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Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #22
Contest End Date: December 25th, 2024, 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:
  1. You write an article.
  2. Entries accepted until December 25th, 2024, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
  3. Judging starts on December 27th, 2024
  4. Judging ends December 31st, 2024
  5. Winners are announced on January 1st, 2025
Prizes if we get 20 or more entries:
PlacePrize
FirstA $100 Brinsea Gift Certificate, or a $120 BYC Store Gift Certificate, or two 12-month PFMs ($160 value) for themselves or a friend
SecondA $50 Brinsea Gift Certificate, or a $50 BYC Store Gift Certificate, or a 12-month PFM ($80 value) for themselves or a friend
Third$30 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 6-month PFM ($50 value) for themselves or a friend.
Fourth$15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($30 value) for themselves or a friend.
Fifth$15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($30 value) for themselves or a friend.

How To Enter:
  1. 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.
  2. See here for the article/member page/coop page writing tutorial.
  3. Create a well-worded & detailed title. Example: “How To Raise & Process Chickens for Meat - Tips & Pictures” is much better than: “Meat Chickens”
  4. Write a unique high-quality article with around 750 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.
  5. 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.
Rules:
  1. All articles must be written by you and must be unique (do not copy from other sources).
  2. Absolutely NO COPYRIGHTED content allowed!
  3. Only original pictures, taken by you, or someone you know (with their permission) may be used. No screenshots from the web, books, or magazines are allowed.
  4. All drawings and/or illustrations must be created by you. No screenshots from the web, books, or magazines are allowed.
  5. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
  6. Sorry, articles and pages submitted to our previous contests will not count for this contest.
  7. 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.
  8. Please spell-check and grammar-check your article(s).
  9. BYC retains full license of articles submitted.
  10. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
  11. For bonus points, try to include at least one link at the end of your article to another related BYC article, thread, or post.
  12. Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
  13. All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules).
  14. Entries are accepted through December 25th, 2024, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time

Here are some great examples of existing BYC articles:

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.)
 
Entry 1...My first ever article! Please let me know if there are any mistakes.
Xylophones, mirrors, and bells...oh my! — Discovering what activities your chickens actually enjoy

Xylophones, mirrors, and bells...oh my! — Discovering what activities your chickens actually enjoy

Have you ever bought fun-looking (and expensive!) toys for your chickens, only to find they barely glanced at them? Maybe you saw that cute video of someone’s “flock band” playing little drums and xylophones, but discovered your flock used the instruments only for stubbing their toes on. Or...
 
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Entry #1...How to build high quality, economical chicken kill cones.

Chicken Kill Cone
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How To Make Chicken Kill Cones

How To Make Chicken Kill Cones

SUMMARY This document details how to make chicken kill cones used to restrain chickens calmly in place as they are being slaughtered. It makes the slaughter process simple, easy, and efficient especially when process multiple birds. Having 2 or more kill cones allow you to process multiples...
 
casportpony said:
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This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors
(click to view & support them)

Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #22
Contest End Date: December 25th, 2024, 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:
  1. You write an article.
  2. Entries accepted until December 25th, 2024, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time
  3. Judging starts on December 27th, 2024
  4. Judging ends December 31st, 2024
  5. Winners are announced on January 1st, 2025
Prizes if we get 20 or more entries:
PlacePrize
FirstA $100 Brinsea Gift Certificate, or a $120 BYC Store Gift Certificate, or two 12-month PFMs ($160 value) for themselves or a friend
SecondA $50 Brinsea Gift Certificate, or a $50 BYC Store Gift Certificate, or a 12-month PFM ($80 value) for themselves or a friend
Third$30 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 6-month PFM ($50 value) for themselves or a friend.
Fourth$15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($30 value) for themselves or a friend.
Fifth$15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($30 value) for themselves or a friend.

How To Enter:
  1. 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.
  2. See here for the article/member page/coop page writing tutorial.
  3. Create a well-worded & detailed title. Example: “How To Raise & Process Chickens for Meat - Tips & Pictures” is much better than: “Meat Chickens”
  4. Write a unique high-quality article with around 750 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.
  5. 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.
Rules:
  1. All articles must be written by you and must be unique (do not copy from other sources).
  2. Absolutely NO COPYRIGHTED content allowed!
  3. Only original pictures, taken by you, or someone you know (with their permission) may be used. No screenshots from the web, books, or magazines are allowed.
  4. All drawings and/or illustrations must be created by you. No screenshots from the web, books, or magazines are allowed.
  5. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
  6. Sorry, articles and pages submitted to our previous contests will not count for this contest.
  7. 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.
  8. Please spell-check and grammar-check your article(s).
  9. BYC retains full license of articles submitted.
  10. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
  11. For bonus points, try to include at least one link at the end of your article to another related BYC article, thread, or post.
  12. Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
  13. All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules).
  14. Entries are accepted through December 25th, 2024, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time

Here are some great examples of existing BYC articles:

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?

Past Article Writing Contests:
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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Are AI generated images allowed if you credit the site you used to create the image?
 
Bobbiejocoop said:
Can I message one of the admins with a question about a topic?
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Bobbie, if it falls under rule #1, I'm sure your topic would be fine.
How To Enter:
  1. 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.
You can write about anything, really, but for this contest, it has to be poultry-related.
 
Debbie292d said:
Bobbie, if it falls under rule #1, I'm sure your topic would be fine.
How To Enter:
  1. 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.
You can write about anything, really, but for this contest, it has to be poultry-related.
Click to expand...
It’s not so much the topic as the fact that I would have no pictures that I took based on the topic I guess lol maybe I could just use AI generated…
 
Bobbiejocoop said:
It’s not so much the topic as the fact that I would have no pictures that I took based on the topic I guess lol maybe I could just use AI generated…
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You'd be a first, I think, as it was asked in the former article contest, and to my knowledge, nobody has replied saying we couldn't use AI. I thought, though (in small print beneath the AI), we would have to state it was AI to not be deceptive. Some of those AI pictures are very realistic!

I honestly think, and it's my personal opinion here, that if people started replacing pictures of their chickens or whatever with AI, that could diminish the credibility of the writer. How can someone write about what to do with my chickens if they don't appear to have any?

However, in your case, or many cases perhaps, where it's near impossible to get a shot of what you want to depict, then AI is probably the only answer unless you know someone who has that shot and gives their permission for you to use it. An article with run-on text and no pictures is harder to read and stay interested/focused. Like the old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words."

I would imagine using AI could be on a case by case basis. If that's all you have, I'd just go for it and let's see!
 

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