Yup, we get about 10-20 POW submissions per week. If you do the math, that makes the list really long and a really long time before someone's pic is posted as the POW. Instead of making it so you have to wait 10 years before your pic is posted here's what we do:
1) We first filter out pics...
We are not accepting submissions in this thread. Please follow POW submission process in the first post here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=153449#p153449
Since the POW is the picture that new visitors see right when they visit BYC and the forum we want to make sure we don't confuse them with pictures other than of chickens.
Unfortunately no. Only email and only to the support email address. When there were only 2-3 submissions a week it wasn't a problem, but now that we get way more... we've needed to have a better streamlined process.
A secret way to access the info:
Go to the folder with the pictures and you'll see accompanying text documents with info about the POW (for example: https://www.backyardchickens.com/images/weekly/2009-10-19.txt )
Here is where the most recent POWs live...
I think you'll get arrested in most states except WA and HI if you submit anything other than a chicken.
We'd like to accommodate ducks, geese, etc. but we already get about 30 chickens submissions a week, so unfortunately can't accept anything other than chickens.
We get about 15 - 20 submissions per week, so you can imagine that we're a bit backlogged (i.e., using submissions from July).
The more POW submissions we receive the more picky we unfortunately have to be. If you submission was sent in before July then you should assume we decided not to...
Unfortunately we're not that organized.
We go through them (and we get a lot) and try to pick the most clean and best pictures while trying to give everyone a chance to get their pic in.
I think we'll need to do a pic of the day pretty soon!
A reminder: Please see the first post for information on how to submit your POW for review. Posts to this thread with picture submissions will be deleted.