You know, sometimes I just have to laugh or I'd cry I guess. I remember creating this big old coop with plenty of nesting boxes and roosts, my husband decided to leave it all open, no storage area above the rafters, of course the hens and rooster sleep on the rafters, so much for roosts, oh and the nesting boxes, pffft, my husband put shelf/bins over the hay feeder in the goats house and my hens drop more eggs over the goats hay in the bins than in the nesting boxes, in fact one of them just hatched out eggs there.
I think of this elaborate covered run I had my husband construct, only to have my husband let the hens out into the goat corral that's so not covered and then he brings it even further and shows the gals how to jump the fencing. So i say at least the ducks are still in the run, safe and snug,...Now of course he just opens the covered run up all day and let's the ducks and chicks have run of the yard. And the corral, goat proofed, they say if it can't hold water, it can't hold a goat,..and I look out back to see my goats following my husband around the yard while he is working and so not watching to see if they head off for the road,...but they usually follow him for a while then lounge on the grass hill, watching him with love sick eyes, ugh. We just got a buck and so far he ( my husband) is behaving,..I cringe at the idea of him(the buck) running loose.
So today I go out to see my week old chicks running around the corral with their mom. I say are you crazy,..they need more heat, it's too cold,..he said uh huh and promptly ignores me and the chicks spent the entire day following their mom around. Here I am paranoid the goats are going to step on them, they ducks will make lunch of them or the other hens will have a pecking contest, but sure enough I go out to close the goats in and there in the brooder is mom and 7 chix all snug and comfy for the night and my husband, grinning, says they are done for the day so I put them back in the brooder, happy now?
I guess he really does know better than me,..but I can't help but want to kick him
I think of this elaborate covered run I had my husband construct, only to have my husband let the hens out into the goat corral that's so not covered and then he brings it even further and shows the gals how to jump the fencing. So i say at least the ducks are still in the run, safe and snug,...Now of course he just opens the covered run up all day and let's the ducks and chicks have run of the yard. And the corral, goat proofed, they say if it can't hold water, it can't hold a goat,..and I look out back to see my goats following my husband around the yard while he is working and so not watching to see if they head off for the road,...but they usually follow him for a while then lounge on the grass hill, watching him with love sick eyes, ugh. We just got a buck and so far he ( my husband) is behaving,..I cringe at the idea of him(the buck) running loose.
So today I go out to see my week old chicks running around the corral with their mom. I say are you crazy,..they need more heat, it's too cold,..he said uh huh and promptly ignores me and the chicks spent the entire day following their mom around. Here I am paranoid the goats are going to step on them, they ducks will make lunch of them or the other hens will have a pecking contest, but sure enough I go out to close the goats in and there in the brooder is mom and 7 chix all snug and comfy for the night and my husband, grinning, says they are done for the day so I put them back in the brooder, happy now?
I guess he really does know better than me,..but I can't help but want to kick him
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You hold him down, I will whip him with a wet noodle. 
