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0:00:00 Hi there! This is John.
0:00:02 Last September we enjoyed a little holiday in Moonbi,
and we found the "Big Chook".
0:00:06 Fiberglas monument to Moonbi's poultry industry.
0:00:10 Australia is home to more than just a couple of big things.
0:00:13 The big country, it has been said, has a love of similarly-oversized objects.
0:00:17 The Big Chook, as this giant chicken is called, is only one of a loosely related set of about 150 sculptures and large structures sprinkled across the country.
0:00:26 Most of these, the Big Chook included, serve as some of the country’s top tourist traps and can be found along major roads and highways or between prominent travel destinations.
0:00:34 A Fibonaccierglas monument to the Moonbi Chicken, this enormous Chook is located in Moonbi, New South Wales, Australia.
0:00:40 A small village situated along the New England Highway, Moonbi is home to less than 400 people.
0:00:46 Still, it’s renowned as a center for the poultry industry because of its many large poultry farms and extensions of the industry that have set up shop within the city limits.
0:00:54 The traditional land of the Anaiwon Aboriginal people, Moonbi was settled in the 1850s when travelers passed through looking for new land on which their livestock could feed.
0:01:02 Over the next decade, a post office was established as well as a public school system, two inns, and a hotel; for a while, it looked like Moonbi would grow to be a thriving urban center in New South Wales.
0:01:12 But it didn’t - though it was never abandoned like so many towns with similar origin stories.
0:01:17 Instead, Moonbi carved out a space for itself as the poultry capital of this part of Australia.
0:01:22 In 2007, though, it became the center of attention when an equine influenza outbreak forced a lockdown at the Moonbi Recreation Ground and many horses were quarantined.
0:01:30 We really liked the "Big Chook"
and it is one of the better highlights of Moonbi.
0:01:34 Did you ever visit the Big Chook? Or do you plan to visit?
0:01:37 Feel free to check the link in the description below to book a tour or find the best accomodation in Moonbi.
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