We've been working hard to try to find a way to let the members help pick winners, but the old system we used is no longer available. Hopefully we'll find another system, otherwise we'll have our team work together to choose a winner.
Ok, some bad news: We haven't been able to find a way to get the system setup to allow some members to rank coops. So, we're gonna do this old-skool:
Attached is a spreadsheet with all the submissions. For anybody who has NOT participated in this contest: If you can download and fill it out then send it to me via PM or email (support@ the byc domain) we'll use it in connection with our team's review of the coops.
1) Rank the coop on a scale of 1 - 5 (1 = least helpful, and 5 = most helpful). “Helpful” means that the info and pics would be very helpful to someone trying to build a coop. If it has plans, construction pictures, step-by-step info, and great write up that is easy to understand and follow… that’s the best coop page! A non-helpful page has very little helpful info, few pictures, etc.
2) Determine the size of the coop (1 = tractor which usually is small and has wheels so it can be moved around, 2 = small, 3 = medium, 4 = large). This is obviously very subjective, but just try your best.
Alternately you can copy and past the below into a PM to me and fill in the data columns to the right:
Sorry... It may be that the long winter is just getting to me, but I feel like I'm not quite getting this. Lol
I got the form to open up just fine, and started to look at all the other coops and rank them by size, etc. but... You don't want this of us who are entered in this contest to do the ranking do you??
Or maybe you do, but we can't "rank" the coops in the same size category as our own?
I'm happy to pitch in! Just wasn't sure it was ok.
And... Just sayin... There are a LOT of really nice coops entered!!
That's probably not great news for my hubby.
There were also four that were chosen for second place, and each will get a 6 month Golden Feather Membership for themselves or as a gift for a friend:
As always, a huge congratulations to all our winners!!!
You'll be contacted via PM with info on how to claim your prize.
But remember, we're all winners when our members submit their coop designs to share with the world. The BYC chicken coop designs get visited by hundreds of thousands of peeps every month and help us share our wonderful hobby with the world.
Thanks to everyone who created a BYC Coop Page to share. All the coop pages submitted to this contest will be sorted by size and inserted into the respective sub-indexes of coop pages.