Question of the Day - Saturday, May 24th, 2025

[casportpony]

Today's question is from @tlcmurphy:

What’s the best April Fool’s joke you’ve fallen for?

I don't remember falling for one. Here are the ones BYC has done:

Another super fun and successful April Fools for our amazing BYC community!

See all our previous here:

Year	Thread
2007	April Fools 2007 - BYC Expanding - BackYardCows.com
2008	April Fools 2008 - BYC Hacked!!
2009a	April Fools 2009 - Server Upgrade Good News / Bad News - Post Counts Lost
2009b	Thanks Everyone! Third Annual BYC April Fools Day Was LOTS of Fun!
2010	April Fools 2010 - New BYC Store Product: The EggCell !!
2011	April Fools 2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs!
2012	April Fools 2012 - New Forums / Sections - Exotic Backyard Animals
2013	April Fools 2013 - Big Announcement: BYC & Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Partnership - BeakBook
2014	April Fools 2014 - BYC Sponsored Study: Increase Chicken Broodiness By Up To 48% With Aluminum Foil
2015	April Fools 2015 - Announcement - BYC Staff / Moderator Term Limits & Retirement
2016	April Fools 2016 - New Development: Chicken Feed That Changes Egg Shell Color!
2017	April Fools 2017 - Introducing: BackYard Robots
2018	April Fools 2018 - New BYC Cryptocurrency: ChicKoin
2019	April Fools 2019 - BYC Now Fully Self-Moderated
2020	April Fools 2020 - Exciting New Chicken Breed: Quickens
2021	April Fools 2021 - Coming Soon! Local BYC Physical Store, Café, & Meet-up & Community Center
2022	April Fools 2022 - Reserve Your New Username NOW!
2023	April Fools Day 2023 | Introducing TudyBOT - Our New AI BYC Member
2024	April Fools 2024 - Coming Soon: BYC Extreme Coop Makeover YouTube Series!

And this year's Profile pictures rotated?

 

[fowltemptress]

When I was young my parent's yelled, "Come quick, Abby laid an egg!"
I scrambled out of bed to find they'd placed a chicken egg in the bottom of my cockatiel's cage.

The worst one was in fifth grade when a boy said I was pretty. I was shocked and flattered and was trying to think of how to reply when he yelled, "April Fools!" and ran off.
Fifth grade me was in no emotional shape to be able to handle something like that.

 

[Sally PB]

On March 31 in my senior year, someone at my high school set some books in someone's locker on fire. We ended up all going home.

The next morning, the first hour teacher said, "The fire department wants to be sure they got the fire completely out, so we're all going home again."

Books close, kids are saying, "Cool!" and standing up.

"April Fool!" says the teacher.

 

[sourland]

The Princess nails me with an April Fools joke every year. I wipe them out of my mind so as to preserve our relationship.

 

[tripletfeb]

I don't remember ever falling for one but I got my son good a few years ago. April 2020, he fell for the Sloof Lirpa trick. He wants me to delete that video from my phone but I refuse

 

[500Chickens]

the rotating PFPs on here. I forgot it was April Fool's that day

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Today's question is from @tlcmurphy:

I don't remember falling for one. Here are the ones BYC has done:

And this year's Profile pictures rotated?

The Quicken one on here. I was so excited and almost actually contacted people near me to get an order together

 

[notabitail]

I don't recall falling for one.

 

[C Siena]

Not me but my father in law's favorite day was April Fools.

He called women from the Church and informed them, he was a marketing rep from Campbell's Soup. He explained that they have a brand new soup called Chunky Wunky. If they sang the Campbell's Soup song, they would receive a years supply of Chunky Wunky...every one of them sang the song. Then... April Fools.