The 2009 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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2009 Winner

BackYardChickens

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Contestant's Case to Win

Are you looking for a way to be more self sufficient?
Perhaps you're looking for ways to participate in the "grow local" movement?
Maybe you just want one of the coolest pets in your neighborhood, a pet that makes you breakfast!

BackYardChickens.com is where you can discover why you should own your own small flock of egg machines and learn how to care for them. Help us update the old saying “A chicken in every pot!” to the new millennium version: “A chicken in every YARD!”

At BYC you’ll find:

1) The largest and fastest growing community of chicken enthusiasts in the world (40,000+ members posting over 7,000 times a day!)
2) Over 300 chicken coop design pages submitted by our community
3) An extensive chicken breed database with pictures
4) All the information you need to learn how to hatch eggs, raise chicks, and care for your flock.

Visit BackYardChickens.com today to learn how you can start your own small flock of backyard egg machines and then you too can have a pet that makes you breakfast!

Introduction to BYC YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecI390dhENY

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  • BYC is a great and informative website. A woman hatched a chick in her cleavage there, but the administrators...Read more
  • BYC is a fabulous site, packed with useful chicken-keeping information and the most friendly, helpful...Read more
  • I want to thank all of BYC Members. We had a tragic fire that i lost all but 1 roo, and a lot of BYC...Read more