History of the BackYard Chickens website
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in 1999 a few baby chicks were brought home from a kindergarten class.
Similar to the experience of hundreds of thousands of other children and
their families, what started out as a fun project turned into a hobby
and then into an obsession! BackYardChickens is the result of years
of collective learning and fun rolled up into the best resource for raising
your own backyard flock.
The site was originally just a simple chicken
coop design . Over time more useful information was added. With
more chicken information came more site visitors,
some of which submitted their own coop designs.
As the content grew so did visits to the site and with visitors came
questions... lots of questions. Everything
from hatching eggs to how
to raise chickens. We tried to answer as many questions as we
could by adding information to the site but we realized there were too
many different variables to create content for every situation.
So, back in 2000 we started the first BYC Chicken Message
Board. Over the years this forum has grown, moved, changed
and moved again. Fortunately even when the forum had some
very significant changes and moves (servers, software, etc.) the community
has remained strong. At the time of updating this page, August 2009,
we've got a vibrant community of more than 40,000 chicken
owners who add about 7,000 new posts per DAY (on average 5 new posts
every minute of every day, 24/7)!
 This
great site and community have grown far beyond anyone's original idea,
and it's great to see this site become something really useful for anyone
interested in raising, breeding and caring for their backyard chickens.
Enjoy! If you have comments or questions, turn to the Chicken
Forum - it's one of the friendliest boards around and you will get
a LOT of great answers to any questions you may have.
BYC is owned and managed by Rob Ludlow
and based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, but the wonderful content
and rich community is the result of over 10 years of contributions by
tens of thousands of people all over the world! You can read a more detailed
journal of events regarding to the history of BYC by clicking: History
Of BackYardChickens
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