Winners Announced Here!
What rhymes with Halloween? Pumpkins! Or maybe not - but poultry go crazy for pumpkin! Show us pictures of your poultry (chickens, waterfowl, turkeys, quail, peafowl, guinea fowl, pheasants, etc.) eating pumpkin, and you could WIN!!
If entries warrant, we will have two categories, landfowl & waterfowl, with prizes for both categories.
Prizes
BYC Store Gift Certificates are available to winners in the United States. If the winners are outside the United States, they will be awarded the PFM instead.
It's easy to enter, just reply to this thread with pictures of your poultry eating or thinking about eating a pumpkin.
To increase your chances of winning, please read the rules before entering.
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Rules:
From left to right, photos by: @SueT, @Courtney10, @EverythingDucks, & @LizGio
2021 Winners
From left to right, photos by @JewelBirds, @Rorris999, @Allsfairinloveandbugs, & @miles2go480
2020 Winners
From left to right, photos by @HiEverybirdy, @mckaylaburgess, & @Sahraschweiss
2016 Winners
From left to right, photos by @CuzChickens, @Backyard Hobby, & @mrskalka
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BYC's 2023 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!
Poultry Pecking Pumpkins Photo Contest
Ends on November 5th, 2023
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BYC's 2023 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!
Poultry Pecking Pumpkins Photo Contest
Ends on November 5th, 2023
What rhymes with Halloween? Pumpkins! Or maybe not - but poultry go crazy for pumpkin! Show us pictures of your poultry (chickens, waterfowl, turkeys, quail, peafowl, guinea fowl, pheasants, etc.) eating pumpkin, and you could WIN!!
If entries warrant, we will have two categories, landfowl & waterfowl, with prizes for both categories.
Prizes
Place | Prize |
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First | $50 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 1-year PFM ($60 value) for yourself or a friend. |
Second | $30 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 6-month PFM ($35 value) for yourself or a friend. |
Third | $15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($20 value) for yourself or a friend. |
Fourth | 1-month PFM |
It's easy to enter, just reply to this thread with pictures of your poultry eating or thinking about eating a pumpkin.
To increase your chances of winning, please read the rules before entering.
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Rules:
- An entry is one picture of your domestic poultry eating or pecking, or thinking about eating or pecking a pumpkin.
- All domestic poultry allowed (chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, peafowl, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, emu, etc.).
- Other animals may be in the photo, but the star(s) of the photo must be your domestic poultry.
- No costumes. Poultry wearing costumes may enter the Critter Halloween Costume Contest.
- Four entries per member. One photo per post, please.
- Images that have been resized might be disqualified if they are too small to judge.
- No screenshots, watermarks, date stamps, text, etc., on the photo. No collages.
- The photo needs to have been taken by you.
- You cannot use a photo that won an award in another BYC-sponsored contest.
- High-quality images are recommended. Basic editing, such as cropping and other subtle changes, are allowed.
- ALL photos MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
- Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
- All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules)
- Entries will be accepted through November 5th, 2023, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
- Photography Tips from BYC's jolenesdad
- Photography Tips from BYC's mdees88
- Photography Tips from BYC's TudyBot
From left to right, photos by: @SueT, @Courtney10, @EverythingDucks, & @LizGio
2021 Winners
From left to right, photos by @JewelBirds, @Rorris999, @Allsfairinloveandbugs, & @miles2go480
2020 Winners
2016 Winners
If you have not yet joined us at the BYC's 2023 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!, click HERE and come say hi!