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Yup. He's so odd. I can never tell what he's going to like. He didn't have a single animal when we met. Now we have 2 cornish rex cats, one standard poodle, one LG Chihuahua, 7 chickens, and the soon to be EMU eggs.
You need to learn the phrase, "DH, would you prefer X or Y?" (with X & Y both being acceptible choices) and substitute that phrase instead of the open-ended, "DH, what do you want?"
Just think, you could have said, "Do you prefer birds that lay brown eggs, or ones that lay white eggs?" Or "leghorns or barred rocks" or "white cochins or partridge cochins?"
That said, you will now have guard birds. You willl need to look up their incubation needs, though--pretty sure it is a lot drier than chickens, as well as a lot longer. BTW, my incubator was originally setup as an emu incubator; I've never hatched any, though, only chickens.
Well, when I said "Order whatever kind of eggs you want, and I'll run a test hatch" I didn't think it'd be EMU eggs. I thought he'd order something like leghorns. He's been going on and on about wanting leghorns....I only get bantams and weird things, so I figured it'd be LEGHORNS. NOT EMUS!
Normal people don't go from Leghorns to Emus....there's usually some kind of stop in between...