Poll: How did your partner react to you keeping chickens?

[Tre3hugger]

My partner started with the "they were excited but it was my idea" option. At this point it is more like the "NO WAY" but I keep getting birds (not just chickens) anyway.

 

[The Tiny Homestead]

So I’m curious if you are a couple, how did your partner react to you when you first wanted to keep chickens? (If it’s changed or you want to elaborate, please leave a comment!)

My sweetie's entire yard is devoted to permaculture growing. i'm more traditional with annual garden vegetables, perrenial herbs, fruit trees and berries. She was excited when I said I was getting chickens, and has been a big help. We don't agree on how to do everything, mostly because I do more reading, spend more time here learning from you all.
she loves to change things up and make interesting little areas in the yard for te birds to hang out. I could definitely handle them on my own, but it's so much more fun when there is someone to talk to about the birds, and who shares my enthusiasm about them.

 

[OzarkChooks]

We have a homestead so he has wanted chickens. He kind of rolled his eyes at the pricier fancy chickens I bought but he likes them. I just had a baby so he and our eldest son have been taking care of them with no complaints.

 

[Isadora]

All the poultry on our farm, with the exception of our meat birds, are my thing. He always encourages me to branch out and try new things with them. That's probably because I try to be very reasonable about all the stuff I do with my birds. I'm sure if I was trying to buy chicks every time I went to the feed store, he would not let me have as much freedom as I do with them. He couldn't afford it.
So he's very supportive of me having my poultry, and he has built me a fancy coop and a couple different chicken tractors for them. He also loves that they make me happy.

 

[vintage]

Dh and I were both on board to get chickens. Everyone in our family are pretty big egg eaters, I cook and bake with them a lot. Dh built the coop/run and I fast tracked my way to crazy chicken lady .

Full disclosure, he would get a bit irritated by my chick obsession at first. He viewed the chickens as a resource, not pets. Our kids immediately named them so they were pets from day one lol.

He did warm up to their chicken charm. When he would walk outside they'd all run up to him and follow him around, which won him over. Now we sit outside and we watch them together.

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Dh and I were both on board to get chickens. Everyone in our family are pretty big egg eaters, I cook and bake with them a lot. Dh built the coop/run and I fast tracked my way to crazy chicken lady .

Full disclosure, he would get a bit irritated by my chick obsession at first. He viewed the chickens as a resource, not pets. Our kids immediately named them so they were pets from day one lol.

He did warm up to their chicken charm. When he would walk outside they'd all run up to him and follow him around, which won him over. Now we sit outside and we watch them together.

Thats a beautiful thing to read right there. ^^

 

[MysteryChicken]

Other, I'm Single. I have no partner to react to my 56 chickens, 4 Guineas, 1 Bourbon Red Turkey, & 5 BB Bronze Turkeys.

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

Other, I'm Single. I have no partner to react to my 56 chickens, 4 Guineas, 1 Bourbon Red Turkey, & 5 BB Bronze Turkeys.

Well good luck finding one that shares your affinity with birds!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Well good luck finding one that shares your affinity with birds!

I was never allowed to find a boyfriend. Dating sites are abit intimidating.

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

I was never allowed to find a boyfriend. Dating sites are abit intimidating.

Well I’m sorry to hear that.