Announcement April's Fools 2018 - New BYC Cryptocurrency: ChicKoin

[PrairieChickens]

I have Prairie chickens and they haven't laid a CHICKOIN, yet?

Perhaps you have the wrong breed of Prairiechickens.

 

[Bunnylady]

Perhaps you have the wrong breed of Prairiechickens.

Or maybe theirs just aren't as talented (great work!)

 

[N F C]

Let it be known, I have no idea who I am laughing at.

2007 - April Fools - BYC Expanding - BackYardCows.com
2008 - April Fools - BYC Hacked!!
2009 - Thanks Everyone! Third Annual BYC April Fools Day Was LOTS of Fun!
2010 - April Fools - New BYC Store Product: The EggCell !!
2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs! April Fools 2011
2012 - April Fools 2012 - New Forums / Sections - Exotic Backyard Animals
2013 - Big Announcement: BYC & Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Partnership - BeakBook - April fool's 2013
2014 - April Fools 2014 - BYC Sponsored Study: Increase Chicken Broodiness By Up To 48% With Aluminum Foil
2015 - April Fools 2015 - Announcement - BYC Staff / Moderator Term Limits & Retirement
2016 - April Fools 2016 - New Development: Chicken Feed That Changes Egg Shell Color!

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Your good, You made 2017 disappear !

There were some good ones! My favorite was 2015...lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth on that one

 

[DuckLady]

Just gone through some of the other April fools! 2008 has to be the best! Wish I'd joined sooner!
This thread was hilarious!!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/banned.42707/

That was my favorite, too. We had such fun! I don't think we had so many Staff members awake and online at the same time.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I need ChicKoin!

Start making one

 

[Ms Biddy]

Omg, BackYardCows, the EggCell and BackYardExoticAnimals. I'm dying. It sounds like some people got hurt feelings when they realized they wouldn't be able to sell their extra eggs, but come on. You have me in stitches.

 

[Happy Chooks]

The EggCell was right before my moderator days. I remember thinking how stupid!

The Facebook Partnership really freaked people out! The tin foil one was funny too!

 

[Happy Chooks]

2017 was Backyard Robots (it's mislabled 2016, but was 2017):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/introducing-backyard-robots.1162552/

 

[BYCforlife]

Nice, Chickoins! My chickens need them to buy illegal high protein feed.

 

[Blooie]

I was hoping my “I did my research and these are the potential issues” post sounded educated and informative enough to feed into the thread but folks seemed to catch on the whole April 1 thing pretty quickly. We must all be getting smarter.