Chicken Co-op Information

If you are not in the chicken co-op, but would like to be, speak to Corinne Schulzke. (You may have to go on a stand-by list until there are enough slots) Also, if you would just like to be added to the list so that if someone doesn't want their chicken that time, they can let you have it, please contact Corinne. Here is the list of teams and the dates:

Date	Team	Members
Nov. 19	Team 5	K. Williams; Walker; R. Fisher; Karski
Jan. 7, 2010	Team 6	Meinke; Pedersen; Flannagan; D. Fischer
Feb. 25	Team 7	A. Allen; Bobo; Huffman; Brown
Apr. 8	Team 1	Campbell; Bauer; Mitchell
May 20	Team 2	Jerls; Owens; Hardman; Eide
Jul 1	Team 3	C. Hall; V. Hall; S. Allen;
Aug 12	Team 4	Bergman; Ashment; Revill; Wilhelm

Chicken Co-op Guidelines

1. Everyone participating will take a turn to go, schedule your own alternate if necessary.

2. Driving team must also stay for the half-hour distribution.

3. When you pick up your chicken, bring $14 for the next trip.

4. All chicken should be picked up within an hour of being called, during the half-hour window provided. It cannot be kept frozen. Chicken should be available for pick-up before noon.*

5. Each participant will get one 5 pound bag of boneless breast and one 5 pound bag of tenderloins. If there is a shortage of product on the day of pick-up, the team going to the plant decides what to get.

6. Please put receipt and change in the envelope/folder to allow us to keep track of costs. Prices fluctuate.

7. Once the cash surplus is sufficient, it will be divided (refunded) among the participants.

8. The store only accepts cash and does not give pricing or product availability over the phone. (See attached hours of operation.)

* If chicken is not picked up, and I can’t easily find someone to buy it, it will be donated to a charity.

Also, to clarify because the chicken comes in cases of 4, if one person does a “no show”, it jeopardizes the ability of three other families to get chicken. Remember:

A) if you are unable to get your chicken, you MUST find a replacement that YOU are responsible for (and let me know who that is)

B) if you don't find a replacement more than twice, you will be dropped from the co-op.

C) If you are buying someone else’s chicken YOU are responsible for making sure that you get the right amount of chicken.

If you have not yet taken a turn to drive or make calls, it’s time to step and either be a group leader or make sure that your team KNOWS that you will make the phone calls to let people know when the chicken arrives. I’ve tried to match the teams so that people who can’t drive can help in one of those two ways. Group leader “work” takes place ENTIRELY in hours that are “convenient” to working schedules—making phone calls and emails to collect uncollected money. A final way to contribute is to buy gas for whomever on your team drives.

There are currently 32 slots in the co-op, so the purchase should be 8 cases breasts and 8 cases tenderloins. This might require two people to split the purchase (4 sets each).

Driving Day Instructions:

If there is a price increase, you need to be prepared to cover. (An extra $36 should handle it.) This hasn’t happened yet, but could.

• Leave between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
• Count the cash in the envelope and make a note of it at the top of the column.
• If there is a shortage of chicken, you must make the decision of what, if anything to substitute.
• When you are within a half hour of the pick-up place, call the list to let them know to come get chicken. Please call the bold numbers whenever there is a choice between numbers.
• Stay half an hour to distribute the chicken—keeping careful records of who pays how much and who picks up their chicken.
• Leave any extra chicken in a box on the front porch.

You should be finished with the whole thing around 11 a.m.—give or take a little.

Directions to Tyson Poultry Plant Store:

Take 575 North to Exit 19, it is Hwy 20 EAST to Cumming. Turn left at the end of the exit. (Exit 16 is Hwy 20 West—don’t take it.)

Stay on Hwy 20 through Lathemtown and Free Home communities. You will come to a small town square with a light, but just before getting to it, you will see on your right the Tyson factory.

At the light, turn RIGHT on Castleberry Road. The second driveway turns into the plant, go to the low brown building and park where indicated.

Directions to Tyson Poultry Plant Store via GA 400:

Take GA 400 North

Exit 15, Bald Ridge Marina Road

Turn Left

4th light, turn LEFT onto Tribble Gap Road

Go through one more light, second drive on the fight is the plant. There is a small black Tyson sign.