On Sunday 28 July, we are hosting a party. It’s being organized around the INDIANA BYC’ers thread on this site. But it’s open to any crazy chicken folk that would like to attend. If you are able to make it to the central Indiana area, you are welcome. And if you didn’t already know about it, check out the INDIANA BYC'ers HERE! Thread. It’s VERY active, and a wonderful source of information and community.
We'd like to invite anyone from the forum here that would like to come and meet other people as crazy about chickens as we are.
Here are some details and Ideas.
The social party is from 3 to whenever. Bring a lawn chair and a snack to share. Drinks will be provided. The DSO loves to cook, so there will be some fun things to eat too. There will be a tour of our coop and run setup and a meet and greet with our chickens and turkeys. We call it a meeting, but it really is just a chance to socialize with other chicken folk.
One of the things that we are doing is a workshop on processing poultry. I am blessed/cursed with an overabundance of boys at the current time. So I would like to propose that anyone interested in this portion of chickendom can show up around 11, and we can put on the workshop then. If you have a bird that needs to have that 'One Bad Day', go ahead and bring it. I have a couple of roos for demo purposes and will probably have more than that if one or two people want to try their hand at it. Several other people are bringing birds including at least one Turkey. For those that are not interested in this, we promise to be done and all cleaned up before 3.
Another idea is that if you know someone else who is coming and would like to arrange to swap/sell/transfer birds, that is fine by me. I have a large garage that has never seen my chickens, so I can offer it up as a place to keep birds being swapped so that they can be out of the sun and not kept in a car. Please make your arrangements ahead of time, and only bring birds that are already spoken for.
Our farm is located just east of Mooresville, IN. Which is located just SW of Indy not too far from the airport.
I'm just paranoid enough about things to not want to post my address and phone number on the forum where it is available to anyone and everyone, so what I would like to propose is that if you are interested in coming, please send me a PM, and I'll put together an email to send out to the participants with all the pertinent details.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, send me a note.
Hope you can make it!
Racinchickins
