Response to husband and chickens

HMMMMM, YOU WERE TOLD YOU COULD NEVER GET CHICKENS, AND NOW HE WANTS CHICKENS INSTEAD OF RABBITS? SOUNDS LIKE HE WANTS TO GET SOME OF HIS CHILDHOOD BACK - WHICH I'M SURE WILL BE GREAT. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HUSBANDS NEW FOUND WAY OF THINKING. I'M 33 YEARS OLD AND HAVE BEEN RAISING CHICKENS SINCE I WAS A TEENAGER. I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT THEM. I HAD STARTED OUT WITH A FEW, AND JUST KEPT GETTING MORE, HATCHING THEM OUT ETC. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I WAS UP OVER 150 CHICKENS (I THOUGHT SELL THE EXTRA EGGS, MAKE SOME MONEY.) YEAH RIGHT! WHEN YOU HAVE 5 YEAR OLD HENS, THEY WON'T MAKE A PROFIT FOR YOU! OF COURSE, THIS IS MY OWN FAULT. ON OUR PLACE A HEN GETS TO RETIRE AND DIE OF OLD AGE, UNLESS SHE GETS HIT BY A CAR, KILLED BY OUR DOG (THEY SHOULD KNOW NOT TO GET IN REACH OF HER CHAIN!), OR KILLED BY SOME UNKNOWN ANIMAL. ANYHOW, AFTER LOSING MONEY FOR SEVERAL YEARS, I HAVEN'T BEEN HATCHING ANY OUT LATELY SO I'M NOW DOWN TO 30 SOME. ANYHOW, I'VE RAMBLED. MY MAIN REASON FOR THIS MESSAGE IS TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND TO TELL YOU TO HAVE FUN WITH THEM! IN FACT, I THINK YOUR HUSBAND IS GOING TO BE A LOT MORE INTERESTED IN THEM MORE THAT WHAT YOU THOUGHT, OR HE THOUGHT FOR THAT MATTER! GOOD LUCK.

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