OMG! I can't believe what my SO said today!!

[purr]

well, my DH will go along with any hairbrain scheme I have.But let's just say he was less than enthusiastic about having chickens again.
Now he calls from work to check on them.
My friend and I were on the phone this morning and I was telling her about my baby ducks. I have 2 and she has 2 of their siblings.
And we call each other and report on their progress.And as I was hanging up I said ok going to just sit here with an ice coffee and watch the chickens and ducks. And she said yeah we don't even watch TV anymore we just watch the animals.
I said yeah its cheap entertainment.
Next year I'm getting GOAT TV!

 

[sunshinegirl]

Interestingly, some guys he works with stopped out at our farm a few weeks back because they were in the area, and DH wanted to take them back to show them the chickens. Hmmmm....maybe he's coming over to OUR side after all!

Mine doesn't like to admit it either - when my mom asks him if he's enjoying the chickens more than he expected, he just says "they're okay". Actions, however, speak louder than words.

He doesn't like breakfast (I know, there MUST be something WRONG with him), but he does love deviled eggs and egg salad.

Does he like dessert? If so, this might bring him around:

Chocolate Crater Cake

8 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 cup butter
6 eggs
whipped cream
cocoa for dusting

Preheat oven to 350. Line the bottom of 8-inch springform pan with waxed paper. Do not grease pan. Melt chocolate and butter over very low heat (the original recipe says to use a double boiler, but I don't), stirring until smooth. Separate 4 of the eggs. Wisk 2 whole eggs and 4 egg yolks together with 1/2 cup sugar until well-blended, then add to chocolate mixture. Whip 4 egg whites with electric mixer until foamy. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar slowly, continuing to beat until soft peaks form. Fold egg whites into cooled chocolate mixture. Pour into prepared pan, smooth top and bake 35-40 minutes, until center doesn't wobble. Top will look puffy, dry, and may crack. Remove immediately to cooling rack, and let cake cool for 2 hours in pan. The top will fall, forming a crater. When the cake is completely cool, fill the crater with whipped cream and dust the top with cocoa.

My hubby isn't big on eggs or chocolate, but he absolutly loves this! And as it calls for half a dozen eggs, it might be a good justification for more chickens!

 

[CountryMom]

You know my husband had talked for years about getting chickens - large scale. I always told him I didn't have the time with three babies - he works oilflied away a LOT. Well, this year my youngest is 6 and I decided to get chickens. When he got home he got all puffy and did the "just what we need more mouths to feed." Then he mentioned another desire he has wanted - quail. Well, I said I don't mind us getting some quail, but I had to build a coop and sections and basically get set up. He said he would help me. Well, no help and no desire to help with the chickens until here recently. He asked me what was stopping me from getting quail. I said a pen/cage! LOL My time isn't always just sitting around eating bon bons you know! LOL So we came across an old pigeon cage and he picked it up without any complaint of dragging the big flat bed trailer out. It is huge and then went to visit a quail farm. Well, little did he know I had an incubator last week hatching out orpingtons in my daughter's bedroom (warmest room in the house). LOL He missed the entire thing, but then asked me if I needed to get supplies for the quail eggs we got and I said nope already got the incubator running!

He just looked at me. I mean, come on. He can see the red light of a brooder through the windows of our guinea pig barn! He must know I have chicks like earlier this year. So now he is all excited. I bet he will be sitting this weekend watching chicken TV looking forward to our pigeon cage being quail TV. He is also talking of building me my own little quail house. With this schedule I don't think he will have a huge amount of time, but then I won't have to hear moaning about the money I spend to get it done.

Now his father is the one who asks me all the time about the chickens and tells me he loves hearing our rooster crow in the morning from our side of the ranch. I think his excitement will rub off on dh.

 

[cajunlizz]

Sure sounds like he could be another one that melts when he finally gets them all in his blood .

 

[farmgirlie1031]

That's great!

 

[swampducks]

It is weird how some of the naysayers seem to come around. My DH pretty much rolled his eyes when I started talking chickens. I started with 6 ducks last year, and I said I would NEVER have chickens. lol But DH turned out to be allergic to duck eggs, so I had to have chickens...

Now I have 13 ducks, more than 20 duck eggs in the 'bator, 4 chickens, 2 guineas and more chickens and guineas on order.

In the midst of all this chaos he grudgingly agreed to build me a coop, (at first he was looking for some junk trailer, etc for me to use), but decided he may as well build me a decent one.

Next thing you know he adds a nice size run to it.

A few days ago, he built me some stairs on the side of the deck nearest the coop so I don't have to walk the long way around anymore!

Then the other day, as we sat on the deck, watching the chickens, reading our books, he was also testing a homemade automatic water bowl filling system for the chickens.

And tonight, while I learned from his mom how to make her fried chicken with my fresh Cornish Xs, I hear him talking to his dad about chicken feed, and now he's designing a chicken tractor to make future Cornish X raising easier for me.

And he only started all this Memorial Day!!!