New Stickies Ideas

[casportpony]

Looking for ideas/things to add to the peafowl stickies.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

From: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/670065/show-off-your-peas/2490

Spring Cleaning for the Board.
Hey Every One! Happy New Year! I've been absent for a couple months and have desperately missed my BYC Peafowl fix. I opened a new Gift Store in November and have been working my tail off ! (Ha! little peafowl joke there) Sales were great, the economy is not dead and I'm a happy camper.

How would every one feel about starting some fresh threads under Peafowl? All the topics have gotten kinda merged, so some great information is getting lost. Can we start a few fresh threads labeled " Medicating Peafowl 2014" " Feeding Peafowl 2014", "Sick Peafowl Questions 2014", Peafowl Housing, Raising Baby Peas 2014, Peafowl Varieties, and of course.... the ever popular topic "Sexing Peafowl" I don't want to step on any toes, but It would be great to then copy and paste some of the pertinant info from older threads back up front onto the New Fresh threads- so its readily available again.
Those thread titles are just ideas- feel free to edit or add.

I don't frequent the board enough to charge ahead and do this myself- so thought I would run it by you, the group. ....just thinkin.... Miss Molly

Sounds great to me as long as we don't have to start a new show off your peas thread, there are tons of pretties from everyone in this thread and i would hate to see it buried , the other show off your peas thread got buried when this one started but it was missing alot of photos so this one got started last new years i believe.

We really do need some stickies in our peafowl forum, there is so much good info scattered threw out and if it could be divided into categories like you suggested it would be real helpful, so how do we make this happen as far as stickies go?

 

[new 2 pfowl]

I believe that if you want to add new topics under the existing Peafowl "Stickies" index, you need to get in touch with a BYC administrator.

 

[casportpony]

I believe that if you want to add new topics under the existing Peafowl "Stickies" index, you need to get in touch with a BYC administrator.

I think you prepare you "sticky" then use the report flag and explain why/where you want it.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Right now I'm just thinking about subjects to add, will deal with making them stickies once done.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Right now the stickies look like this:


And this is sort of what I was thinking of adding to it:

-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Those ideas for new stickies sound really helpful, Kathy.

I think that one tricky thing about stickies is that you can't stop people from treating them as just regular threads and posting random stuff, thereby making it more difficult to weed out the useful information. It almost seems like it would be more useful to collect information on, for example, worming, and then post a sticky that is a "locked" page - that can't be commented on.
Not to keep people from contributing but just to keep the sticky on topic.

I'm just saying this because there was an earlier discussion of making a sticky with peachick pictures, a kind of peachick database to aid in identification.
But it seemed that it would just turn into a thread along the lines of "Show Off Your Peachicks," and it wouldn't serve the purpose of being a useful guide. We did try to start an image database (http://peafowlimagedatabase.weebly.com/index.html) but it didn't get off the ground - I think it was kind of intimidating because there are so many colors/patterns that we can't get pictures of...

 

[casportpony]

We can also do member pages, I think, just need to figure out how. Anyway, this might be a good place to make drafts of the final sticky, 'cause like you, I also think it should be a brief reference page.

-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Here's where you make member pages: https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/0/Member_Pages

 

[casportpony]

Here's where you make member pages: https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/0/Member_Pages

You're so smart, lol, thanks!

-Kathy