AVAILABLE NOW

aS OF 7/6/2025

EXTRA PLANTS: about 30 tomato plants, paste or slicing; about 10 sweet pepper plants; 5 eggplant plants, $1 each, come and get ‘em. Just waiting to be put in the ground and thrive!

MUSCOVY DUCKLINGS! Hatched in late June and July, 15 available. Most are black and white, a couple are all white, $14 each.

RAM LAMBS! 4 Katahdin ram lambs born in March. Two are white and two are black. This is a medium-sized breed and they have been raised on pasture. $3 per pound live at the farm. Expected weight is 40-50 pounds. Ask us about processing options.

STARTED CHICKS! These are from our own eggs and a mix of Blue Orpington, Ameracauna, Black Australorp, White Leghorn, and Rhode Island Red. Their parents and grandparents have survived the bitter cold and stifling heat of our local climate. $5 each.

FRESH NATURAL UNPROCESSED (RAW) GOAT MILK, $11 per quart with quart Mason canning jar exchange, $14.50 per quart with no jar exchange. Call for availability. Be sure to bring cooler and ICE to keep under 41F.

FRESH EGGS FROM TRULY FREE-RANGING HENS, $8.50 per dozen. They could also be incubated for chicks if the eggs are never refrigerated. Call ahead for availability.

RABBITS, 1 black weaned bunny, $20.

AFRICAN GEESE, 4 goslings, very personable, $25 each.

AMERICAN GUINEA HOGS:

2 gilts just turned a year, $3 per pound. Registration if desired, add $25. Breeding stock going out of state, add $35 for health certificate for first animal, $10 each additional.

2 barrows, just turned a year, $3 per pound sold live at the farm.

Baby pigs! born June 13, 2 boars and 3 gilts, $175 each at weaning. Available August 13, reserve now with $50 deposit. Health certificate if going out of state and registration extra. Parents are MP IGGY #9279 and JOY OF ILLINOIS HEDDII #10986. Parents are registered with American Guinea Hog Association.

SMALL SCALE HAYING EQUIPMENT, sold “as is, where is”

BCS Professional 850 walk-behind tractor with 14 HP V-twin Briggs and Stratton Vanguard Engine;

Caeb baler Mountainpress 550 made in 2003 with 2 brand new rolls of bale wrap always kept in house,

26” rototiller,

BCS 54” BF80/175 made in 2004, # 0128759 sickle bar mower.

All well used and in need of fixing or tweaking, not a beginner’s project. Make offer. We are upgrading to a small 4-wheel tractor, drum mower, and Ibex baler. We do not have a rake/tedder for sale.

MANURE for making compost, $2 per feed sack full. You dig it, choice of chicken, goat, sheep, pig. Where we have used plenty of this in our garden, the soil texture is fine and spongy and plants grow like crazy!

Please email (info@joyofillinois.com) or text (872-205-0801) ahead to make sure these are still available. Thanks!

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