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I love having kids here! Especially those that are wanting a first time 4-H project or something. I can't wait for my two youngest granddaughters to be old enough to come help me feed and water and gather eggs.
 
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Make a game with your boy. Show him things without his glasses, then show him things with his glasses. Come up with a prize if he can see something with them that he couldn't without them. After a while he'll decide that he likes being able to see better. I don't like wearing glasses either. It takes a while to get used to them and I still don't wear mine the greatest amount of time. Give him breaks from them off and on for short periods so they don't make his ears sore or something that will turn him away from them completely. Tell him how cute he looks and praise him when he wears them. He'll come around.
I know several people that run turkeys and chickens together all the time. Not a problem unless your chickens have blackhead disease. Your hatchery chicks should be fine.
What color silkies are you looking for BTW?

I want white silkies! But I'd be okay with lavendar or black... maybe even splash. I might have to be convinced into the buff, though, since I like the others better. My favorite is the white. Yeah, I'm with you, I don't think my turkey or the new chicks will have anything to hurt each other. My turkey is very healthy, I check her over every night and look at her legs to be sure. When will I need to worm her.. and with what, BTW? If she was hatched in late May, she'd be nearly 4 months old now. (i got her in late June-- and she was already starting to get wing feathers in her fluff). I'm pretty sure I could tell a healthy flock from a sick one.. or at least one that lived in deplorable conditions and might be afflicted with all kinds of things. I was around healthy chickens when I was a kid-- pretty much all my life until I moved out and went to college. That is about the time my dad got rid of his chickens. I was not the care provider for them, but I did work them in 4-H and dragged them around to shows. I just consider myself a newbie since I was not the one accumulating all the good know-how about them. I learned how to wash them, and polish them up.
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I will definitely be your backyard hobbist, since I have no intentions of ever going crazy with breeding, but I do think it would be a super fun project for the kids! Especially if I get some really nice silkies from Renee- that might start us off on the 4H for the boys. I'm just really excited to get silkie babies!
 
oh Danz, forgot to say he is doing better with his glasses this afternoon. BUt I will take your advice and let him have a couple of breaks so it doesn't pinch his ears. I DO remember that new glasses would give me headaches from being really tight at first. Thanks for the tip.
 
I have some blacks and some partridge. The partridge aren't nearly as pretty. No whites. I think they are beautiful but everyone has whites. Mine are about at point of lay. I don't have them separated to their own quarters yet so I haven't produced any chicks. Hopefully I'll have some chicks by the first of the year.

It's just one of my many projects.
Speaking of projects, since we finally got some rain and quite a bit ran into the new pond I am building for the Mandarins; my other ducks discovered it today. They certainly gave their seal of approval. Splashing and squawking. Problem is now I will have to pump it out and clean it before I put the Mandies and wood ducks in there.
 
I got my card in the mail yesterday. I plan to go. Problem is I will want to come home with a camel or zebra or something. Those auctions are the death of me.
 
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My hubby and I swore off auctions for a while.... for the same reason. Every weekend, though, there is one we would like to go to. Sometimes we break down and say, "Well, let's just go look to see what's there."

Wrong. We end up staying every time and buying things we really hadn't planned on.
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My server is on the fritz. It took 15 minutes for this page to load. Grrr! I couldn't get on at all last night.
There is a zebra/horse cross. I've seen several of them at Yates Center. They don't usually have nearly as many stripes and are kind of grey. There are also zedonks which are zebra/ donkey crosses. They still seem a little hyper compared to most horses.
I am an auction freak. I love antiques and I had to make myself stop going to auctions because I have no sense when it comes to buying stuff. The last one I went to to buy an incubator cost me over $400 in additional antiques I couldn't resist, but have no place to put. I've done pretty good. Probably not over 10 auctions in the last 4 years. I used to find one EVERY weekend. I particularly love estate auctions. It's harder to get good deals anymore because there are so many antique dealers that show up.
So tomorrow is slated to be an auction day. And of course I am super broke as I always am this time of year. Car tags and insurance come due for me this coming month. I have a small business and my yearly order is due to ship the 30th of this month. That means I have to choke up $$ for that. I also have a bunch of medical bills coming in. Just paid $500 to a Topeka hospital and $250 to a doctor up there yesterday. And of course it is nearly the first of the month and that means choking out a house payment. It all adds up to more income than I have coming in.
YET... I have no sense and am still going to an auction. It's my getaway and I love going. If all the other people would stay home it would be perfect!!
 
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