Thought you might like to hear one of the donkeys. It isn't his best bray, but you'll get the idea. In case you are wondering, he has to stay in the pen during the day because him and one of the other donkeys don't get along so they need to be separated. He gets to come out when the other one goes up. And yes, that is mud you see! This is the only area where it is that muddy.

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Donkeys, donkeys everywhere

For those of you who have never had a donkey in your life, please allow me to say that they are incredible animals. Very intelligent. Loving. Comical. Some are more vocal than others. Each has their own distinct bray. They are fantastic guardians. They are watchers. They watch everything. And you can bet if one of these beautiful animals is watching something and turns tail and runs in the opposite direction, I'm headed in the same direction! Sadly donkeys are one of the most abused and neglected due to the fact that a lot of people think they are dumb and stubborn and worthless. Well, all I can say is I cannot imagine my life without them in it. I took these pictures this afternoon and my first thought was donkeys, donkeys, everywhere. Hope you enjoy.

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Video of Chickies

Thanks to Danni at Critter Farm and John at Going Gently, I was inspired to post a video of the chickies. First time uploading and posting one! Hopefully I did it right and you can watch it!

There are now three White Silky babies. Bonnie is still sitting on eggs while Little Inger teaches the youngsters.

The next thing I need to learn is how to add other bloggers addresses into my posts. In the meantime the blogs mentioned can be found in my favs and followings.

Stay tuned for more possible hatchings.

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Bringing the outdoors in

Today is a beautiful, blue sky day. And with such a beautiful day the cats are really paying attention to all that chirping going on inside the chicken house. Trashcan ( black cat) and Chit Chit ( gray tabby) acting nonchalant. I was mistaken about them wanting to get inside and help themselves to a chickie meal. Yeah, right boys, you were just hanging around to protect them!

So, since Little Inger, Bonnie and the chicks cannot come out of the hen house, I dig up some dirt and grass and brought the outside to them.

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One of the chickies trying a piece of grass for the first time. I am pretty sure he'che liked it.

Little Inger has done such a good job teaching the young ones to scratch and look for food.

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No other eggs have hatched this morning. Bonnie is still sitting on them, so will let Mother Nature take her course. Maybe tomorrow there will be another surprise.

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This n that

Lately I seem to have lost some of my sense of humor. Okay, a lot of my sense of humor. Before, not much would put me into a good, hardy laugh. You know the kind, the one with tears streaming down your face and your side hurting. See this ordinary looking hat? Well, somewhat ordinary looking. This hat had me laughing pretty darn good.

Until you press the botton under the bill and voila', there are two small lightbulbs that light up! Last night I had to see how much light there was to see by ,so off outside into the dark I went. My goodness there was a lot of light! Surprised the heck out of me. You should have seen the cats. They didn't know wether to run and hide or come investigate. As you can see in the picture Ozzy is investigating.

This morning there was another surprise ( sorry no pic of the new baby yet). Yup, another White Silky baby. To date there are three black ones and two White Silkies. Here are two of the older babies inder Little Inger keeping warm.

Every now and then my camera takes a really good pic. Just precious.

These are just two of the cats ( Miss Kitty on the left and Goat on the right) hanging around the coop fascinated by the new babies. Okay, let's call it what it is. They want to have a meal with those babies!

Maybe tomorrow there will be another surprise.

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Another Surprise

Look who was born this morning. The first White Silky baby! So small compared to the other three.

The first three chickies born are now venturing outside the hen house into the enclosed outside pen.

Little Inger has been teaching her kids all the tricks of the trade. They are growing so fast.

I was told that chicks raised by the mother grow faster.

Stay tuned. Maybe tomorrow there will be another surprise!

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Two day update

It's been a couple of days since I wrote. Sorry, no pics in today's blog. Camera is either being temperamental or I need to buy more batteries!

So far there are still only the three baby chicks. Bonnie is sitting on the rest of the eggs while Little Inger is teaching the young ones how to eat and scratch and do chicken things.

The other hens are rather upset now since the door to the pen is closed all the time. Which means I have to keep a real close eye on them and open the door for them to go in and lay their wonderful, yummy eggs. Then back out to open the door to let them back out.

This afternoon Little Inger took the babies out of the house and into the enclosed area. It was so cute to watch them scratch the whole time they were peeping and Little Inger talking to them.

But, as I feared, the outside cats have noticed the peeping! Mr. Worm has been hanging around the pen with 'that look' in his eye. Even though I have talked to him that the babies are not for him to eat, for some odd silly reason he ignores me. Hmmmm, go figure! So, without him knowing it is me doing it, rocks are tossed at him to scare him away. He runs off with a very confused look in his face. But sure enough later on there he is hanging around the pen again.

Rose ( our 12 year old Boxer) is not feeling well today. I have a suspicion she may have had another small stroke. I have been sitting with her the better part of today which seems to make her feel better. The way I figure it is, whatever I can't get to today, will be waiting for me tomorrow to get done.


Speaking of dogs, in previous posts I talked about our neighbors Little Dog who is over here all the time. Over the past several days I haven't seen him. Now this is ridiculous on my part since he isn't even our dog, but I got worried. I went out and looked in the ditches along the road, walked the back pasture, looked in the barn, but couldn't find him. Well, maybe the neighbors are just keeping him home now. Okay, that's fine. Earlier this afternoon when I went out to get the mail, who was standing by the front door?! Yup, Persistence aka Little Dog! Now I feel better knowing he is okay.

Hopefully tomorrow the camera will be working and will post pics of the babies.


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