My husband thinks i'm CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!

[FlockEweFarm]

My ex-husband grumbles and bellyaches about all my animals, and he even teases me about being on here at the ,"Cyber hen party", but then I catch him out on the back porch with the "Girls" as he calls the goats, cuddled up next to him nibbling on his cap, and him scratching their ears and talking baby talk to them, and yesterday, when our 4 year old daughter hurt my rooster Strangle, he decended on her with a wrath that was Biblical, and I saw him out in the yard later looking at the roo and talking to him. He asked me the other day when my ,"High dollar yard ornaments" were going to start producing his breakfast, and I read him the signs of a hen maturing, and he actually was interested enough to look up the website himself and read some of the information!

There may be hope for him yet, but he still thinks I am crazy, and he calls me,"The Chicken Whisperer".

He wont process any of my extra Roos for me, said that I saddled the horse, I have to ride it, unless of course I go after Strangle, then we may have a fight, looks like he has a favorite.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Adam thought I was loosing my mind too.... but, then, he realized that he wanted some turkey and quail.. LOL So know we are even considering a pig or two.. So we can be weird together. His parents aren't too thrilled about it, they think we are "starting a slaughter house in the backyard." LOL

-Kim

 

[deb1]

For some reason slaughtering our chickens never bothered my family. I think that this is because we explained early on that the chickens that we raise were killed in a much more humane manner then what we buy in the store. Also, they lived good lives before they died. I've heard that the chickens that we buy in the store are not always kept in the most humane conditions.

So maybe you can all point out to your hubby's that it is actually kinder to kill your own chickens then to buy meat processed for modern grocery stores.

I am trying to talk my hubby into getting a very small flock again now that we have settled into our new home. Hopefully the fact that he has agreed to go to Lowes and look at lumber for a possible chicken coop, means that he is about to give me the okay for some new chickens.

Yeah, my hubby thinks I am crazy too, but then again, he married me so what does that say about him.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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You just know he went to check out the power tools with his buddies. LOL That's what Adam would have done, spent 30 seconds glancing over the wood and then 15+ minutes playing in the power tool section.

I think what really "weirds" people out is the thought that you are actually "killing" something. We are brought up in a society were "killing" is a constant bad. When you tell people you "butcher" your own birds, most people's brain automatically consider it "bad" or "cruel" or "cold". We humans are so "domesticated" sometimes it's comical.

People don't view the stuff at the stores as "killed animals" it is neatly packaged "food". Many people have trouble linking it together. It is why you don't see many of the old style butcher shops where the skinned and eviscerated animals are hanging in the windows as advertisement.

-Kim

 

[chiknwhisperer]

You have a really good point about the butcher shops. We have one close by but they don't hang up anything. They actually try to keep you from having to see any of it going on. There are many people who go there for their meat but I think they still prefer to stay away from the whole " it got butchered " part of it.

 

[miss_thenorth]

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Mine doesn't flip, he just tells me to slow down! Been here since sept 2008,came with 2 horses, got laying hens within 2 weeks, adopted 5 OEGBs, then got two goats, have an oegb with two chicks, one other sitting on eggs, 24 meat birds, and 10 week old barred rock pullets. next i want a cow. After the cow though, I am done. or am I???? MUAHHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

 

[MissPrissy]

Weird? Crazy? Have you looked at my signature line lately? All for meat/milk/egg production ...

 

[Linda in San Diego]

So "men" who would not blink an eye at gutting a fish get quesy about chickens and hoofed animals? I think we have gone too far in the "civilized" world. I was one of those girls who could and would bait their own hook, as well as gut and clean my own fish.

As a teen, I was very upset after visiting a cattle processing plant. But I am certain that if I was processing my own I would not be as horrorfied. Watching the slaughter of all those steer was sad. But when I read about meat prepared to be Kosher or Halil, I am not bothered. It is an intentional use of the meat, not a slaughter.

If and when we decide to do our own meat birds, I think I will be ok. I will perform my own ritual that will thank the being for providing for me and mine.

For now, I willl thank my Delightful Dozen for their daily controbutions. And perhaps, in the future I will thank them for their contributions to my table.

 

[Guitartists]

LMAO My DH makes me take the fish off the hooks

I doubt he will be processing any chickens anytime soon

But who knows

 

[SimplyAbundantFarm]

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Don't mention goats around my DH, he said he would never drink goats milk. I'm trying to convince him that I need more land and a couple goats lol.

**Warning** You may not want to allow unconvinced DH's and DBF's to read this next post because if they do, you'll never get your goats!**

You'll have to do what I did to trick my ex-husband into drinking goat's milk. I just kept emptying the store bought gallon jug and refilling it with goat's milk. He drank it for months before he realized it. The only way I got 'busted' was because I forgot to swap out the jug and he saw the expiration date and realized it was month's old!

After the sputtering died down, I told him that he had been drinking it for months -- and that all those good things he had been eating that were made with milk -- homemade mac'n'cheese, mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs -- all had been made with it, too!

I also did the 'we need a goat, honey' thing. In my case, the argument was because my son had tummy troubles when he was a baby and the doctor recommended goat's milk. After I sold him on the idea that it was wayyyy too expensive and not fresh enough from the store, we ended up getting a pair of Alpine does. Of course, we had to get two does because the first one would have been lonely.

Then, of course, once we had the goats, I thought it would be a great 4-H project for the kids, so we needed to buy nice quality goats.

Then, of course, we needed a trailer to haul the goats to the fair.

Then, of course, we needed to get a new vehicle to pull that trailer to all the goat shows in a 150 mile radius.

Then, of course (I think you can see where this is going), we needed to build a nicer barn than the little shed we had them in at first.


Then, of course, we needed to get a Pyrenees LGD to keep an eye on the goats.

Then, of course, I increased the herd to nearly 30 goats over time.

Then, of course, we had to buy a new place with a nice big barn and good fencing.

Then, of course, he realized that buying the milk for $2.49/quart (this was in the early 90's -- I have no clue how much it is now) would have been MUCH cheaper...but by then it was too late for him to do anything but grumble about it!

(This is really exactly how it happened!)