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Winners announced here!
This BYC contest is brought to you by our sponsors.
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This BYC contest is brought to you by our sponsors.
Please visit them and thank them for their support of BYC
We know there are a TON of great threads on homemade brooders, waterers, feeders, incubators etc on BYC. Now we would like to see your best money and time saving inventions! We would like to show us your best homemade invention and how you did it and if we really like it, you could be a winner!
Contest Details:
This is a contest to see who can create the "best" waterer / feeder / incubator / brooder for BYC. Put together a page with step by step instructions explaining how you put together your invention. Include as many pics as possible. Remember a pic is worth a 1,000 words! (And you'll get bonus points for extra pics!
Prizes:
The winner of the contest will get a $50 Gift Certificate for the BYC Store!
The 2nd place winner will receive a $20 Gift certificate for the BYC Store!
and the 3rd and 4th place winners will each get a 3-month PFM
Here is what could be included in your page:
- A write up of how you built your waterer / feeder / incubator / brooder along with any information you think would be helpful to other people who may want to build a similar units.
- Any designs / plans you used to build your waterer / feeder / incubator / brooder.
- Pictures of your waterer / feeder / brooder / incubator as it was being constructed.
- Finished pictures of your waterer / feeder / brooder / incubator.
- What you would change, do differently next time, or add to your completed waterer / feeder / brooder / incubator.
- A parts list with prices (if possible)
If you want your page to win, make sure it has as many of the elements above in as much detail as possible! Here are some additional hints to help you win the contest:
- Follow the format of some of the existing waterer/feeder/incubator/brooder pages.
- The more details and pictures the better!
- Pictures - We all love lots of pictures!
If you have questions about the contest reply to this thread.
We expect to add all of the pages submitted to the new homemade chicken waterer / feeder / brooder / incubator section but the best will win the contest.
TO ENTER THE CONTEST:
1) Create a cool page
2) Reply to this thread with a link to your waterer / feeder page on BYC!
3) Have Fun!
NOTES:
If you're one of those modest types and want to add your waterer / feeder / brooder / incubator to the site but don't want to enter the contest, that is fine. Please still add a link to your page in this thread... the more designs the better the community will be!
We want all types of waterers / feeders / brooders / incubators. Small, big, simple, complex, wood, plastic, glass etc. Everyone has different budgets, time, and use cases, so we want to capture them all!
If you can't / aren't inclined to create a page but have lots of good pictures and a write up of your design, please email them to [email protected] and we can build a page for you.
If you are unsure how to go about creating a page, see our tutorial here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/953810/coop-pages-and-member-pages-tutorial-and-feedback/0_30
For some inspiration, here are our previous contest winners' pages:
1st: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/heated-nesting-boxes-help-stop-frozen-eggs
2nd: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/quick-and-easy-5-gallon-waterer
3rd: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/jorjfdjungles-automatic-chicken-waterer
**We are going to set an end date for this contest as soon as we received 30 submissions**
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