jennydavies Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 I am glad to say that I am in the same enviable posistion as Jenthelibrarian. My wonderful Husband helps me no end with our girls. He will do any repairs needed on the wooden henhouse and built side extensions onto it for shelter from rain and sun, it looks like a little villa. I do the feeding, cleaning etc because I enjoy it but Charlie will step in whenever I ask and I hear him chatting away to the girls while he is working in the veggie garden. He rigged up all the lights in the run for me so that I can do my cleaning in the darker winter mornings and he is always thinking of stuff to make our girls lives better. He is planning now to make the run bigger so that we can have even more girls. Bless him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackian Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 After writing on this that my OH was keen on the girls but not as keen on me ..We were chatting this afternoon about this and that and he suddenly said: "Do you know that having these chickens were one of our better ideas ..I can't imagine being without them" So there was me thinking after 35 years that I knew him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 After writing on this that my OH was keen on the girls but not as keen on me .... oh dear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackian Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 After writing on this that my OH was keen on the girls but not as keen on me .... oh dear! I meant as me . He loves me really . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 After writing on this that my OH was keen on the girls but not as keen on me .... oh dear! I meant as me . He loves me really . Glad to hear that he loves you as well as the girls My OH is not as enthusiastic as I am. He will collect eggs if I am out and he did build a lovely WIR which he did admit he enjoyed doing but he does not do the everyday chicken jobs. He is worried though now that I have caught the hatching bug Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 havent told OH I sung his praises on here as he might it appears from reading your replies - many men help grudgingly to please the lady in their life and a few are very enthuiastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopingforchickens Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 My OH seems the norm then, he thinks I have far too many animals - like he has a choice! Fortunately he never listens to a word I say about anything and it finally worked in my favour, when I agreed to take on my friends chooks when she moved house... he asked me why I was clearing the old lavender flower bed and I replied 'Oh you really don't listen to a word I say do you?!' it worked a treat In the end my friend's chooks were 'got' by Mr Fox before they made it to ours and the rest is history! OH has nothing to do with the chickens, they live in a WIR so they don't need letting out or anything and if I ever went away without him I'd rather ask my friend to sort the girls out rather than him! He did help me and my Dad build the new WIR in the summer though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Him Indoors does offer eggs to all and sundry, but does bog all in terms of caring for the hens. He did once carry a sack of pellets from the car to the storage bin when my back was playing up It wouldn't occur to him to complain about how I choose to spend my money, and I don't complain about how he chooses to spend his. What's his is mine and what's mine is my own. Had to laugh! Slightly different situation as The Boy is only a weekend visitor, so they are my chooks and it's my money. Having said that he loves them to bits and will happily help out when he is around... he recently cleaned them out etc while I was in hospital with Rosie. Being a farm boy in origin, he is good with most animals, but would prefer not to walk the dogs if possible. He once commented that he knows his place... somewhere after Rosie and the animals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 it appears from reading your replies - many men help grudgingly to please the lady in their life and a few are very enthuiastic. Yes my OH is a grudging kind. He has done lots to help me with painting ramps, shelters and houses for chickens according to whatever colour whim I am having , he comes to Omlet get togethers to give me support and he often shuts the chickens in at night even when it is very cold like tonight, but whenever he talks about the chickens it is to say how much they poo (far too much) and how so and so has just been nasty to so and so. If I say I'll stop at 9 chickens, he says '8 would be better' The ducks on the other hand are his 'little angels' to the point where if there are any chicken owners out there who feel they need to please their OH, I'd get a pair of ducks. It works wonders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeky Chooky Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Strange but true! My OH chuckles at our girls and he adores our Pekins and little Silkied Seramas in particular but he cleans the duck's run, changes the water in their trug and tops up their pellets If I say that I'll do it, he says "Ahem, I do ducks!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Well having waxed lyrical about OH - he was most miffed today when I told him the girls are using his wooden house as a WC. He seems to have gone off them a bit. Serves me right for gloating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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