Hey at least you have a hobby! Keep yourself active... can't hurt!!! Glad you enjoy it so much!!

lol Phil, well, I had said 9 babies was enough...  then went and bought 4 more...  lol  Yep, I tend to do things all or nothing quite a bit...  it could be worse, I could've bought out the cheap chicks from the store like my friend did  lol  My roommate would've flipped out, I think they had maybe close to 100 of those bantams there marked down  lol

We've gotta build a chicken coop soon...  and when we do, I'm going to see if we can put on a room in it that would be ok for babies...  so we can keep them out there rather than in this tiny room I've got them in in the house...  I gotta clean out that room tonight, rearrange it, how I have it now, I can't move the heat lamp away from the cages very well, I've got it raised as high as it'll go with how I've got it rigged...  and I need to be weaning the turkeys and guineas off of it, but the chicks need more heat since they're younger...  ah well, I'll figure it out...

Was up all night again...  fell asleep around 6, got up at 2...  now I gotta rush and get ready to head into town...

Oh god, they're addictive I guess...  lol  got home from my MRI tonight (I should have the results middle of next week) and my roommate and our friend had just gotten here...  our friend got me to go into town with her to get some feeders and larger waterers for her chicks...  they had pretty much all their poultry marked down...  so she pretty much bought them out again, and since she buys in large quantities they marked them down even more...

Well, they had polish crested chicks in there which I wanted *so* bad, they're adorable!  I figured I'd just get a couple of them, put them in with the chicks I got yesterday...  well, she got them to mark down all the ones in that stock tank if she bought them all, she wanted one kind that was in there...  I told her I'd steal a couple of the polish crested ones from her, well, she gave me all 18 of them!  lmao

So I have 32 babies total now...  lol  She said I can give some of them back to her if I want, but I dunno I'll probably keep them all.  Since I'm getting so many and she's been buying all this for me since she gets such good deals, I told her today when my check gets in the bank next month I'll pay her for it all, I'd already realized I'm gonna have to pitch in on the feed from now on.  Really, the chicks don't add up to all that much, but the turkeys had been $6 each, well, we only had to pay for 4 of mine.  So I need to pay her for those at least, the guineas were fairly cheap, and the chicks I got tonight were $1 each.  But then she's bought me 2 bags of starter feed, and a bag of bedding to use and feeders and waterers...  it adds up  lol

I'm going out to her house tomorrow, and she's got a rabbit cage I can bring home with me, once they're all in cages, I should be able to stack them up and make it work that way.

My roommate didn't mind the 4 chicks I bought last night...  but...  when he saw I came home with 18 more tonight...  um...  lol  He doesn't really mind all that much, but I think he thinks I'm about as crazy as our friend now  lol  He had told me before we went into town that we might get a few chicks from our friend because we needed more hens...  well...  we've got enough now  lol  Hopefully I didn't wind up with too many cockerels...  if I did we'll have to butcher some or give some back to our friend...

Obviously I won't be able to tame them all.  Going to focus on taming the guineas definitely, so they're less likely to run off when I put them outside, and going to work on the turkeys, and try to get at least a couple of the chicks pretty tame.

No, I'm not forgetting about my recovery in all this, been doing some reading at least and talking with other alcoholics.  Talked to my sponsor today, she told me to go ahead and read step 2 in the 12x12, then she'll have some various things I need to read also and we'll get together soon.  Wasn't getting to meetings all week because my back was so messed up after working around here last weekend...  and my sleep patterns have been so screwed up that I'm up all night a lot of nights then worn out the next day...  But got to one last night.  I'll try to get home tomorrow in time for the meeting I go to on Saturdays...  gotta go out to my friend's to take them stuff they need and pick up some things and get our laundry done.  Actually I think there might be a meeting where she lives tomorrow night, need to look that up.

Ok, enough rambling...  need to go dip my chicks' beaks in water to make sure they drink...  they're pretty young...  then get to reading in the 12x12.