Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Blue-DiamondChick07]

.. But the Hen Keeping hobby seems to be very much a female one, wonder why that is is it because we often get reffered to as 'Hens'when we sit talking/clucking for ages I'm sure men keep them too, but have definatley noticed that its definatley more popular with us ladies

 

Happy Easter to all too x

[Chook n Boo Mum]

.....but some of our names are confusing & we are actually boys rather than girls or girls rather than boys.........

 

Not me personally though, I'm a hen with a cockerel & 2 chicks

 

Sha x

[figarogir1]

I think it is just an inbuilt resistance that men have. It took me two years to convince my husband to get my four girls and now he is the most doting hen mummy you could imagine. He hasnt quite managed to clean the cube yet though - leaves that to me - maybe that is why we are nearly all girls, men want the eggs and the hens but not the responsibility or the mess

[Blue-DiamondChick07]

I think it is just an inbuilt resistance that men have. It took me two years to convince my husband to get my four girls and now he is the most doting hen mummy you could imagine. He hasnt quite managed to clean the cube yet though - leaves that to me - maybe that is why we are nearly all girls, men want the eggs and the hens but not the responsibility or the mess

 

That probably is that yeah!

Its not just on here Ive noticed this, I often find that its a woman thing.....

[Space Chick]

It was actually my husband that wanted chickens, he had to persuade me

 

Mostly as I knew I'd be the one to do the cleaning out etc etc

 

However, getting the girls was the best thing we ever did, and we love spending time with them together, and whilst I always clean out the poo trays and cube (apart from the pressure wash days ), he does always do the bulk of the heavy work on the big WIR cleaning days So we share the responsibility more than I anticipated.

[Couperwife]

I didnt want chickens either - Kev wanted them a lot more than I did - he does the cleaning and emptying of poo trays - I feed/water and collect eggs

 

I think that there are more women on the forum though - I definitely chat on here a lot more than Kev does

 

cathy

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[Chick-a-doodle-doo]

yep, my hubby loves em too. He made a huge wir for them and is much better at cleaning out than I am. I collect eggs and chat. We have recently started hatching too and he got some quail.

[ISCA]

I hadn't really noticed either way. But it can be difficult to guess gender from forum nicknames perhaps, and we then make assumptions. My name on here is not gender specific, so am I male or female?

[Redwing]

The chicken show world is very male dominated

[half dozen]

Is that ISCA from exeter.......

[tom123]

I'm a boy

[ISCA]

Is that ISCA from exeter.......

It is!

 

ISCA DUMNIORUM being the Roman name for Exeter.

[jimnpaula]

This is why our username is inclusive, and we sign off with an initial to show who posted. It's just something we carried over from another forum. (Just noticed though that 'our' avatar is a wee mee of me in uniform with a stethoscope around my neck!)

 

As for chicken duties - he gets to go out most mornings to collect eggs and refresh grubs & glugs, I get the cleaning out job, and wash the eggs. He gets to clean the ferrets out instead.

 

P

[Chucky1]

But it can be difficult to guess gender from forum nicknames perhaps, and we then make assumptions.

 

That is so true . A couple of times on here I have made gender assumption that has subsequently turned out incorrect - I think we do it without thinking and most of the time our conversations don't require us to reveal our assumptions.

 

For record I am male - DW hasn't much interest in computer type things - I think we're pretty 50/50 (but then I would wouldn't I ). I generally clean the cubes and the ponds. I refill the feeder but then it is a 25Kg bag to lift and refill the water butt for the drinker. Letting them out, putting them to bed is 50/50.

 

No idea ISCA