Wild Chicken Festival

Fitzgerald, GA · Quirky

When: March 19–20, 2027
Where: Downtown Fitzgerald · Fitzgerald · GA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Fitzgerald's downtown streets close each March for a festival built around the town's free roaming Burmese chickens, descendants of birds the state stocked as game fowl in the 1960s. Now more than a decade running, the event features a hot wing eating contest, a petting zoo, and vendor booths along Main Street. Locals treat the wild chickens themselves as a point of civic pride.

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