how to drop a hint without being obnoxiousUPDATE

[miss_jayne]

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hey...there is always Christmas!!!

those are incredible...anyone have those???
oh, i'll only be 37 once. i am waiting for that senior discount. ageism! i just want my 10% off dog gone it!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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hey...there is always Christmas!!!

those are incredible...anyone have those???
oh, i'll only be 37 once. i am waiting for that senior discount. ageism! i just want my 10% off dog gone it!

I have number 3. There is something wrong with it. Every time I put eggs in it I end
up with too many birds.

Happy Birthday ya old f*rt!!!

 

[miss_jayne]

ha! you are nuts. no, seriously, nuts!

what is your hatch rate with that, the mother of all table top units?

 

[PurpleChicken]

Guilty as charged and I'm 37 too, at least for a few more weeks. 37 is a great
age. You're young enough to do what you want yet old enough to appreciate it.


Hatch rate is more a function of egg quaility and experience then the bator but
the bator does come in a close 3rd. I've had 100% hatches and 30% hatches.
I'm on day 15 with some of my own silkie eggs. I'll let ya know.

 

[miss_jayne]

thanks! i was thinking of some silkies, as my middle child thinks they are fabulous.

keep me posted old dude!

 

[bluey]

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See? I told ya!!! You get what you want and he gets what all men want (...not having to read a woman's mind). Mind reading is NOT standard equipment on the male species!

Congratulations and happy birthday and happy hatching!!!!

 

[newchickenfamily]

OK, miss_jayne, your post really opened up a can of worms here at my house!

After reading your post, I thought, "hey, what the heck, why not ask DH for a bator'"? (birthday is coming very soon) I'm only turning 34 once, so why not. So, I go for the direct approach (as I mentioned in my first reply to you). I tell him I would like a Hova Bator. He says "I don't like the sound of anything that has bator in it".

Then he must have been mulling it over for awhile cause he then asks, "what will you put in it"? (Duh, I think to myself) "Eggs, what else"? He then says "what would you do with the chicks"? Me: "Oh, I can sell them on CL, to my other chicken friends, etc..." Never mind keeping some too!

Now I really think I'm getting somewhere!! He didn't flat out say no, so you all cross your fingers that I will get a Bator for my 34th birthday on 9/26.

Thank you miss_jayne for getting the ball (er, egg) rolling.

 

[ChickaD]

That's so cool that you tried a new approach and it got results - everybody's happy! Now we can say, "What's hatchin' at your place?"

Oh, and have a terrific BD too!

 

[bluey]

I do believe we've started some sort of movement...

 

[miss_jayne]

Then he must have been mulling it over for awhile cause he then asks, "what will you put in it"? (Duh, I think to myself) "Eggs, what else"? He then says "what would you do with the chicks"? Me: "Oh, I can sell them on CL, to my other chicken friends, etc..." Never mind keeping some too!

i asked Rick, (that's my Chicken Man...the ORIGINAL, thank you; Purple Chicken will try to say he is, but that's just a flat out lie and it's basically propeganda) 'Honey, what should i try first! i am so excited!'

Rick says, 'DINOSAURS!'
me, 'no! platypus!'

Now I really think I'm getting somewhere!! He didn't flat out say no, so you all cross your fingers that I will get a Bator for my 34th birthday on 9/26.

Thank you miss_jayne for getting the ball (er, egg) rolling. fl

i'm thinking we need to do a party for us. we'll have baked chicken in the chicken brick and try our bators out!

See? I told ya!!! You get what you want and he gets what all men want (...not having to read a woman's mind). Mind reading is NOT standard equipment on the male species!

Congratulations and happy birthday and happy hatching!!!! clap

thanks, and you are right! that is what gets a lot of relationships in trouble. NO, men and woman are NOT equal, they are NOT the same. we are made different and both capable, but bluey, you are good and wise!

I do believe we've started some sort of movement... lau

yeah, the women's Libabator movement! march on hatching sisters! the world deserves more chicks with chicks!

thanks, ChickaD! you keep us giggling, and i'll see what i can do about making some chickens!