Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2024 Cackle Hatchery Annual Chicken Festival! We hope to see you in 2025! If you’ve never been to the Cackle Hatchery Annual Chicken Festival, it’s a free, family-friendly event that we’ve been putting on for more than a decade now. And we always make sure there’s a little something for everyone. Perhaps you want to try some family activities like our hatchery tours, crowing contest, duck races, horse-drawn rides, costume contest, and poultry showcase. If you like what you see, you can even take an animal home with you through our grown fowl silent auction. We’ll also have vendors on site. You’ll find all this and more at the Annual Chicken Festival at Cackle Hatchery!
Pictures of Past Festivals
Videos of Past Festivals
If you’re travelling to Lebanon, MO for this event, the Annual Chicken Festival is just one of many exciting activities happening within a four-block area of downtown that weekend. Here’s a sampling of what else you can expect in the area from 2024:
October 4th:
- 9AM-6PM Cackle Hatchery’s Annual Chicken Festival
- 11AM-11PM Boat Town Brewing Oktoberfest
- 8PM-10PM Dawson Hollow Concert – Free – Outdoor at 113 N Madison Ave.
- 5PM – 10PM Downtown Lebanon First Friday
October 5th:
- 9AM-6PM Cackle Hatchery’s Annual Chicken Festival
- 10AM-4PM Crossroads of the Ozarks Fall Event – Over 30 Venders
- 11AM-11PM- Boat Town Brewing Oktoberfest
- 7PM-9PM Boat Town Brewin – Live Music with Adam McCabe
And if you’re looking to make the Annual Chicken Festival part of a larger trip, here are a few other notable destinations close by:
Destinations that are Close to Lebanon:
- Lake of the Ozarks (36 miles away)
- Bennett Spring State Park (14 miles away)
- Branson (90 miles away)
Purpose of the Cackle Hatchery Annual Chicken Festival: It is a celebration of seasonal ending of Chick Season at Cackle Hatchery. To promote a free event for the community of fun activities surrounded by the theme of poultry and education.
Sponsorships:
Flag ship sponsor Cackle Hatchery (Event)
MFA Lebanon MO (Straw and Pen)
The Healing Garden (Corn Stalks)
Keith and Tawny Dotson (Ranger UTV for Mini Hayride)
Bruce Fulkerson Excavating (Hay Bale Chicken)
First United Methodist Church (Pumpkins)
Kalmbach (Feed)
Noble Hudsons & Sons (Partner)
Omlet (Chicken Coops)
Purina (Partner)
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