I've wanted to live on a farm with lots of animals since I was 3 or 4 years old. (We lived in a metroplex at the time.) My husband is a rancher and a teacher, and I told him I'd always wanted chickens. We were offered some chicks a few years ago by another teacher at the school where he worked and he said, "You'll have to ask my wife." Woohoo!!! We've had chickens since. The first year I calculated how much I spent on them I was nervous about telling him. All he said was, "Okay." I asked him if it bothered him that I spent almost 2 thousand dollars on them, (food, coop building material, ect.) and he said, "Well, did you have 2 thousand dollars worth of fun?" I giggled like a little girl and said, I think I had atleast 5 thousand dollars worth of fun so far." He just smiled and said, "Alright then." I have the best husband in the World!!!