NEW THINGS COMING !!

Barn Tours has been around for about 20 years and I have owned it the last 4.5 years.  I love my job and the people I get to meet because of my job. In the last 4.5 years Barn Tours has started to branch out to try new things and create new programs for the business.  I have tried to revamp the company so that it follows my goals and ideas on where I think Barn Tours should be going. So I have been very busy racking my brain along with others to figure out how to just do that while still keeping with the original ideas of why Barn Tours was founded.

I'm not quite ready to let the cat out of the bag and tell what is exactly going on. But know it is big and exciting and its killing me that I can not share it with you yet. Those who know Barn Tours and have worked with us I hope you welcome and love the new changes we are gonna make and those who have yet to experience us I hope they love what we are doing and want to jump on the band wagon. So stay tuned and look out for the 'New & Improved" version of Barn Tours to debuting soon.

September is Chicken month!!!

Since September is Chicken month I thought I would share some of my favorite chicken fun facts!!! Please feel free to add your favorite chicken fun facts!!!

*Americans eat 8 billion chcickens a year

* most yolks found in a egg was 9

* longest flight recorded of a chicken is 301.5 feet

*Chickens are omnivores

* There are more chickens on earth than humans

* Chickens can run up to 9 miles per hour

* Red earlobed chickens lay brown eggs, White earlobed chickens lay white eggs

* An egg as over 8,000 pores on it

* It takes an average 24-26 hours for a hen to lay an egg

Cow Palace's Ag Day

We are so excited to be apart of the Grand Nationals at Cow Palace this October. On Thursday October 21 we will be apart of their Ag Day for schools. We are super excited about it. After the great experience in the spring with Junior Grand Nationals we can't wait for the response to the fall Ag day.

Thanks to Ag in the Classroom, publishing a nice little blurb about Grand Nationals and our involvement. We were so excited to see it, cause we had no idea that it was coming out in the newletter. Below is the is link to the newsletter. And if you haven't signed up to recieve it yet you should, its a great newsletter from a great organization. http://www.learnaboutag.org/

New Interactive games!!!

Well its offical we added more to our Barn Tours line up. We now have interactive games which can be played between tour times. The games challenge your knowledge of agriculture and allows you to earn really cool prizes from the Tour Guide. We have Corn Hole and Plinko. The games were a big hit this summer at the Alameda County Fair. We had people of all ages coming to play the games and earn a prize or two.

We decided to add more to Barn Tours because we are ever changing but also because we want to be more interactive with the public and get the fun information on agriculture out there. We love interacting with the public and passing our love for agriculture on.

For more information check out our website at www.barntours.net

Barn Tours on "The View of the Bay"

Thanks to Alameda County Fair once again we were on "The View of the Bay" with April the marketing director. Our adventure began way before the camera rolled that's for sure. It all started backstage rehearsals. And its a good thing April has experience with babies and me with livestock. We had a piglet who liked to poop on us as well as a goat kid who had a nervous stomach. But once we got all the animals to cooperate we had a fabulous time on air. But note to self eat lunch before we go. No time to eat while at the TV station and no where to stop to eat afterwards. Traffic was horrible but I think we made people's day has we drove by and I was holding a piglet in the front seat. Thanks again to the Alameda County Fair and April for letting me be apart of the show and the experience!

Here is the link to the segment:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/channel?section=view_from_the_bay&id=5755208

Farm Planet banner discount

Now offering a 10% discount on our Farm Planet Banners as long as you mention the keyword (FINK). Discount is good on rentals or purchase. Act soon Discount only lasts until May 15th.


Visit our Farm Planet website at www.farmplanet.org and check out all nine banners!

They make great additions to the livestock barns and educational areas.

Chowchilla Madera County fair is just around the bend.

Its that time again and we are hitting the road. We are making the long haul to Chowchilla to enjoy the Chowchilla-Madera County fair. The fair starts May 13 and runs until the 16th. It is a new fair for us and we couldn't be more excited! The fair is pretty close to us as well. It is less than 2 hours from our house which is nice. I can't wait to meet the fair goers and staff. And of course walk the barns and teach people one thing new about agriculture.
We will of course be posting twitters and facebook posting for our adventures so don't forget to keep a look out for those.