MUTINY!! My wife and son jump ship!!

[crawfordmama]

My first chicks lived in a brooder which I kept in my home office. I work from home, so this was the perfect set up. Every now and again they'd escape (ok, I let them out). Let's just say I've got some stained carpeting at this point. DH says next time the brooder will be in the garage.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Unless your DH is a tool junkie, then you'll be banned from there also, like I was.

 

[Rozzie]

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Do quail also produce dust? I want to file that info away for the future.

Most definitely. Loads of it!

I don't care, though. My car just lives with a layer of dust. It's nice when it rains when I'm at work. Cleans it off a bit, ROFL.

 

[Twiztedrods]

My wife and son bailed on me immediately and they are now all my chickens. I keep them in my "Man Cave" (spare bedroom with hard wood floors). It is my room to do with what I wish and right now I am using it to brood my chickens in a kiddie pool with side walls and covered with chicken wire to 24" tall. I haven't noticed any dust, and the smell is like an old barn which smells good to me. I just tell them, "Hey, at least I am not raising hogs in the house....."

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Twiztedrods, oh yes you are. That's what I call them, flying pigs, cause they are constantly eating something and wanting goodies.

I brood for 1 week in the extra bathroom in plastic tubs with shavings under the rubber mats. That is the real reason for those rubber mats, dust. You know the mats for lining shelves in the kitchen or lining tool boxes. It really helps keep the dust down. About 95% down. Put papertowels over them for the first few days and you have easy cleanup. I allow 1 roll of papertowels per hatch. I buy them by the case and have done it this way for years now. But I may experiment with a 1/4 wire bottom to the brooder tub with newspaper under that to change out each day. We'll see about that.

But even after a week, they start eating to much and start having stinky butts, so out to the brooder house for the chicken chicks and the quail brooder for the quail babies. No more stinkies in the house. By then I know everyone is healthy and is on regular water, not with the vitamins added. So off they go to a new adventure and life and they love it.

 

[PineappleMama]

DH wouldn't mind a few more, since his folks love the eggs... and he's okay with all the Someday Plans I've conjured up, but time will tell on that.

 

[Rozzie]

My son really likes the eggs. He also enjoys knowing we have cruelty-free eggs (though not organic).

However, he is very happy to proclaim them to be MY project, not his.

He'd take care of them if I was ill BUT on a normal day doesn't really have anything to do with them.

I have caught him sneaking in to watch them for a while, though, and even talking to one a time or two.

 

[Minniechickmama]

After having chicks in the garage and then in the basement (as icky and dark and dank as it is) to start, and having all the dust to clean up, I am turning my original chicken coop into the Chicken B&B (Brooder and Bantam) House. I do not intend to have even chicks in the house ever again, and in the garage only to doctor them, if needed. That dust is everywhere and my husband has drawn his line in it.
I think as long as I have a place to keep them and don't let things become too much of a mess, the hubby will be okay. The rabbits? That is another story.

 

[Jferlisi]

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LOL caught red handed.

 

[kitchwitch]

DH is okay with the whole situation. I think he'd rather I was involved in a different hobby, but he admits that he loves watching the chickens. We're getting ducks in spring and there wasn't even an argument. Turns out when I mentioned ducks, hubby's wheels started turning on how best to install a pond for them in the backyard. He's looking forward to watching the ducks swim out back!

He's an animal lover so he's caught between a rock and a hard place.