Ended What's Your Hobby?—Official 2024 BYC Mini-Contest

[azurbanclucker]

Winners announced here!​

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What's Your Hobby?
Official 2024 BYC Mini-Contest
Ends November 30th, 2024​

This is a RANDOM Winner Contest...

We want to know what you love! Whether you're lucky enough to have a hobby that pays the bills, or it's something you enjoy doing in your free time, tell us all about it! What are your creative and artistic pursuits? Do you collect something special? Did you need to buy an external hard drive to store all of the pictures you take? Share with us what hobbies you enjoy most!

It's easy to enter, just reply to this thread with up to 4 of your hobbies, and you will be entered for a chance to win!

There will be at least three winners, and each will receive a copy of the beautiful BYC 2025 Calendar!

The calendar is available to winners who reside in the United States. Winners outside the United States will be awarded a 1-month PFM.

To increase your chances of winning, please read the rules before entering.

Rules:

1. Four entries per member. One hobby per post, please.
2. An entry is one or more pictures of your hobby and a blurb about the hobby (see rule #3).
3. Please add a short description of your hobby. Examples:
   • What is it that you love about this hobby?
   • When do you do the Hobby?
   • What sacrifices do you make to be able to practice your hobby?
   • Are you an amateur? An adept? An expert?
   • Are you lucky enough that this hobby is part of your job/income?
   • The above are just examples of how to create your post, you don´t have to talk about all of them, and you can add other things if you want, those are just a few guidelines in case you don’t know how to make your post!
4. The picture needs to have been taken by you, a friend, or someone in your immediate family.
5. You cannot use a photo that won an award in another BYC-sponsored contest.
6. ALL photos MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
7. Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
8. All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules)
9. Entries will be accepted through November 30th, 2024, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Note: We will use a random number generator to select our winners for this Contest.

2023 Winners

Knitting	Cake Decorating	Baking	Drawing	Cricut

From left to right, photos by @Montymoo, @Littlefoxhat, @RebelFord81, @ksbkeys, & @OneMountainAcres

2022 Contest Winners

Bee Keeping	Fossil Hunting	Genealogy	AGSMs	Horses

From left to right, photos by @Eagle343, @Allsfairinloveandbugs, @Bartonsfinest, @Shabby Chic-Hens, & @Silkie Princess

Mushroom Hunting	Gray Egg Layers	Old Sewing Machines	Latch Hooking	Custom Diecasts

From left to right, photos by @Paz, @gimmie birdies, @The Tiny Homestead, @theoldchick, & @Gearhead846

2021 Contest Winners

Chicken Keeping	Hook Rugs	The Harp

From left to right, photos by @Exiragirls, @theoldchick, & @Naisha

Drawing	Oil Candles	Chicken Keeping

From left to right, photos by @GigitheBackyardHerbilist, @Piefoot, & @AvocadoAbi

2020 Contest Winners

Repurposing antiques​	Comic Books​	Online Auctions​	Hobby Farming​	Treasure Hunting​
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From left to right, photos by @CluckerFamily, @Chicken_loverXx, @slippednfell, @cmom, @ronkonkoma

2019 Contest Winners

Grooming​	Photography​	Baking​	Geocaching​	Scrounging​
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From left to right, photos by @FortCluck, @Madie'sOddFlock, @Meg-in-MT, @Casper417, @RaZ

Check out the rest of the contests here:
Official 2024 BYC Mini-Contests—Win One of 36 BYC 2025 Calendars!

If you would like to purchase a beautiful BYC 2025 Calendar, see this thread: 2025 Calendars are HERE!!!

 

[azurbanclucker]

This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors
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Official 2024 BYC Mini-Contests
Ends November 30th, 2024
Twelve (12) amazing contests to choose from!
Click on a picture to view the contest!​

Fabulous Feather Foto Contest: Zoom in on the intricate patterns and mesmerizing colors of feathered beauty

Show Us Your Flock Photo Contestt: Present your flock in all its proud glory

Miss BYC Beauty Pageant: Crown the most dazzling, charming, and photogenic fowl in our community

Mister BYC Beauty Pageant: Give our handsome and debonair male fowl a chance to shine

Show Off Your Eggs Photo Contest!: Frame the elegance and wonder of eggs in captivating compositions

Poultry and Pals Photo Contest: Capture the delightful bond between your poultry and other furry, scaly, or feathery friends

Funny Poultry Faces & Poses Photo Contest: Have your camera at the ready to catch your flock at their most hilarious moments

Family and Fowl Photo Contest: Show off memorable moments with your feathered family member

Fluffy Butt Photo Contest: Celebrate the adorable and quirky side of feathered posterior perfection

Pets With Paws Photo Contest: Show us the adorable companions that bring joy to your life (other than the poultry!)

What's Your Hobby?: Share the passion that ignites your soul and showcases your unique talents

November Nuttiness, a Random Funny Posting Contest: Post your funniest pictures, jokes, and stories to get a chance in our random number drawing for a BYC 2025 calendar

 

[EChicky]

I really enjoy baking. I always come up with new recipes. My family is always so supportive and open to trying all sorts of the creations I make. It is honestly so relaxing and a great way to relieve stress after a long day. After all, stressed backwards is desserts.

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

This is a hard one for me. I like making stuff….cooking to beading to sewing to crocheting and yes I have supplies for all of these, but not enough time. None are part of my career though. I wonder if I would like them if they were. I do not take pictures of things I make though. Here is two samples of two of my hobbies.

 

[Perris]

I enjoy Gardening with chickens. I've been gardening for decades, and doing it with chickens since 2017. I made a lot of mistakes when I started, but tried to learn from each one of them, and I make a lot fewer now. The most important lesson I learned is to work with nature, not against it.

 

[Perris]

and I enjoy cooking; this is Swedish apple cardamom cake

I've only really had the time and energy for this hobby since I retired. I try to avoid waste, so use seasonal produce, in whatever shape or form it comes, and look for recipes that use what I've got rather than go shopping for a long list of ingredients. I've discovered lots of new dishes this way.

 

[Perris]

And I like history and visiting museums. This Roman mosaic made in micro-tesserae at Agrigento in Sicily seems like an appropriate illustration for that hobby:

History is a very accommodating hobby: there is a time and a place and a topic to suit anyone's interests. But having chickens is a constraint on travel; finding available, reliable and capable chicken-sitters is not easy.

 

[Logar]

My reptiles!
It has been super rewarding and fun owning them over the past few years. They are super entertaining and fun to interact with. Seeing them grow, develop their personalities, and learn to trust me has been amazing and unbelievably rewarding. I have become very knowledgeable about them but I try to keep learning as much as i possibly can.
Potato the northern blue tongue skink-

Elmo my Texas rat snake (he has the scaleless mutation)-

And Neptoon my crested gecko-

 

[Logar]

I love herping. Herping is the act searching for reptiles and amphibians in the wild. I enjoy it as i love interacting with them and seeing them in natural, or not so natural, environments. It is also very fun to get to explore places you wouldn’t normally go!

 

[azurbanclucker]

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I see slides, socks, and pj pants are not a look unique to the desert-dwelling teens.