Pulletpalooza: A Great Place to Meet Chicks!

The 3rd Annual Brazos Valley Pulletpalooza has been scheduled for Sunday, November 18th, 2012, and we couldn’t be more excited.  Four families have already confirmed to be on the tour, and we are expecting numerous others to confirm before too terribly long.  Counting the six families from last year’s tour, and the several interested parties we have spoken with over the last few months, we could easily be in double-digits this year.  We also expect one local business for sure to sponsor the tour, and will be angling to get several others on board.

We are expanding our marketing efforts this year, too.  T-shirts, bumperstickers, the whole ball of wax.  We’ll advertise on local radio, television and print media, too.  We have gone from an exceptionally modest tour a couple of years ago to a legitimate Brazos Valley happening.

This year, we have moved the date from early December to the middle of November for a couple of reasons – first and foremost, it seemed that no matter how hard we tried to avoid it, we seemed in previous years to unavoidably run into scheduling conflicts with Christmas festivities, and this simply will not do.  Second, we would like to have this event occur when many of the coops on our tour will also be able to feature elements of the fall garden to help demonstrate how seamlessly chickens fit into the typical homescape.  If any frost hits local pumpkins, it likely won’t happen before we get a chance to show off our hens.

If you have a chicken coop and would like to participate in the tour this year, please email us at motheromercy@yahoo.com.  A few things to keep in mind:

• The City of College Station will be invited to participate this year.  We are asking the friendly animal control officer who inspects Big Myrtle’s coop every year to drop by and chat with our visitors about responsible bird ownership in the city.  This means if you have an unregistered coop in College Station, you might not want to be on the tour.  Bryan is lucky – y’all don’t have nearly as stringent  a set of rules as we do in College Station.
• Families last year reported that anywhere from just a handful of visitors at some coops to well over fifty people at others stopped by; please make sure you are prepared to deal with lots of folk traipsing through.
• There is no set “program”; some of us hand out fliers with lots of information, others have colorfully decorated coops, others offer treats, and some just show their birds.  Whatever you are comfortable in doing, we are thrilled to have you do.  We’ll want a register of who came by, but otherwise, there’s not much work required.
• We have a pretty good showing from numerous Bryan families, a family in Kurten, and two coops in College Station.  We would love to get more College Station coops on the tour, and also we’d like to hear from folk in the surrounding communities.  Summerville?  Carlos?  North Zulch?  C’mon, we know some of y’all have chickens!

More information, particularly about possible sponsor discounts and planned Pulletpalooza merchandise/advertising gimmicks will be forthcoming.

3rd Annual Brazos Valley Pulletpalooza:  A Great Place to Meet Chicks!