Ended 2024 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

[DustyNoods]

How long did it take to get that shot, awesome

Not very long honestly! They sat happily I got a lot of pics

 

[saving grace]

Silkie Chick Entry #2

 

[MsChickenTender]

Petunia...my Pekin/Polish cross

 

[casportpony]

Entry 1
Double trouble

Pretty hens! Is the red one a red sex link?

Entry 1 I think? Golden Phoenix King and Lavender Orpington hen un-named as of yet.

Look how long his tail feathers are!

Entry 2. Star and chicks.

This is adorable!

Entry 3. Lavender Ameraucana/Orpington chick.

Too cute.

Entry 4. Spitzhauben rooster no name right now. Name is now Sultan.

Handsome boy and I think Sultan suits him.

Entry 2
My older batch wondering why I keep taking pics lol

What breeds are they?

#1
My chick Junior hatched one day later Because the broodies left him behind I took the chick inside in a kangaroo sack and with a towl on top to keep Junior warm.
In the evening I tucked Junior in under one of the mama’s. Next day Junior could follow.

PS Junior is a bantam red speckled Sussex. Mai 2023

#2
Ini Mini and Kraai. Both Dutch bantams with different colours . Inside the coop on the roosting bars.

February 2023.

I love your bantams.

#3
Black, one of my Dutch bantams in the garden in the summer of 2022.

She's pretty.

#4 Janice, a mix breed bantam (Dutch x Naine de Tournaisis). She already was on the calendar of 2023 with a flock mate. Janice is my most elegant chicken.
Foto taken in the summer of 2022.

Last year's Miss June!

#1

Look at that face!

#2

Nice looking hens.

Frizzled naked-necks! Love them.

Entry #2.
Cubalaya bantam.

Very handsome!

Thelma a Maran

Love the iridescent colors.

Olive

Pretty hen.

Rico my month old polish cross cockerel, he started crowing at 3.5 weeks of age, what an overachiever!

He looks so serious!

Penne, a Polish cross hopefully pullet just shy of 3 weeks of age, being brooded by my co-broody silkies.

This is adorable.

Mr P my Polish Roo, watching over his Harem.

Pretty boy. Love his poofy head.

Mama Curly and her 4 chicks enjoying a drink.

Cute!

Landscape or portrait? Trying figure out why they are in portrait when I have the camera turned to landscape? Back to the drawing board

This is landscape - Nice looking hens.

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Cute!

Entry #3??
My young 4.
Janice (silver lace Wyandotte?)
Joan (porcelain d’uccle?)
July (D’Uccle?)
June (D’Uccle?)

Four chicks posing perfectly!

Entry #1

Entry #2

Entry #3

Entry #4

( the whole time she was trying to eat a bee that was munching on the yummy flowers. I kept having to tell her: “Rue, hey Rue! Please leave the bee alone Rue.”

Glad she didn't get stung!

Entry #3- Maleficent, a wyandotte

Pretty hen!

That's cute.

Beware Chickens Everywhere!

Nice yard.

Everyone Ready for the Hayride?

Mine like hay, too.

My precious barred lavender pullet Narwhal roosting in the low trees branches

Cute.

Piper black crested polish

Cute picture, but it's the wrong format and people aren't allowed in the photos.

My chicks enjoying themselves on the dog’s pillow in the hotel

Do they dust bathe in it? I have a couple that dust bathe in a dog bed.

Pretty hen.

this was taken in portrait and I've cropped to make wider than high, but I don't know how to check if it'll work at your stated dimensions; hopefully it does, but if not, never mind. It's his 4th birthday today, and this was his mum this morning making sure he was looking his best before he left the dappled spring shade

How sweet!

Buff Orpington Chick

Cute!

OOO, I've got to enter!
Lemme pick...
Hm... not an entry
I'm going to take an entry worthy photo but just wanted to share this. Mrs Clean-egg the hen I lost to EYP today.

Oh no, I am so sorry for your loss.

French Fry living her best life in my flower pot

Mine do that too!

One of my 12 week old RIR pullets. Camera hog. This pic just makes me smile.

Entry #3.
Cubalaya cock, king of the barnyard.

Another handsome boy!

Silkie Chick Entry #2

Petunia...my Pekin/Polish cross

Very cute!

 

[ChickyWhicky]

Pretty hens! Is the red one a red sex link?

The woman I bought her from said she was a comet. I have 20 of them, all look similar.

 

[Antiocheggers]

Sonnie yellow crested polish

 

[casportpony]

Sonnie yellow crested polish

Very pretty!

 

[Antiocheggers]

Very pretty!

Thank you !

 

[InNC]

So many adorable birds! How will they ever choose? I find myself flipping through the pics just for the smile it brings me. Maybe you could start a magazine? I'd, sure, subscribe

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

So many adorable birds! How will they ever choose? I find myself flipping through the pics just for the smile it brings me. Maybe you could start a magazine? I'd, sure, subscribe

There is a Backyard Poultry magazine (though I don't believe that they're connected to BYC). Here's a link to their subscription: https://bky.iamcountryside.com/loading.do?pk=EBPDNNZE&omedasite=bky_new

I don't get the Backyard Poultry magazine, but what I do is order all the free magazines from chicken hatcheries like Murray McMurray and Cackle. (I actually have several of my pictures in the Murray McMurray catalog.)