Chicken Day

This year’s Chicken Day has been postponed until Saturday 5th October 2024, so put the new date in your diary and get your entries ready for the big day. It will still have all the advertised competitions and activities.

We are going to have live Chickens in attendance again this year and there will be lots of other opportunities for crazy things to happen.

 

All chicken owners will need to be registered and adhere to APHA rules with regard to disease biosecurity and complete a declaration when entering their birds. Please email  elkcal@hotmail.co.uk if you need more information.

 

Elphin Chicken Day 2024 Competitions

Chickens
  • Most Handsome Cockerel
  • Prettiest Hen
  • Chicken that the Judge Most Wants to Take Home
Eggs 
  • Best matched ½ dozen – 6 eggs of uniform colour,  shape and size
  • Most different ½ dozen – 6 eggs showing the biggest range of colour, shape and size.

Chicken Race  

The highlight of the day.  This race is open to hens only, no cockerels .

Human Chicken Race

This “different” race will be open to anyone in costume who dares to enter. There will be a series of challenges that you will need to complete before being able to race to the finish line to claim victory.

Best Decorated Cage  

A cage which is the most imaginatively decorated.

Best Hand-Crafted Chicken

This may be anything from a paper mâché model, to a knitted chicken, to a Lego chicken, to a drawing of a chicken, to a wooden model, to a model made out of recycled materials.  In other words, whatever idea you can come up with.

Children’s Craft Competition 

“The Ideal Chicken House” in a shoebox.  Design and build a model of your perfect chicken accomodation.  It can be realistic or fantasy.

School’s Competition 

“My Favourite Chicken” collage. (A4 sized)  Get your primary school class to work on individual or class entries.  Great prizes for the best school and individual entrants.

Best Chicken Costume

All competitors must be wearing their costumes for the judging parade on the day.

Best Chicken Song Competition

This will be performed on the day by the entrant and will be their own original words.

Best Chicken Limerick

Think up a limerick that starts with “There once was a chicken ….” and recite it on the day and let the judge decide if yours is the best.

Best “Why did the Chicken Cross the Road” joke

This competition is for kids only and will of course be as funny as only kids can be.

Best Chicken Impersonation 

Competitors will be judged on their impersonation of a chicken which may be just the sound of a chicken or may be aided by the actions of the competitor while making the sounds.