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[NotAFarm]

Grazie Denise!! I'm looking forward to it!!


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Sycamore,

and to the Illinois Thread!

I hope I'll be seeing you at Denise's place on August 20th. We'll have some cake and talk chickens!

 

[Momagain1]

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We are 1/2 hr from spfld... hellooo!!

 

[Momagain1]

ok Miss Flock Mistress..are we doing the state fair meet up and didi we decide on a date for teh decatur park??

 

[EweSheep]

Talked to Sheila and we have not gotten around to getting the dates. Sheila, another BYCer friend and I have to sit down somewhere at a resturaunt and hammer out the details how we are going to have one at the Fairview Park. With school coming up, the heat and so forth, we probably won't have one this year but let us talk it out soon and see where we can come up with. We will put up the date, whether anyone would come or not come, it is entirely up to anyone that needs to attend. Springtime sounds like a good idea because we can swap eggs or possibly chicks but no started adults or young birds. We believe that the first meeting will be alot of face to face meeting, getting an idea how we can pull this off for the following meets, etc. There is alot more going on than we realized in planning the first event.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Flock Mistress - don't forget to ask everyone you have ever done business with, and everyone you have ever thought of doing business with for a donation. They will more likely be agreeable if you don't specify anything and let them decide what it is that they can afford to offer, and assure them that there will be not charge for entrance to the event and it will not be raffled off for profit.

I'm building up a door prise - possibly 2 for our meet-up in Joliet on the Aug 20th date. I have decided that all chicken people will get a chance to throw their name in a hat for free (myself included). This will be for chicken people only as they gifts are specifically designed around us and would be lost on our non-chicken raising friends.
If I can get together 2 prises, the most valuable will be first and the next will be second. Perhaps there will be more.
I have commintments for "something" from Myself, BYC , Smith Poultry and FarmTek so far.

Of course the somethings are almost as mush a mystery to me as they are to you at this point. Sorta like hatching huh?

If you have anything you would like to add to the raffle - perhaps a handmade somehting or the other, small little thing, we can add it when you get here. No pressure -if you don't then you don't.

I have feelers out to Purina Mills, The major Hatcheries and other suppliers - especially those who advertise on BYC and some that do not. All items are fowl related in one way or another.

They will not be big prise money valuable gifts as every one including business, are suffering in this economy. I am grateful to the people who can offer pens and notepads emblazoned with their logo.

There will be a donation box available for you to put in some spare change for the Will County Humane Society - a non profit, no kill shelter. This is what I ask of you. The society was started by my late mother-in-law when she would go to the pounds and collect the animals "on their last day" and take them into her home and find good loving homes for them. She failed non of them. She started in the early sixities and continued until the day she died. She rescued wildlife and pet life of all shapes and sizes. Once she rescued a male african lion so decrepid that it had no mane and was hundreds of pounds underweight. She was amazing.

Just gave my loudest and earliest morning Rooster away to a good home. He'll be waking up his new momma (Ravie) in southern Indianna (too far for us to hear) and for those of us who will be staying the night on Saturday - we can sleep in! Coffee will be brewing in the house with breakfast when you get up. Just walk on in and follow your nose the the kitchen.

The guest room is still not spoken for. It is available first for anyone who needs it , and then for anyone who wants it. If you are a "want", please be ready if the situation arises, that I may be asked by some one who "needs" and ask you to bow out. If there is anyone who wants to come but needs this room to be able to come and stay, please let me know ASAP.

It's only a 2 bedroom home. Large, but stilll 2 bedroom. We have an area, if you have an air matress for "indoor camping".

Denise
Paradise Found

 

[StevenW.]

Hows everyone likein the heat? I for one would like the snow back..

 

[StevenW.]

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My sister has a house close to that park.. I'm pretty sure. They do have a big fenced in area in the backyard but they have their German Shephards back there..

(I could ask them if we could use that area but I'm not quite sure what they would say..
They live on N Moffet Lane.

Just an Idea.

 

[cline93]

Central Illinois here

 

[StevenW.]

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[mfuqua]

I am in South Holland, IL, a south suburb of Chicago.I only have a few bantam girls and my boy, Lou.