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Film features a look at 'backyard chickendom'
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BLANCHARDVILLE - River Valley Trading Co. will be showing "Mad City Chickens", a film about people who keep chickens in the city, at 7 p.m. Saturday, at 204 S. Main St., Blanchardville. From leading experts to urban newbies, experience the humor and heart of what's fast becoming an international backyard chicken movement. The filmmakers, Tashai Lovington and Robert Lughai, will be at the screening. After the movie, stay for discussion.

Mad City Chickens is a sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken experts and authors to a rescued landfill hen or an inexperienced family that decides to take the poultry plunge and even a mad professor and giant hen taking to the streets - it's a humorous and heartfelt trip through the world of backyard chickendom.

Copies of the movie will be available for purchase. For more information, call (608) 523-1888. For more information about the movie see www.tarazod.com/filmsmadchicks.html.