Join the fun on April 7th, 2012 at the 4th Annual Austin Funky Coop Tour !
What's all the cluck about? Curious about the latest and greatest coop scoop? Look no further, you have found THE place for all the information you'll need to attend (drum roll please) The 4th Annual Austin Funky Chicken Coop Tour!
Share in the chicken eggcitment that is sweeping the nation!
Share in the chicken eggcitment that is sweeping the nation!
2011 Coop Tour Pics
Austin's city chickens (and their owners) are anxious to strut their stuff! So mark your calendar!!
Date: April 7th, 2012
Time: 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. **rain or shine**
Location: Coops in the Austin City Limits - Purchased maps will show coop locations.
Price: Maps will be available for $10 on Tour Day from Buck Moore Feed and Supply on N. Lamar. Stay tuned for potential additional ticket/map sale locations. As many people as you'd like can share a map.
Purpose: Coop Design Ideas, Promote Sustainability, Community Fellowship, and Funky Fun!
Purpose: Coop Design Ideas, Promote Sustainability, Community Fellowship, and Funky Fun!
Factoid: Austin has a strong growing community of chicken lovers and boasts the 2nd largest Backyard Poultry Meetup in the world!
Factoid: The number of coop tours since 2002 to today has increased by nearly 500%
Factoid: Backyardchickens.com, the world's largest online community for chicken supporters, exceeded 100,000 members in the summer of 2011, doubling its membership from the previous year.
Are you interested in raising chickens? Do you need coop design ideas? Do you enjoy talkin' chicken w/folks? Do you want to show your kiddo's where eggs actually come from? Do you own chickens now and need a few new ideas to spruce up their coop?
If you've answered yes to any of the above questions, Austin's Funky Coop Tour is for you!
Volunteer Opportunities
2012 Volunteer Application
Help Us Spread the Word!
Please help the Funky Chicken Coop Tour® by printing out the attached flyers. Ask your local businesses to place a flyer in their storefront. Pin them on bulletin boards. Insert them in your neighborhood newsletters or anywhere else your heart desires. Pass em' out and hang em' high!
4th Annual Coop Tour Flyer
4th Annual Coop Tour Flyer with Tear Offs
Interested in Becoming a Tour Sponsor?
If you own or work for a business that would like to sponsor the 2012 tour, have we got a deal! We've wrapped up all the information in a pretty package that will give the full details on how your business can benefit! Please check out the links. We appreciate your consideration!
Sponsor Benefits
Sponsor Agreement (application) in MS Word
Full Sponsor Kit (PDF)
Funky Chicken Coop Tour ® is proud to be an event of the Urban Poultry Association of Texas Inc. TM,, a newly formed nonprofit (currently filing for 501c3 status). We look forward to furthering the advancement of local sustainability with an emphasis on backyard poultry through just and like-minded causes.
Join the Austin Backyard Poultry Meetup Group.
Are you interested in starting your own coop tour? Follow our 12-step tour tips or learn How to Expand a Coop Tour.
Ready to become an egghead? Guide to Raising Chicks
***Learn more on our Coop Entry Page***
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."Frank Lloyd Wright
Factoid: The number of coop tours since 2002 to today has increased by nearly 500%
Factoid: Backyardchickens.com, the world's largest online community for chicken supporters, exceeded 100,000 members in the summer of 2011, doubling its membership from the previous year.
Are you interested in raising chickens? Do you need coop design ideas? Do you enjoy talkin' chicken w/folks? Do you want to show your kiddo's where eggs actually come from? Do you own chickens now and need a few new ideas to spruce up their coop?
If you've answered yes to any of the above questions, Austin's Funky Coop Tour is for you!
Volunteer Opportunities
- Do you own chickens but are not interested in having your coop on the tour?
- Do you like chickens and want to spend some time with others of a similar interest?
- Do you want to help spread the word about the benefits and joys of raising chickens?
2012 Volunteer Application
Please help the Funky Chicken Coop Tour® by printing out the attached flyers. Ask your local businesses to place a flyer in their storefront. Pin them on bulletin boards. Insert them in your neighborhood newsletters or anywhere else your heart desires. Pass em' out and hang em' high!
4th Annual Coop Tour Flyer
4th Annual Coop Tour Flyer with Tear Offs
Interested in Becoming a Tour Sponsor?
If you own or work for a business that would like to sponsor the 2012 tour, have we got a deal! We've wrapped up all the information in a pretty package that will give the full details on how your business can benefit! Please check out the links. We appreciate your consideration!
Sponsor Benefits
Sponsor Agreement (application) in MS Word
Full Sponsor Kit (PDF)
Funky Chicken Coop Tour ® is proud to be an event of the Urban Poultry Association of Texas Inc. TM,, a newly formed nonprofit (currently filing for 501c3 status). We look forward to furthering the advancement of local sustainability with an emphasis on backyard poultry through just and like-minded causes.
Join the Austin Backyard Poultry Meetup Group.
Are you interested in starting your own coop tour? Follow our 12-step tour tips or learn How to Expand a Coop Tour.
Ready to become an egghead? Guide to Raising Chicks
***Learn more on our Coop Entry Page***
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."Frank Lloyd Wright
March 4, 2012 | |
Movie Night!
The Funky Chicken Coop Tour Presents:
Mad City Chickens
March 3, 2012, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Brought to you by the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow
Sponsored by Callahan's General Store!
Online movie ticket purchasers will be registered for a door prize drawing!
Come join us for this family-friendly event to kick off the countdown to the 4th Annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour on April 7, 2012. Event will be held at Callahan's General Store off 183. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Movie begins at 7:00 p.m.
ABOUT THE MOVIE...
Mad City Chickens is a film about people who keep chickens in the city.
Witness if you will Gallus Domesticus…the backyard chicken. A mere few pounds of feather, bone, and muscle; a creature regarded by many as a rather humorous, though not so intelligent agent of food production.
And yet make note of a most singular phenomenon now taking shape across suburb and city. From backyard eggs to the family’s new favorite pet, the urban chicken is forging a fresh place in the pecking order of human importance.
Mad City Chickens deftly weaves multiple stories and contextual issues on city chickens and their keepers in a non-linear fashion that one rarely sees in a documentary. From leading experts to urban newbies, experience the humor and heart of what’s fast becoming an international backyard chicken movement.
Highlights include:
~Mother Earth News Editor-in-Chief, Cheryl Long
~Leading bird flu expert, Dr. Michael Greger
~Rare behind-the-scenes at Murray McMurray Hatchery
~Backyard Poultry editor, Elaine Belanger
~Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities, Christine Heinrichs
~Stunning results from nutritional study on pastured eggs
~Follow an urban family for an entire year as they take the poultry plunge
~A factory farm hen that refused to die even after being gassed and dumped at a
landfill
PLUS…coops, birds, eggs, art, images from the Seattle Tilth group, founding members of the Mad City Chickens group, a California musical hen, a Texas life-saving flock…and yes…even a mad professor and a giant chicken find their way into the mix.
Come join pre-tour fun Saturday, March 3, 2012, doors open at 6:30 PM at
Callahan’s General Store
501 Bastrop Hwy, Austin, TX
 | More chicken festivities will be happening prior to the movie. The Sustain Center, located next door to Callahan's, is holding a Spring Chicken Festival* with vendors, food, seminars, kids activities and more. Find out more on The Sustain Center Website. * This is a separate and unaffiliated event from the Funky Chicken Coop Tour Movie Night Kick-off. |
ABOUT THE FUNKY CHICKEN COOP TOUR
The Funky Chicken Coop Tour®, founded in 2009, is an annual self
guided tour held each spring in Austin, Texas, by the nonprofit
organization the Urban Poultry Association of Texas, Inc. The purpose
of this tour is to encourage city residents to raise chickens at home
by demonstrating the many ways that chicken (and other poultry)
housing can be incorporated into urban residence without violating
city ordinances or creating a nuisance. Many tour hosts demonstrate
how to incorporate chickens and their manure into a household
gardening and composting regimen that results in inexpensive, healthy
and sustainable food, even in relatively small spaces.
Austin's fourth annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour will take place on
April 7th, 2012, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., rain or shine. Learn more at:
March 3, 2012 | |
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