CHICKENSTOCK 2008

[eggcetra_farms]

Ok everyone! The president of the APA emailed me back. Here's what he said:

Jessica,



Sounds interesting. Where are you located and/or where (geographically) were you thinking of holding such an event?



Dave Anderson

APA President

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Now, it's not like he promised support or anything BUT he is interested and emailed me back pretty quickly. I know the APA has been trying to boost membership, so maybe this could be a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" sort of deal. I just emailed him with more details. I'll let you know what he says as soon as he emails me back.

 

[eggcetra_farms]

Nifty,

You're right about that. I'm going to see what Mr. Anderson suggests and then throw it out here for everyone. Do you think you'd be coming?

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

For fun I ran a report of where most of the visits to the forum come from over the past 3 months. Not a hard science, but interesting for sure:


Darker = more visits

For reference:


California 19%
Texas 15%
Florida 8%

 

[eggcetra_farms]

Interesting.... So would that be the darker the state, the more members? If so, it appears California is the darkest, with Texas running second.

Nifty, do you have actual numbers or just the country graph?

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Darker is more visits... which isn't super reliable because one member in CA could visit 100 times in 3 months or 50 members could visit 2 times in Texas and it would look the same.

The only way to get members in each state is if the members post their location in the "From" section of their profiles.

 

[eggcetra_farms]

Darn! Oh well, that's kind of why I figured we should "centralize" this thing. At least then it'll be in the middle.............

I'm still waiting on Mr. Anderson's return email. It seemed like he emailed me in about an hour last time. Pretty quick.

 

[BeckyLa]

And then there's the Louisiana Chicken Festival at the end of September.......everything chicken.......might think about it though Dubach is not a major burg, it's about half an hour or so from Bossier City which is just east of Shreveport in the northern part of the state. It's just minutes away from Ruston which is a major university town with hotels and stuff.

 

[2mnypets]

This is sounding really great guys. I know some of the distributors for ProPac, Purina etc. I'll put my feelers out on how to go about finding about about some of the bigger fish in this ocean of ours. I'll start some emailing myself this morning. Yesterday was very busy with my birthday and my MIL's birthday. I'll keep everyone updated. We should start trying to find a date....maybe the end of July or beginning of August since that seems to be when most fairs are going on. Also Nifty is right about thinking about a major hub or airport for transportation. I'll peek back in this thread as I get information.

 

[wegotchickens]

Another good thing about hosting it at a fair is that they're already prepared for critters to be present. I'd wondered what kind of venue would permit bunches of chickens

 

[Buckguy20]

If you link it to a Poultry Show it will have to be in the fall because I don't think they have very many shows set for the summer due to the heat.