How to get husband in gear to build coop

[yadaguhtoo]

Thank you AuntGoose! I was a little worried about using regular chicken wire but I lock them in at night and my dogs don't let alot of predators go unoticed so I think it is fine. Plus I have my guard cat "Chinook"

 

[TruGritCkn]

My Darling Honey says he wants me to be able to do things myself so I know how just in case he is not there to do it himself. I have learned a lot from him because of this. I actually had a coop raising and a lot of people have helped me create the coop I have. I want to name the girls after all the people who helped but then they would have names such as George, Gerry. Dave, Tim, etc... One chicken would be Dixie. I look at my coop and know it is something special because of the special people that helped build it. Mr. DH was the one always cooking for the crew so he is part of it all. He loves to cook.

 

[duckinnut]

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Tell him you were at the store and saw a truck with an advertisement saying that they specialize in sheds and coops. That this young handsome polite guy was the owner and is going to come by and give a price. Nothing more motivated than a rooster threatened. I know I would be.

 

[ThinkingChickens]

Um, saying this in the most demure way possible... you know how to get your husband excited about ANY project. Okay, blushing now! LOL

 

[AZBootsie]

Dunnno Around here I am the coop builder. Chickens and building are not my husband's thing.

Buy the chicks and brood them in the house. That would motivate him. Chicks outgrowing the brooder always puts the pressure on me to hurry.

 

[WalkingHorse]

 

[Ole rooster]

Dixie......that was a funny story. And for the record, my wife is a school teacher. The only work she does with tools is a nail in the wall for a picture. And then look out. The one thing I let her do on her own is the flowers and bushes. If she needs a hole or some area tilled, I get out the TroyBuilt till or the tractor. I have put the post hole digger on the tractor to get her a wide deep hole for something she's planting. Just as soon as this coop and run thing is done I'm starting on her 8X10 garden shed/potting shed with a leantoo shed of stray a such. So yeah, I love the things she has planned. Keeps me young, pretty, built like a he man and ready to go.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

My method depends on how fast I want it done.

Right away? I tell DS, DFS and DD - my 3 oldest - that they have X amount of money to build Y. Any left over, they get to keep.

Don't mind if it takes a few weeks/months? I ask DH. He says ok, whenever, so on. So he may start the project, good. If he doesn't, I leave it be, I don't nag. Let it go for a week, then go start playing with the power tools. He gets twitchy, then runs in to stop me and builds what I wanted in the first place.

Then again, I get twitchy if he starts up in the kitchen. So fair is fair.

 

[TDog77]

I say you get him a tool that he has been really wanting that he just has to try out on the coop....Think, Festool track saw, new air tools of any kind of flavor or a new brushless 12 volt milwaukee impact driver and drill.

Um, saying this in the most demure way possible... you know how to get your husband excited about ANY project. Okay, blushing now! LOL

Cannot argue with the above one either. Been known to work on me more then once.