spring.


~Tiff~
 

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