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This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along Hatching Fowl Photo Contest Ends April 30th, 2024 Welcome to the Hatching Fowl Photo Contest. The stressful time of watching your baby fowl grow in the egg is now over, and...

Who's hatching this year? My birds are just not laying - I think they're going to skip a year. The other emu keeper in my area is having the same thing - his emus aren't laying, but his ostriches are, which is way out of season for them. The weird weather this year messed them up, I think...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) BYC's 2023 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along! Halloween Egg Decorating Contest! Ends on November 2nd, 2023 How many ways can you decorate an egg? Well, if you're planning to decorate...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Official BYC 2023 Summer Fair Other Poultry Show Ends on August 20th, 2023 This show is for all domestic poultry (ducks, geese, peafowl, turkeys, quail, pigeons, pheasants, emus...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Valentine's Day Contest Series Wattle I Do Without You? Ends February 19th, 2023 This is a RANDOM Winner Contest... Do you have a favorite chicken? Maybe she's extra friendly and comes...

Figured I'd start a thread for this season :) I have gotten two eggs so far and will be firing up the incubator soon. Who else is hatching this year?

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) 🎃🦇BYC's 2022 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!🦇🎃 Creepy Critter Photo Contest Ends on November 4th, 2022 Halloween is the time of year when we celebrate all things spooky - ghosts...

I have an older SOP that I would like to sell. This is the 2010 edition, so any breeds or varieties that have been accepted since then are NOT in this SOP. But if your breed is one of the ones that was accepted prior to then, or you just want an SOP to get started, this will work for you. It has...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Broodies & Their Babies Photo Contest Closes June 5th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Many of our members here have had a hen go broody, and springtime usually means broody hens and new chicks...

Just starting a thread for Pixel, somewhere that I can share the fun stuff - and vent my frustrations, haha. This is Pixel! She is a Mini American Shepherd. Her birthday is 1/23/22. I brought her home last Saturday. We are of course still working on potty training, basic training, and...

Guide to Incubation Humidity discussion How to Tell a Fertile vs INfertile Egg (Pictures) A Guide to Humidity, Weighing and Lockdown Incubation Humidity Article Egg Candling! Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices. Egg Candling Pics: Progression Though Incubation Calibrating the Hygrometer...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Welcome to the Valentine's Day Contest Series Who Can Resist Chocolate on Valentine's Day! What's sweeter than chocolate on Valentine's Day? Poultry come in a myriad of colors, so for...

Winners announced here! This contest is closed. Check out the new contest here: Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #16 This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #15 Contest End Date: March 22nd, 2022 at...

Winners announced here! Come check out the new contest! Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #15 This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Official BYC Article Writing Contest #14 Contest End Date: December 1st, 2021 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Official BYC 2021 Summer Fair Indoor Plant Show Do you adore your Aloe plant? Pamper your Philodendron? Spoil your Spider Plant? This is the perfect place to show them off! Share your...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Official BYC 2021 Summer Fair Meat Bird Show Welcome to the 2021 BYC Summer Fair Meat Bird show! Do you raise your own birds for meat? Then this show is for you! All meat breeds are...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Official BYC 2021 Summer Fair Other Poultry Show Welcome to the 2021 BYC Summer Fair Other Poultry show! This show is for all poultry other than chickens. Examples include ducks, geese...

Winners announced here! This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors (click to view & support them) Spring on the Farm Other Fowl Photo Contest We want to see your fabulous spring photos of your "other fowl"! The rules are simple: feature any waterfowl, turkey, peafowl, quail, pheasant...

We usually have one of these every year, but it doesn't look like one got made yet this year. So, who's hatching? I've got tons of Tufted Roman eggs going from my own flock. Also some Lavender and Blue American eggs, AND for the first time I just found another breeder of Tufted Romans, so I'm...

I've been looking for Dutch Hookbills for awhile; I'm fascinated with anything odd or unusual in the poultry world, and the hookbills certainly fit the bill. However, they are critically endangered, according to The Livestock Conservancy, and that makes them very hard to find. Finally I got...