The Funky Chicken Coop Tour Presents: Mad City Chickens

This event will be held at Callahan's General Store: 501 Bastrop Hwy, Austin, TX. 

Doors open at 6:30 PM. Kids 5 and under are admitted to the showing for free!

Brought to you by the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow Sponsored by Callahan's General Store!

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.

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.

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.