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Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #16
Contest End Date: June 23rd, 2022 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
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Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #16
Contest End Date: June 23rd, 2022 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
Short Version:
Write a great article and you could win a great prize & have your article featured on the homepage of BYC!
Detailed Version:
We are constantly amazed at how knowledgeable and helpful our community members are! The BYC forum provides a wonderful opportunity for members to post questions and reply with answers. Unfortunately, a lot of really amazing information can get lost in the super activity on the forum.
Over the years we’ve received a ton of requests to add more articles & FAQs to our Learning Center. Our BYC Coop Page Contests have been super successful and now we have over 3000 chicken coop articles in our Chicken Coops section! Hopefully, we can have similar success with this BYC Article Contest!!
This contest is not for coop articles. If you have a coop article, please enter the coop article contest here.
Suggested reading:
The Process:
- You write an article.
- Entries accepted until June 23rd, 2022 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
- Judging starts June 24th.
- Judging ends July 2nd.
- Winners announced July 5th.
Prizes
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| First | A $100 Brinsea Gift Certificate, or a $120 BYC Store Gift Certificate, or two 12-month PFMs ($120 value) for themselves or a friend |
| Second | A $50 Brinsea Gift Certificate, or a $50 BYC Store Gift Certificate, or a 12-month PFM ($60 value) for themselves or a friend |
| Third | $30 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 6-month PFM ($35 value) for themselves or a friend. |
| Fourth | $15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($20 value) for themselves or a friend. |
| Fifth | $15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($20 value) for themselves or a friend. |
How To Enter:
- Pick a poultry-related topic. We suggest writing an article that is not already covered in our Learning Center, but is a topic that would be a good addition to one of the sections in the Learning Center.
- See here for article/member page/coop page writing tutorial:
- Create a well-worded & detailed title. Example: “How To Raise & Process Chickens for Meat - Tips & Pictures” is much better than: “Meat Chickens”
- Write a unique high-quality article with around 500 words (more is fine as long as it is good/helpful info). It must have at least one picture relative to the subject. Bonus points if you add more pictures.
- Post a reply to this thread with a link to your completed article(s) - A maximum of Two article submissions per member will be allowed.
- All articles must be written by you and must be unique (do not copy from other sources).
- Absolutely NO COPYRIGHTED content allowed!
- Only original pictures, taken by you, or someone you know (with their permission) may be used.
- ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
- Sorry, articles and pages submitted to our previous contests will not count for this contest.
- All articles must contain accurate information, must be a minimum of 500 words (shoot for 750+), and should contain pictures relative to the subject matter.
- Please spell-check and grammar-check your article(s).
- BYC retains full license of articles submitted.
- ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
- For bonus points, try to include at least one link at the end of your article to another related BYC article, thread, or post.
- Open to all BYC members.
- All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules).
- Entries accepted through June 23rd, 2022 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
Here are some great examples of existing BYC articles:
- Feeding Ducklings Medicated Feed - The Myths and the Truth
- Incubation Humidity
- The Beginner's Guide to Incubation
- Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
- How Much Room Do Chickens Need?
- Cleaning and storing fresh eggs
- Ten Reasons You Should Spend Ten Extra Minutes With Your Flock Every Day
Here are some article ideas to get you started:
Raising and Processing Ducks for Meat
How to Use Permethrin Spray and Dust on Birds and Coops
Blackhead Disease in Turkeys
When Can Chicks Go Outside?
We look forward to your submissions!!
(Wait, you’re not the writing type? If you have an idea for an article that you’d like to see someone write, please reply to this thread with an idea for a title and a quick description of what you’d like to see contained in the article.)
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Great job everyone, this was so much fun!! 
