Husbands!.....LOL

[Henrietta23]

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We just read in the paper last week that TSC wants to build next to the Walmart that is 3 miles from us. DH like TSC for, well, tractor stuff, so he got very excited. Then I said, "oh how cool will that be if they decide to carry chicks and ducks in the spring. He stop being quite so excited.

 

[justduckie]

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Well, at our house the bike is STILL in the garage.....

.......but the chicks are in the house.

He did help me last year when I built the coop.....after I about killed myself because I couldn't quite reach as high as I needed to and didn't go get the ladder. And if I ask him too, he'll feed if I don't get home on time. And he hasn't asked me to get the new chicks out of the den.......hmmmmm........maybe he isn't so bad after all.

But next time I go to co-op, I'm going by myself.

 

[gritsar]

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We initially considered keeping them in the house, but this house is seriously lacking in spare space, our brooder set-up is pretty large and the only place that we could think of that would hold it was the foyer! Plus I had to take my SO's sleep schedule and Charlie girl into consideration. Believe me, they'll be much better off in the harley shed.

 

[conny63malies]

Boy am i lucky, our garage is big enough for the chickens future home, the harley and the car. But if i need a bigge brooder i hae to move to the basement. There is a 12x12ft area the chickie-boos can hang out.

 

[blb]

lol you guys are funny. I just told my husband we were getting chickens. He was shocked, said no.. blah blah blah. I told him it didn't matter what he thought, I'm getting chickens. He goes 'You promised no more animals." Which is very true, we have 3 big dogs, 2 cats, over 20 fish tanks and a snake. I told him I said "No more pets in the house. These won't be in the house, they will be in the backyard!" After a month of watching me do research and getting everything ready he was ok with it. (He says he just resigned himself to it) When I got our chicks from the po and our dogs ate them the same day he even said he would go with me to the farm store and get some more with me! I asked him later why he changed his mind on the chicks and he said he saw how excited I was about them then how upset I was when they died. Believe me, he got lots of good attention after that! (but I still got more chicks

Another thing he asked was don't we have to agree on this together? I'm like nope, this isn't a big purchase! ~ When we got married we promised to not make any big purcheses without consulting the other, lol.

He rarely looks at them. The brooder is in the basement now away from the dogs. Only asked when he getting his work bench back, lol. He said I'm spoiled. I'm like, yea! I am and what is wrong with being spoiled?? lol

btw~ we will have our 25th anniversary this year!

 

[Cetawin]

hahahahaha that is how I got my saddlebred (horse)... husband said "I thought you said no more pets/animals?" I came back with "I said no more INSIDE"

He still grumbled but when he got deployed to the middle east in 2001, he was so happy I had 'Doc', the wolf, the taco bell beast and the kids to keep me busy.

 

[UncleHoot]

Interesting... I AM the husband, and I have a hard time convincing my wife that we need more chickens.

But actually, she seems fairly interested in my new hobby of raising chickens, unlike just about every other hobby I've had.

So, is raising chickens normally a female endeavor?

Speaking of which, I just got 10 more layer chicks last night.

 

[MissChessy]

My husband and I have been married for 24 years and down through the years when driving around town, our town is very small, there would be flocks of chickens free ranging and I would always point out that I wanted some chickens. Well, after being married 23 years, we finally got a flock of 15 and have added another 15 to our older flock and keep talking about getting more chickens!! My kitchen and dining room wallpaper is chickens and I've got a chicken collection. I've noticed there is a lot of rooster items and hard to find chicken things!!

I got my husband pretty well figured out. He loves one hen named Miss Chestnut. She loves to hang around him in the shop. Just makes the most loving soft clucking noise and follows him everywhere. Such a sweetie for him.

 

[horsejody]

My husband won't admit it, but he loves the chickies too. Everyday he makes the the rounds of all the brooders and crows at everybody. Now that the brooders have moved to the coop and the garage I have seen him going out to check on them. He thinks I don't notice. Most of our chicks we hatched this year, but 4 were purchased at the feed store. I bought the 4 because one day when we were going to pick up a load of hay he said, "Hey, let's stop at TSC and Bomgaars to see if they have chicks." I was floored, but happily picked out some babies.

 

[Nugget]

The chickens were my idea, but my husband had a ball setting up X-10 computer controls for the coop lights, installing a chicken cam, and has become an enabler getting me a 3-egg R-com digital incubator for my birthday! A friend of mine has talked her husband into building a coop in their backyard so our incubator will fill their coop. The obscession spreads

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