My husband is always meddling.......

[citychickx6]

Maybe when you are going to do some tending say
" Honey can you carry that water jug for me so I don't have to make 2 trips?"
Then while you are both tending you can talk about the chickens.
He may even find that he likes heading out there with you.

 

[canesisters]

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X2 That is exactly what I was going to suggest.
My hubby had zero experience around horses and had no intrest in them - until one of them got hurt and I needed him to come hold her lead while I changed her bandages. By the time she was better, he had seen that they are much more than eye candy in the pastures. When the mule died - as much as I LOVED that mule, he was as tore up as I was if not more. If you can find ways to 'engage' him in their care, he might begin to look for reasons to get out there. I nearly passed out when he met me at the door early one morning and said he was comming down to help me feed and clean stalls!

 

[chicmom]

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My plan requires that I re-home five large fowl hens. I even have a friend who would love to have them. This weekend, my friend was picking up the birds, and I was going to clean each coop thoroughly (we're having nice weather in Ohio right now), and then put all the bantams in the big coop, and the three Buckeyes in the smaller coop.

My husband just can't part with the five hens. He says that Olive (one of the hens) is the only chicken that loves him....He says, you CAN'T get rid of Daisy! She's your first hen ever! You can't get rid of Petite Miss! So it comes down to, if I do what I want, I will make him feel bad. I can't stand that. I'm a total wimp. I'm disgusted. Plans ruined.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Here is what you need to do IMO:

Take him up on his offer for ONE large coop. Sell off all your little coops except one for chick raising and maybe another for quarantining/hospital.

At one time I had 11 coops going (tiny hutches, two handmade coops, one shed). I thought I would collapse with exhaustion with all the feeders/waterers. It took me hours each day to do all my chores.

I downsized to ONE shed coop, sold some of the coops, disassembled some for range shelters, and I thought I was in heaven. I still felt tired and not recovered so now I am taking a break and will never go back to the many little coops design (except for chick brooding of course).

 

[airmechreed]

My wife and I have this hobby together and I don't understand why a man, any man would not help out with that kind of chore. Doesn't he know how much other crap you have to do around the house with cleaning, cooking, laundry, bathrooms, dishes.....Holy crap if I had to do my wifes chores for a week the time I spend doing my chicken chores would be nothing.... I feed and water all the animals that is (not to sound like a jerk) the mans job....Not that the wife should do all the chores in the house either, but if you knew how easy it is for me to screw up loading the dishwasher you wouldn't let me do it either.... Anyway I think he should have some if not all a part in taking care of them, and tell him not to install things that make your job harder, unless you ask him to do so.

 

[citychickx6]

DH and I had a similar discussion about Ducky. She is small and does not lay well. I wanted to sell her or cull her. He says no she is his favorite hen. So I say then you need to find another job for her to do since she is not laying well. He is going to build a pergola over the garden so she can be my weeder hen. We shall see how that goes lol.

If he loves them so much he can tend them with you.
A perfect chance to have that talk was when he was saying " But you can't get rid of ____________"

 

[featherfinder]

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My plan requires that I re-home five large fowl hens. I even have a friend who would love to have them. This weekend, my friend was picking up the birds, and I was going to clean each coop thoroughly (we're having nice weather in Ohio right now), and then put all the bantams in the big coop, and the three Buckeyes in the smaller coop.

My husband just can't part with the five hens. He says that Olive (one of the hens) is the only chicken that loves him....He says, you CAN'T get rid of Daisy! She's your first hen ever! You can't get rid of Petite Miss! So it comes down to, if I do what I want, I will make him feel bad. I can't stand that. I'm a total wimp. I'm disgusted. Plans ruined.

You will have to stick up sometime or things will not change. I had a beautiful! black drake in with my ducks. I got him because DF wanted him because he was so pretty. Well the agreement was he had to help out in the pen. Went fine till the drake started being mean. He was very aggresive towards my other ducks and i had no choice but to find him a home. I found him a great home with someone who wants to show him in 4H. My DF on the other hand is still mad at me but i promised him a black duckling this year to raise and be friendly so we will see how that goes. I didnt do it behind his back but talking with him did alot of good. He wasnt hurt either. Just sad i sold "his" duck.

 

[CluckyJay]

Get a cattle prod. Worked for my meddling husband. Buhahahaha.

 

[Avalon1984]

Engage him. Tell him that if he wanted to keep the chickens, he will take care of them and pay for their care- or they go. Did that with hubby and a foal he wanted to keep that didn’t fit in my breeding program. He took me up to it and is paying for him and caring for him.

 

[llrumsey]

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Do you have an unmarried older brother??