Rural Gardening: Need Help Convincing DH to let me have a few chickens., 1 by green04735

green04735 wrote:
I have to agree with the above also,my dh turned our playhouse that he had built for our granddaughters into a small coop big enough for 10 chickens,and he told me lets see how you like taking water out to the chickens when there is 2 feet of snow and the wind is blowing and its below zero.I did it and liked it so now I have this.I now have 12 silkies in the little coop and about 30 in the big coop.I sell my eggs and that buys my feed and that is it.The only reason I got the ibg coop was my Dad passed away and left me a little mony and thats what I did with it.If its cold where you live you need to think of a heat lamp also,so you have to have electricty in the coop to keep the water form freezing to.Now my dh likes the chickens as much as I do but he wouldn`t say that to anyone.