NE Oklahoma Chicken Stock - Let's Plan!

Okay, Okies!

Let's plan a big chicken get-together and meet in NE Oklahoma.

1.  Location:  Muskogee Fairgrounds Swine Building.  Lots of parking.  Restrooms available.  E-mail Coral at WaddleBockFarm@gmail.com to reserve a space to set up cages.

2.  Date: June 16, 2012.  Sellers may set up any time after 6:00 a.m.  Buyers welcome at 8:00 a.m. 

3.  Food: A Girl Scout Troop from NE Oklahoma will run our concession stand.  They'll have hot dogs, canned pop, chips, and other items for sale.

4.  Raffle - Contact Poco if you have an item for the raffle to support this event!  We're going to pay for the building rental and security personnel through our raffle.

5.  Pay the Seller Poultry Sale begins at 12:00 noon.  Check in birds at 11:00.  Bring cash and cages. 
Cages DO NOT sell with birds. 

6.  Birds only.  No four-legged animals at this event, please.

7.  Sellers can set up in the barn any time after 6:00 a.m.  

     Buyers - the barn is officially open at 8:00 a.m.

CLICK THE MAP TO SEE AN ENLARGED VERSION.

 

 As of 06/09/12.

Please send me a PM or an e-mail if you have something you'd like to put in the raffle to help support this event.  The raffle will pay for the rental of the building and for our security officers.  Below is a list of items pledged for the raffle.  The list will be updated as pledges are made.  Thank you, in advance, for helping  make our event a success!

Raffle Items So Far:

1. Chicken-in-a-Basket Gift Basket: Poultry related items in a nice basket
2. Chicken Doll: Ceramic head with a soft body
3. Baby Piggy Doll: Ceramic head with soft body
4. Wire Egg Basket & Bottle of Egg Washing Soap
5. Handmade Quilt
6.  3, 1 pint jars of pickled quail eggs, 3 different flavors.
7. Five beautiful bantam roosters: Sultan, Frizzles, and Silkie - Each will be in a take-with-you cage.
8. Book: Pocket Full of Poultry
9. Notecards: Poultry theme of my (artsyrobin) art
10. An assortment of pretty soaps with pretty smells. 
11. Denim hen that lays a plastic egg with a baby denim chick inside.  See page 45 for photo.
12. Homemade chicken print throw pillows and homemade chicken print kitchen curtains. 

Birds you plan to bring and things you are looking for link:

http://kwiksurveys.com?u=NEOCSbirdlist

N.E.O.C.S.  T-Shirt Pre-Orders

T-Shirt pre-ordering is now closed (6/9/12)  Check in space #133 if you wanted a shirt but didn't order one.  There may be a few extra shirts for sale.  Thank you : )

1.  Artsyrobin Red background no peace signs XL
2. Artsyrobin  Black background no peace signs XXL
3. Poco Pollo Black background with peace signs XL
4. Poco Pollo Red background with peace signs XL
5. Poco Pollo Black background with peace signs Small
6. Elwood Lightfoot Red background with peace signs 4XL
7. Elwood Lightfoot Black background with peace signs 4XL
8. Greybear23 Red background no peace signs Large
9. Greybear23 Black background no peace signs 4XL
10.   MacGuyver Red background with peace signs 4XL
11.   Prettychicks Red background no peace signs Medium
12.   sixshooter60 Black background no peace signs Medium
13.   Ladyokie Black background with peace signs XXLarge
14.   Prettychicks Red background no peace signs Medium
15.   lynnae1 Red background with peace signs  Large
16. chickencoach 1 Black background with peace signs Large
17. chicken coach 1 Red background no peace signs Large
18. banjoejoe4783 2 Black background with peace signs Large
19. upcdayz Black background with peace signs XLarge
20. upcdayz Red background with peace signs XLarge
21. upcdayz Black background with peace signs Large

22. cathiesue  Black background with peace signs Medium

I put notes in brackets for May and June - cooler temps. 

I forgot to add that we should come up with a name for this chicken stock.  DD suggested O. C. D. = Oklahoma Chicken Do.    Another suggestion was NEOCS (North Eastern Oklahoma Chicken Stock).  For anyone on the planning committee for POOPS, please let me know dates so that this get-together will not be on a conflicting weekend.  This is not POOPS.  It's a NE Oklahoma Chicken Stock.  I'm volunteering to arrange the place and do a lot of the planning, and I'm offering our home as one possible location. 

Plans will be posted on this thread, so make your suggestions as they come to you.

Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.  June 2nd would be the first Saturday after Memorial Day.  If anyone knows about event dates that we should avoid, please let me know.  Is this a Saturday to consider? or is it too close to Memorial Day?

Good point about bringing food.  I know it's hard to transport big cookers and large containers.  Folks traveling over 30 minutes to get to the chicken stock might bring paper products, plastic cutlery, or canned/bottled drinks: things that don't need to be hot or cold until later.  If our location is the fair grounds, we can set up a microwave to make things hot.  We'd be limited to cold items and things like hot dogs.

If our location is Waddle Bock Farm, then we've got the kitchen, a fire pit, and we can set up grills.  Plus, there are a couple of electrical outlets on the front porch we can use to power crock pots if we want to set the food on tables on the front porch.