Thought DH didnt want an incubator

[Lifesong Farm]

Ok I think I am going to die laughing.
1st DH didn't want me to get a bator, he buys me one for Christmas.
Then he didn't want me to put so many eggs in and didn't see why I was always checking it. I caught him "going to the bathroom" but found him in the kitchen checking eggs and when they were hatching he would yell when eggs moved. Most of the time he was the first out there.
Now he is asking when we are going to add more eggs to the bator because it has sat for a week! This question while he is holding a a chick (which by the way he doesn't like because he was attacked by a roo as a kid).

 

[GreenGoddess]

Quote:
Resistance is Futile... He will be assimilated!!!

Goddess

 

[Jennmom2three]

Reminds me of my husband!! I found Lavender Silkie eggs, showed him a pic and he said "ah, how cute!! Did ya get em?"

 

[critterranch]

men are softies.

 

[7L Farm]

Shoot I said the same thing. I have 48 eggs cooking right now. I'll never get a roo first chicken to go out this morning was Freddie go figure. Its normal chicken owner behaviour right!!

 

[Bobby Joe]

My DW said" no chickens and I mean none" but after a few weeks of doing everything she wanted done around the house I got chickens now I have had chickens only 6 weeks and have my first batch in the incubator this morning after 24hours in lockdown I said" look a chick has hatched out" she almost turned her chair over to see she too was attacked by a roo as a young adult and doesnt really want much to do with the grown chickens we have but I believe she will be alot more friendly with the babies

 

[Baralak]

I'm afraid to tell you, and be strong when you read this. Your DH is a closet Hatchaholic. His skills at hiding his compulsion are only eclipsed by his need to "buy you" incubation supplies, yet fueling his on desire to be maddly surrounded by fuzzbutts.

This is the hardest type of hatchaholicizm because he will not embrace his own "problem"

What you will have to do to help him with this, is to basically keep the incubator full until he admits it..

I am sure he can find a support group here on BYC because each of us on this thread know how to enable... um.. I mean support him in his time of need.

Certified Hatchaholic.

 

[columbiacritter]

My DH was admantly anti-chicken until he picked up my McMurray catalog. That was 4 years ago. Now he has two flocks of show quality bantams, 2 bators, one full of eggs and another batch of eggs due to ship to us in about 3 weeks. He reads the breed stanards book like a Harlequin romance.

 

[Davaroo]

Heres a tidbit about men:

We love few things more than a good science experiment. It gives us a chance to flex our mental muscles and control both our environment and the outcome.
It's the way we're wired. It isn't so much the hatching that we love, but the accomplishment.

Let it flow, baby - let it flow!

 

[abChicken]