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Featured Animals – Domestic Chicken

Discover “everything chicken” around the Zoo below; from news to adoptions, births, conservation programs, your own encounter options, animal experiences, shows, events and more.

Chicken Highlights

Chicken Feeding Experience

Daily, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(Weather permitting.)

Where My Big Backyard

Cost $1 per feeding

Join in on one of the hottest urban farming trends – raising chickens! Hand-feed some of the rarest and most exotic chicken varieties.

Chicken Happenings:

9:30 a.m.
Chicken Parade
My Big Backyard
Our chicken flock loves taking walks. Cheer on these awesome birds as they run out to their yard!

Daily

Everything Chicken

New to My Big Backyard: Adorable Chicks!

September 23, 2020

Did you know that September is National Chicken Month? Well, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has some very special honorees making their appearance just in time to celebrate! We are welcoming a new flock of little ladies to the chicken yard in My Big Backyard who will eventually be a part of the chicken feeding experience. The . . .

Checking in with the Chickens

September 26, 2019

Some people are surprised to learn that seventeen chickens live in Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s My Big Backyard, where guests can also meet rabbits, koi fish, amphibians, insects, our honeybee colony, tarantulas, and more. The chickens are each named after famous chefs or tasty spices and all have unique personalities to match. It’s not unusual to . . .

ZOOMobile Ambassadors

Bring the Animals to You.

These Animal Ambassadors may visit you when you book a custom animal experience with the ZOOMobile. Our EdVenture keepers bring live animals to engage your classrooms, birthdays, community gatherings, seniors, special events and more. The ZOOMobile visits groups throughout the Pikes Peak region and beyond.

Due to the nature of working with live animals, the ZOOMobile cannot guarantee which animals will be present for any program.

For ZOOMobile opportunities visit Bring the Zoo to You

My Big Backyard

Oversized Fun for Oversized Imaginations. Through hands-on experiences that bring you and your family up-close with some of its wild creatures, My Big Backyard is full of colossal surprises to spark kids’ imaginations about the great outdoors, creepy-crawly bugs, fantastic frogs and more!

Adopt an Animal

Foster any animal and you’ll help Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continue to provide outstanding care. Whether given as a gift or used to celebrate a favorite species, symbolic adoptions come with a variety of benefits only adoptive parents can enjoy. Ways to adopt your favorites: Digital Adoption – ($35) choose any Zoo animal from the full . . .

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