Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Oliveview on March 16, 2008, 12:25
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now he goes trotting down the garden to collect the eggs and feed the hens, and even worries about the new hens being bullied! He says the eggs taste lovely too. I haven´t reminded him he DID NOT WANT under any surcumstances any hens, he got into quite a sulk when I started to build the hen house! See it is ok to ignore hubbies after all :D :lol: :wink: :) :tongue2:
Pamela
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now he goes trotting down the garden to collect the eggs and feed the hens, and even worries about the new hens being bullied! He says the eggs taste lovely too. I haven´t reminded him he DID NOT WANT under any surcumstances any hens, he got into quite a sulk when I started to build the hen house! See it is ok to ignore hubbies after all :D :lol: :wink: :) :tongue2:
Pamela
Never done it anyother way Pamela!!!! :lol: :lol: :wink:
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I keep trying to ignore Brian, but he won't go away!!!!!!
I'm pleased Jim loves them too now Pamela! Now, where's that new member who said her hubby didn't want chooks?????
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Here :D He deffo says "no" as now the dog is no more he wants us to be free to clear off when we want. Having said that we've been absolutely nowhere so I'm getting chickens so there :twisted:
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Here :D He deffo says "no" as now the dog is no more he wants us to be free to clear off when we want. Having said that we've been absolutely nowhere so I'm getting chickens so there :twisted:
way to go queenie 8)
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I keep gazing out the window at the blank bit of garden where I intend to let them run about, and imagining a picket fence with a picket gate which I've painted green, and it will look so beautiful planted with chives and calendula, and I shall walk out into the dewy morning with my wicker basket picking beautiful brown eggs for my waiting guests breakfast :lol:
I loves daydreamin. Could do it all day :D
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ah day dreaming mine normally involves the women's Swedish surf team :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
but for some reason they are beating me with there surf boards :cry:
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:oops: :oops: I never listen to my hubby, tho I am quite lucky he is very easy going :D However, he has said in the past "whats to point in saying no, you will only go and do it anyway", so I guess he has sort of resigned himself to accepting all the animals as part of his wifey package :lol: :lol: :lol:
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:oops: :oops: I never listen to my hubby, tho I am quite lucky he is very easy going :D However, he has said in the past "whats to point in saying no, you will only go and do it anyway", so I guess he has sort of resigned himself to accepting all the animals as part of his wifey package :lol: :lol: :lol:
Ditto, mine also knows when to admit defeat :D :D
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Same as mine Jellyhead, after 33 years he's given up and only occasionalyy raises objections to my plans.
He does get fully involved with everything though, its all a joint effort
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Mine too, I actually think, though he'd never admit it :) he loves the girls as much as I do!
Birthday, Christmas etc etc whenever he asks what you want...CHICKENS, CHICKENS, CHICKENS! Accept no excuses, they're easy to get someone to care for whilst you go away...if you can bare to leave them that is!
Alternatively, nag, nag, nag and nag a bit more!! :twisted:
Or...how about buying them for him.... :wink: !
Good luck!
Judi
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After 20+ years of being in the husband game, I know it's better to say yes and join in than be left out in the cold.
And I enjoy the chooks as much as Julie does. How else would I have got to build a wooden chalet style cabin ?
Admittedly I hadn't quite got a coop in mind but I played with my hammer and some wood.
Go for it CQ. Or make him take you on holiday.
Rob
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Oooh yes good idea, give him an alternative that he REALLY REALLY wont want and then the prospect of chooks will seem ok, failing that, do what I do, tell him you've got some, when he asks how many look down, flutter eyelashes and say er em don't ask you will kill me, lead him to think that you have gone and got 20or so, then, when you tell him its only 2,3,4 or 5 it will be a relief 8) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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OH's soon learn its in their best interest to keep us girls happy. Mine certainly has!! (Perhaps of he ever learns how to work the cooker, things will change...nah thinking about it, Im safe for life!!)
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I keep gazing out the window at the blank bit of garden where I intend to let them run about, and imagining a picket fence with a picket gate which I've painted green, and it will look so beautiful planted with chives and calendula, and I shall walk out into the dewy morning with my wicker basket picking beautiful brown eggs for my waiting guests breakfast
:lol:
And when I get old I shall wear purple....... :lol: :lol:
I loves daydreamin. Could do it all day
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So do I, & I do :lol:
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:D :lol:
My imaginery hens already have names - Billie, Peggy and Dinah 8)
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mine too, henrietta is my fav name, kids want tikka, kiev and jalfrezi!! defintely not :lol: :lol:
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Jellyhead seems like we have got our O/Hs sorted mine is exactly the same he just says ok dear and another animal joins our little family. Even this weekend when my incubator is almost full to the top I said can I get more hatching eggs and he just said if you want. :lol: I think he is well trained. I didn't let on I was thinking of buying a second incubator. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Must admit when I had problems with my neighbours and I dared to suggest that maybe we should sell our chickens he was the first to say we are not selling them in a very determined voice. It was then I realised he loves them as much as me just its not the male thing to go all mushy with them when someone is watching is it?
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Aaaah, I do appreciate my hubby you know as I am sure you do. I know a lot of people whose hubbies just say NO and its a done deal, to me thats not right but although I get away with a lot I don't take the p**s and thats what its all about really, in my very humble jellied opinion :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:
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I've read all this with interest as I have the opposite problem! I struggle to keep my OH from buying chooks everywhere he goes! We started with 4 hybrids about 5 years ago and now have 9, although the record was 14! We went out to 'restock' with 2 more layers a few weeks ago and came back with 4 :roll:
To be fair, I'd love more (and more and more ....) but we don't have the space :? Good job I have a practical side ...
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We are both as bad as each other - david was the one who saw the sultans and basically said we werent leaving the farm until we had one of them too - and come to think of it the three lavender araucana chicks in our spare bedroom were his idea too.
But i think we are even after i phoned him and said 'david.... I might have got us a cat' what do you mean he said - my reply was 'as in it is in the living room so be careful when you come home that it doesnt escape'!!! He hates cats but i have found him talking to it and stroking it when he doesnt think im looking!
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We are both as bad as each other - david was the one who saw the sultans and basically said we werent leaving the farm until we had one of them too - and come to think of it the three lavender araucana chicks in our spare bedroom were his idea too.
But i think we are even after i phoned him and said 'david.... I might have got us a cat' what do you mean he said - my reply was 'as in it is in the living room so be careful when you come home that it doesnt escape'!!! He hates cats but i have found him talking to it and stroking it when he doesnt think im looking!
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Particularly love the idea of Araucanas in the spare bedroom!
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Hahaha - had friends round for dinner the other day who we hadnt seen in about 6 months. Their eyes bulged when i referred to the spare room as the nursery thinking we had some big news to tell them. Then they saw it was called that as it is full of seedlings, chitting potatoes and three chicks!!
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Did they leave very quickly?
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I keep gazing out the window at the blank bit of garden where I intend to let them run about, and imagining a picket fence with a picket gate which I've painted green, and it will look so beautiful planted with chives and calendula, and I shall walk out into the dewy morning with my wicker basket picking beautiful brown eggs for my waiting guests breakfast
:lol:
And when I get old I shall wear purple....... :lol: :lol:
And wear a red hat which doesn't go... :lol:
(love that poem :wink: )
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My hubby was using delaying tactics, then friends of ours got some and gave us their cockerel, so he had to get on and fence off an area, and now I currently have 6 hens and a cockerel. I mentioned to him that there is a poultry show not far from here in a couple of weeks, and he says he wants to go too :shock: he said it is to keep an eye on me, but I know we will come back with a few more hens :wink:
and he loves coming home from work and seeing the chooks in the garden, he throws in his left over applecore from his lunchbox ...aaaaaah :lol: