Hoping For Chicks

[Lilelfengurl]

I'm Hoping for chicks...




I have mom partly onboard. Now for the tuff one. Dad. He would say:
"Chickens are food, not pets."
"They will poop on my tractor"
"NO!"


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Any advice for how to get a yes out of him?
He will still want them for poultry. Can anyone relate and say how they get around it?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Maybe let them be poultry and feed him breakfast daily. Everyone in the family will eventually look at them as pets to some degree.
Mine don't get on the tractor.

 

[redsoxs]

Tell him what a good lesson in responsibility it is and how you will do all the work. Provide the family with eggs! Mine don't poop on anything but the ground.

 

[Lilelfengurl]

Thanks guys! I'll tell him. I'm going to bring it on slowly though because he won't say yes if I just say, "Hey dad! I want chickens!"

Oh well. I'm going to make him eggs and ask him how good fresh eggs would be as his morning breakfast... I hope it works!!!!

If I do get chickens, I need to be able to now everything I can about the caring and raising of chicks and chickens.

 

[sourland]

Let them be both food and pets. Get some bantams/layers and some meat birds - just don't name the meat birds.

 

[Lilelfengurl]

Let them be both food and pets. Get some bantams/layers and some meat birds - just don't name the meat birds.

Ok thanks! I'm an animal lover so I'm trying to find ways for this not to be hard for me.

 

[liz9910]

 

[DDNONIN2016]

Good luck talking to your Dad. Fingers crossed for you

 

[weimarmama]

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