HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR THE HUBBY TO HATE THE HOBBY?

[mom'sfolly]

My poor dh had to take the girls out the other morning, and they wouldn't leave the coop for him. Didn't know him, didn't like him and was sure he ate chickens raw and unplucked. He however, is a remarkably good sport. He enjoys sitting out in the evening, watching them freerange, and laughing at their antics. He calls me chicken lady. I wonder how many other "chicken ladies" are out there?

karen

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Meg My hubby already hs three goats We had a fourth but it died. It was only two weeks old when we got him. Had to bottle feed it and it was adorable followed me everywhere then all of a sudden its stomach blew up like a ballon and it died. Our friend who we bought it from says that happens every once in awhile she wants us to try again but I'm not sure I want to I took care of him for three months then he was gone. I would rather get them already weaned its alot easier on the heart.

 

[jmantoo1]

just the oppasite with me my wife thinks big deal chickens . but they are my babies i check them 40 times a day

 

[SpottedCrow]

My hubby has hated my birds since the minute I brought Tom and Jerry into the house as chicks four years ago.
He didn't talk to me for a week...
When I spent $90 on a rabbit hutch, he didn't talk to me again.
So needless to say, it can be very quiet around here...LOL
But when the crappy neighbour's kid threatened Slifer, he went out and talked to the cops too and said that he threatened "OUR" birds...hmmm
And when DS and I went to my SIL's for a couple of days, he made sure the Slifer and Obelisk had food and water...

He even made me return a 99 cent mouse to the petshop...
somebody wanna remind me why I got married?

 

[Corey NC]

My dad was all for it until i got more and more...and more. We expanded the coop a couple months ago. Now I am working on him for another whole new one so I can start having batams. -hehe-

 

[arwmommy]

My husband is a tax accountant, so every Jan-April I am basicly a single mom to our two very active, and medically complicated children. By about March I am so bitter and resentful that it takes a while to calm down about tax season when it ends in April! I know it is his job and I knew what I was getting into, but it SUCKS for 4 mos! He is an amazing husband and father, and it is just part of our life that we have Tax Season.....

Well, this Tax Season was totally different! I was researching and putting in our big organic garden (we have had gardens before, but this is much bigger, including building huge raised boxes, etc), reading everything I could, gathering manure, straw and compost, etc.... and then the Chicken Thing started........ I have been so busy and happy about the garden and the soon to be delivered chickens, and preparing myself for them and doing all the research that I have not been a Bitter Tax Widow at all!

And who doesn't like a happy wife when they get home?????

I am always rescuing animals, and convincing him we *need* a ________(insert random animal here) and he is always WAY against it. So even though I don't think he would be real hip on the idea of chickens any other time, right now he is convinced that they are the greatest things in the world!

He just thinks it is very "sweet" and "domestic" and teases me that I am going "back to my roots" (my ancestors are from Tenessee, even though they came to California 2 generations ago!).

Gotta love those husbands!!

 

[PurpleChicken]

It's reversed here. My wife has been great. It goes like this:

"Honey, I want chickens." (I've wanted them for years)
"Chickens???? Huh"
"Yeah chickens. Our son will love them too"
At this point I enlisted our 6 year old son in the quest.
"Your gonna put them where?"
"In a cage in the kitchen and then I'll build a coop when they are ready."

So we go to a show and she sees some Silkie Bantams. "What are those?" "Chickens Hon" "I want one" "OK Sure". Now I've got her on the hook. She saw what Spotted Crow refered to as Fluffybutts. We leave the show with 4 standard layers and 3 silkies.

A week later my son and I bring home 2 California Whites we found at a local feed store. She was ok. "When will I get my kitchen back?"

It gets better. In my quest for the perfect flock I ordered a 25 chick combo. It came today. "Don't worry Honey. We'll keep the ones we like and give the others away to good homes." She buys it.

A pic of my kitchen: The main brooder and my Conyer cage. There's another small brooder not in the pic.

I've lost my mind and my wife seems ok with it. She's a keeper!!!

Don

34 Chickens
1 Conyer
2 Dogs
3 People

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[Chicken_Addict]

i think i have a pretty obedient hubby lmao hope he doesnt see this he he he


he built my coop poor guy, he lets me have whichever ones i want, but he is taking it a lil past chicken farming he bought my son a bunny i get to take care of lol he just kinda gets mad when i sneak to the feedstore and get chicks when he is at work but then he and his coworkers make fun of me and he gets over it

so to shorten this i am just waiting till he says " get rid of those da*n chickens!!!} lol

 

[Oaknim]

My husband is the chicken addict - he's the one who wanted 50 chicks this Spring! He absolutely loathes the dogs and our master escape artist goat who has put us in the poor house by destroying the fencing over and over and over...but he's chicken crazy. We've had 14 chicks in the bathroom for about 2 weeks and every day he says, "When are we moving them to the barn?" and yet, they're still in there...hmmm...

He's already planning on how to expand the coop for next year's batch of chicks. I told him he'd be the first person to die of chicken OD.

~ Oaknim

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

We both enjoy the benefits of our chickens and their company.