Today's poultry industry in Alabama is worth billions and the largest agricultural enterprise in the state. The trade group is the Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, once known as simply the Alabama Poultry Association. For some years the group ran a contest to crown a queen.
In recent explorations at the Alabama Mosaic site, I found the photograph below of the unnamed Alabama Poultry Queen for 1967. The photograph is one of many taken by Jim Peppler for an article about the National Peanut Festival in Dothan in October 1967. The article appeared in the Southern Courier [Montgomery] October 28-29, 1967, pp. 3 and 6. Several of his photos were used, but not this one. The article does not mention the poultry queen's appearance at the festival. A PDF of that issue is available here.
The Alabama Poultry and Egg Association has some photos of poultry queens in the 1960s and 1970s on its Facebook page, but no names or specific dates are given.
I did a bit of research, but was unable to identify this 1967 Queen. If anyone knows the name of this young lady, or anything about the poultry queen contest, let us know in the comments.
Source: Alabama Dept of Archives and History via Alabama Mosaic
