I moved her to "The Nursery", a small self-contained coop we got earlier this year to keep chickens in until we had the main coop revived and fenced in.
Yesterday I drove out to a farm which advertises chicks year round and came home with 6 chicks. I came home with 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 Brown Leghorn, and 1 Buckeye. I was so excited to be able to add these to my flock!
Now let me stop here and say that I had discussed this with Hubby before hand. I invited him to go with me, to which he declined. I let him know my plan for holding the chicks until darkness when I could put them under my Broody.
I got home, set the chicks up, and I don't know why but Hubby totally lost it. I don't think I've seen him that mad in the 26 years we've been married. He was mad to the point that he stormed out, left and was gone for several hours. When he got home, all I got were dirty looks and he refused to speak with me.
This made it rather uncomfortable when #1 and his lovely bride came over for dinner, but we managed to get through it.
I decided it wasn't worth the stress between us to keep the chicks, so #1 and the love of his life went home with 6 chicks to raise and add to their flock.
This morning Hubby seems to be speaking to me again, which was a relief. I was ready to go out and just stay away from the house for the day if he was still not speaking to me. Admittedly I was angry at his reaction to what I had believed he had agreed to. Not quite angry enough to go out and buy a couple goats to add to our property, but angry enough to go on a spending spree for some things I've wanted for a while and not gotten. I was angry enough to want to just completely over-react to the whole situation.
This could have been avoided if he would have even consented to have a conversation with me about the situation, but as I said before, all I was getting was dirty looks filled with what looked like hate and disgust.
I know, silly reaction. I never claimed to be reasonable when I'm angry.
We are both walking on eggshells this morning. His peace offering seems to be an invite to go to the county fair. I'll see where it goes from here.