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🤍|| A 501(c)3 Rescue & Sanctuary for Farmed Animals, Renegade Felines, & Wildlife located in Illinois 🐓 🐈‍⬛ 🌱
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✨ Meet Asteroid from Cicero ✨ A 4-week-old Pek ✨ Meet Asteroid from Cicero ✨
A 4-week-old Pekin duck who almost slipped through the cracks.

Bought as an Easter gift, likely for a child, then quickly discarded — Asteroid was left behind, dirty, hungry, and entirely alone.

But she didn’t disappear.
We rescued her.
Now safe in quarantine at our 501(c)3 sanctuary, she’s warm, fed, and slowly learning that she matters.

We named her Asteroid because she didn’t fall — she collided with a system that treated her like a novelty, and broke free.

🌀 She’s soft, vocal, determined — a cosmic force in a little feathered body.

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🦆 We’ve set up new quarantine housing, food, and supplies just for her — but she’ll need more.
👉 Vet care, long-term food, dipping pond, enrichment, and eventually another duck companion (because ducks are never meant to be alone).

💛 Donations help cover her immediate needs, care, and future.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit — all gifts are tax-deductible.

💸 Donate via Venmo or PayPal: @mysterymeadows

📍From Cicero to sanctuary.
Asteroid’s journey reminds us: no one is disposable.
Breakfast time with Penny, Lucy, Dilly, Trixie, an Breakfast time with Penny, Lucy, Dilly, Trixie, and August!

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Might just look like dirt today, but in 10 years, Might just look like dirt today, but in 10 years, the contents of these pots will produce 600 PawPaw fruit a year. Thanks to the good folks of @project.pawpaw for hosting the amazing fest where we picked up these seeds. 

#nativeplants #pawpaw #habitatrestoration #foodforest #homestead #fruittrees #plantingseason #foodsecurity #growityourself #nativegarden
Our first “big” snow for the season. 33* but f Our first “big” snow for the season. 33* but feels like 18* so both coops or chickens are having an indoor recess equipped with holiday Elf on the Shelf Movies. We are enjoying the brown hues of our native plants. The seeds provide food for winter birds during winter. ❄️ ⛄️ 🦃🪶
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Peekaboo! We’ve had such a busy summer that we h Peekaboo! We’ve had such a busy summer that we haven’t carved out any time for social media posts. Along with their chicken and kitty friends, Gracie and Reese are just starting to tuck their themselves in for the colder weather. Enjoying the last bits of run and catio time while we can! 🐔 🐈 🧣☃️ Thank you to our monthly (and one time!) donors who make help provide food, warmth, and support to Mystery Meadows rescues.
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🐈‍⬛❣️New kitten alert! ❣️🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛❣️New kitten alert! ❣️🐈‍⬛ Meet Chip! He’s a new little kitty who has been camping outside Mystery Meadows for the past week and hasn’t left our garden or sides ever since! Chip has an URI that is stuffing him up and suppressing his appetite. We brought him for a vet check and he has been prescribed antibiotics 2x daily. Our next steps will be basic preventatives/vaccines at a low cost clinic and scheduling a neuter surgery. Soon, Chip will be looking for a loving forever home! Pictures can be deceiving- he’s a tiny little 4 pound guy with a lot of long black fur and two different colored eyes! Please share or help us with today’s check up fee and future appts totaling over our goal of $250. As a non-profit, we solely survive on donations! Thank you and stay turned in for more updates.
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Mystery Meadows
  • About Us
  • Our Programs
    • Chicken Sanctuary
    • Haven for Renegade Cats
    • Oasis for Castaway Waterfowl
    • Habitat Restoration, Permaculture, and Gardening
    • Land Fund
  • Contact
  • Blog