Who has that husband/wife who is always saying NO MORE CHICKENS!! 😂

[AshVau22]

Evening y'all. So as the title states who has that significant other who's always saying no to more chickens/critters. What do y'all do to get your way lol Last spring my sweet husband said I could get 15 chickens. I eventually got that number up to 30. So logically I now have 57 chickens. If he ever asks we have 30 chicken lord help me if that man ever decides he want to count chickens.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Fortunately I don’t have this problem but I do get told I fuss too much over them

 

[AshVau22]

Fortunately I don’t have this problem but I do get told I fuss too much over them

Whenever I say I'm going out to the birds my husband's reply is always see you tomorrow lol

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I WISH my DH would say no to me! My hen house holds about 24. I have 20 adults including a rooster. I ordered 15 chicks in July because heaven help me, that was the minimum order. But instead of 15 the hatchery very generously gave me 21!!! What am I going to do with 41 chickens???
Guess I need to sell a bunch of my year-old layers!

 

[CombNWattles]

What about parents?

 

[Debbie292d]

I always stop hatching and keeping chicks July 1 as these silkies need to be four/five months old to be able to leave the growout pens and be integrated into the main coop before winter hits.

I had requests for older chicks last spring, for 4H and other reasons. Thus, I announced, I'd like to set about two dozen eggs and grow them out over the winter. Hubby said, "I thought you wanted the break for a while, no stress, etc.?" I said I'm stressed drooling over three empty incubators, and will unstress when I see eggs in them. He said, "It's your hobby, do what you want to do."

 

[AinaWGSD]

Yeah, my husband is an enabler. He wouldn't let me put any more eggs under broody hens this year, but to be fair we were up to about 40 chickens at that point.