Ok, I need to get this off my chest. I don't know where this problem will end up. We're suppose to talk more about this over the weekend. All he doe's is this
and it's starting to get over welming.
I've raised chickens for most of my life up until about six years ago when I had move back to my home state of Montana. That's when I met my husband. I love him dearly, but he's driving me crazy with the chickens. He agreed chickens would be a good thing, and he wants to build a coop and get the eggs and meat. What I've always wanted to do is raise and show Brahma bamtams to standard. I took this opportunity to make it happen, since we would get both eggs and meat from them (in high quantity, but not overwelming) too, plus I would be fulfilling my life long dream. He agreed this would be ok.
Now he's suddenly panicking and he's decidided that we should build a very small coop for the first year and only get a few laying and meat birds to try this out! Not that that is a bad thing overall, I do understand that he's a causous person, but... I don't know how many times I have to explain to him that I know how much time and effort is involved with caring for chickens (I've done this nearly my whole life with alteast a hundred or more at a time). I'm fully preparded for it and he won't have to be involved. He also doesn't understand that I'm not planning on having a giant chicken breeding operation that will consum our lives! All I want is a smaller operation that will give us the meat and eggs we will need to be happy as well as let me breed and show, my birds. Now he's even insisted (after agreeing that the coop could be in place I chose that's fairly close to the house) that the coop should be put on the north end of our property.
The negatives to this is, there are many more predators that move through there, my monther in law lives right by there, and she thinks everything I do with my animals is both wrong and mean in some wildly made up way and she's never even had anything more than a few dogs and cats, plus I'll have to carry large buckets of water far to long just reach my coop. Our hoses will only work very well for this in the summer when it's nice, but in the winter I really don't want to have to carry buckets of water to my birds through a white out ice/snow blizzard that far away from the house (about a hundred yards and I don't have a strong body)!
We can't run pluming over there be cause it's on the other side of a grove of trees that's around a hundred years old and we don't want to kill them (they have a shallow root sytem due to hight ground water).
Ok, I think I've said most of it, if I didn't cover all of it. Thanks for listening.
Sorry for the flaming attitude, but I needed to vent this and I hope some one will have a solution to help me to help him understand why I planned things the way I did. Or atleast help me to understand him better?
I've raised chickens for most of my life up until about six years ago when I had move back to my home state of Montana. That's when I met my husband. I love him dearly, but he's driving me crazy with the chickens. He agreed chickens would be a good thing, and he wants to build a coop and get the eggs and meat. What I've always wanted to do is raise and show Brahma bamtams to standard. I took this opportunity to make it happen, since we would get both eggs and meat from them (in high quantity, but not overwelming) too, plus I would be fulfilling my life long dream. He agreed this would be ok.
Now he's suddenly panicking and he's decidided that we should build a very small coop for the first year and only get a few laying and meat birds to try this out! Not that that is a bad thing overall, I do understand that he's a causous person, but... I don't know how many times I have to explain to him that I know how much time and effort is involved with caring for chickens (I've done this nearly my whole life with alteast a hundred or more at a time). I'm fully preparded for it and he won't have to be involved. He also doesn't understand that I'm not planning on having a giant chicken breeding operation that will consum our lives! All I want is a smaller operation that will give us the meat and eggs we will need to be happy as well as let me breed and show, my birds. Now he's even insisted (after agreeing that the coop could be in place I chose that's fairly close to the house) that the coop should be put on the north end of our property.
Ok, I think I've said most of it, if I didn't cover all of it. Thanks for listening.
