What's New 2000 - PoultryHelp.com - Your Best Online Source for Poultry Raising Information and Fertile Hatching Eggs

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12/25/2K - Justine received her own domain name for Chirstmas! Justinescrafts.com We put up one page to start with. Please be patient as it'll take a while to design the site and get it built.
12/13/2K - We have edited our pages to correctly identify the birds we had previously called Ameraucanas as "Easter-Eggers". They were purchased as Ameraucanas (as fertile eggs), but since they matured, do not meet the APA standard for Ameraucanas.
12/13/2K - A visitor made us aware of a problem on the White Guinea photo page, which we found and corrected. Thanks, Brenda!!
11/29/2K - For the past few weeks we have been going through all our links pages to find broken ones and repair them if possible.
We've been moderately successful, but had to simply remove some that no longer existed. The University of Colorado has permanently removed ALL their poultry documents from their website since they no longer retain a poultry staff.
11/3/2K - We've been busy for the past week editing EVERY external (off-site) link on the website so that it opens in a new browser window. This keeps our visitors from getting lost on the WWW. All you need to do is close the second window and you're back here.
10/20-23/2K - Updated navigation links at the bottom of all pages to match new options on Home page menu.
10/17/2K - We moved the following options from links on other pages and added them to the main menu on the home page:
Personal Photos, Affiliations, NPIP Certificate, Mailing List Info.
10/16/2K - We started our own page of Chicken Jokes. Got a good (clean) one? Email us and we'll post it and give you credit!!
10/15/2K - Posted all the Awards our website has won to date: 8 pages with a total of 75 awards so far !!
10/13/2K - Modified our Guestbook so that it sends an automatic "Thank You" message to whoever signs it. Added various links.
10/8/2K - A problem was reported with visitors using Internet Explorer that caused some photo pages to display MUCH wider than the window, forcing the visitor to scroll WAYYY over to the right to see the pictures. I think we now have it fixed. PLEASE! If you find or suspect a problem with the website, please let us know.
10/6/2K - We received a suggestion from one of the review sites that really made sense, so we have added "little links" to the bottom of every page on the website to make it a little easier to navigate. See the bottom of this page for an example.
9/29/2K - We're submitting the website to numerous organizations and award sites for review. We will no longer update this page every time we receive an award, because they're coming in FAST!
9/26/2K - We're gaining momentum! Our website has received FOUR new awards in the last week. See the Awards Page...
9/22/2K - Our site was rated by SafeSurf.com and approved from all ages. The logo was added to our home and awards pages.
9/21/2K - Added numerous links to University Extension Service Help Documents to about 15 of the links pages.
9/19/2K - Posted a copy of our NPIP Certificate on the website with links from the "Our Services Page".
9/15/2K - Added numerous links to the Poultry Supplies, Poultry Hatcheries pages.
9/13/2K - Updated our auction feedback page to include all feedback from the Poultry Connection and Eggbay.com auctions.
9/06/2K - Temperatures here in Central Texas reached 112°f yesterday (actual temp, NOT "heat index") and we lost ALL 4 of our Blue/Blue Splash Cochin pullets/hens to the heat. This leaves us with just three cockerels in that breed. We've removed the B/BS Cochins from the breeds page and removed their photo pages from the website. We also lost 1 Barred Rock pullet, 1 RIR hen, and one pair of white Silkie Bantams yesterday. Temps today are only supposed to get to 98°f.
9/05/2K - Added a final page of 3 Barn Pen Photos showing how the barn center aisle looks now that the pens are complete.
9/05/2K - Added a number of cool website links to the Other Websites of Interest page.
9/04/2K - Added numerous links to various Help Link pages.
9/04/2K - Posted photos of our new egg shipping labels to the Egg Packaging page.
8/30/2K - Added a page of University Extension Service Website Links and added numerous additional links to the other pages.
8/30/2K - Added a page of Other Interesting Websites, for our visitors when they get tired of looking at poultry :o)
8/30/2K - Started link pages for Personal Poultry Websites, Personal Farm and Ranch Websites and Other Personal Websites. These are going to be primarily swapping pages. We'll post links for other websites if they post links to ours. We put a few on there to start with so the pages aren't empty.
8/29/2K - Added over 100 Help Links to University Extension Services on various poultry topics to our Link Pages.
8/29/2K - Began a Page of links to Poultry and Egg Recipes. There's only a few there, but it will grow. If you have a favorite recipe, submit it and we'll get it on line!
8/28/2K - We added photo pages for the following breeds: Blue Cochin Bantams, White Cochin Bantams, Silver Sebrights and Buff Polish.
8/28/2K - Our website has been rated with the Internet Content Rating Association as Child Safe; i.e.: no sex, violence, nudity or foul (not fowl) language. Their logo has been added to our home page.
8/25/2K - Busy day!! Added the following pages of breeder pictures: Production Barred Rocks, Lemon Blue Modern Game Bantams, Silver Duckwing Old English, Lakenvelders, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Black Old English, White Silkies, also updated the Buff Japanese, Mottled Japanese, and Black Tailed White Japanese.
8/24/2K - Posted 2 pages of pictures of our new barn while it was being built and added the link to the Tour Page.
8/24/2K - Posted a page of photos of our Ameraucanas and added them to the BreedsPage.
8/24/2K - Posted a page of photos of our Rhode Island Reds and added them to the Breeds Page.
8/22/2K - Posted a page of photos of the construction of our nest boxes that are now mounted in all the barn pens.
8/21/2K - The Poultry Connection auction was moved to www.eggbay.com today. Edited the auction page to correct the links.
8/18/2K - Finally posted a Hatching Egg Price List. Please contact us before ordering to check availability!
8/18/2K - Broke up the "Our Services" Page. Added a page for "Hatching Eggs", "Help Pages", "Chicks and Adult Birds".
8/18/2K - Added page of Farm Management Help Links to the links pages.
8/17/2K - Added huge page of links to Raising Poultry Help Documents.
8/16/2K - Added links to several of the links pages. Too numerous to list each.
8/15/2K - Added page of Other Agricultural Websites to the links pages.
8/10/2K - You won't believe this! I didn't either so I took a few pictures for posterity. The Happy Egg laid on Aug 6, 2000.
8/09/2K - Added a page of Agricultural Web Search Engines and several additional Turkey links.
8/08/2K - Added links to Farm & Ranch Organizations and a number of additional hatcheries.
8/04/2K - Added a links pages for Hatcheries, Poultry Organizations, Waterfowl and Peafowl.
8/03/2K - Added a comprehensive page of web help links related to Eggs and Egg Production.
8/03/2K - Added a LONG list of Frequently Asked Poultry Questions from Mississippi State Univ.
8/02/2K - Added a page of web help links containing great information about Poultry Feed and Nutrition.
8/02/2K - Added a page containing over 50 links to information on Poultry Incubation and Brooding. These links contain all you ever wanted to know about incubating eggs and brooding chicks!
8/01/2K - Added a page of links to Exhibition / 4H Poultry information to the Links Index.
7/31/2K - Added pages of links for Poultry Diseases, Poultry Genetics and Biosecurity to the Links Index. These are VERY comprehensive lists with an enormous amount of information.
7/28/2K - Added a full page of Lavender Guinea Photos and the "big" Texas chicken photo to the home page.
7/25/2K - Added a page of Chicken Joke Links to the Links Index with links to Chicken Run Movie Sites.
7/24/2K - MAJOR CHANGE !!! - We've broken the home page up into several smaller pages linked from the home page. We did this to make the home page load faster. Let us know how you like it.
7/24/2K - Added a page of tips to help you get a good hatch with shipped eggs.
7/21/2K- We are very proud to announce that our website has been chosen to receive a "one of the best" award from Frit's Farm. Frit is the author of the "Gardening with Guineas" book featured on our Guinea Links Page. The award has been placed proudly on our Awards Page. Thanks so much, Frit!
7/19/2K - Added a page of Needlecraft Links since Justine is into Cross Stitching.
7/19/2K - Added "meta keywords", "titles" and "descriptions" on every HTML page on the website so that Search Engines can find us from any page. This is invisible to website visitors, but "screams" to search engines.
7/18/2K - Added two more photo pages of Barn Pen and Roost Construction done last week while I was on vacation.
7/17/2K - Added a page of Poultry Housing Web Links to the Links Index. Many more to come, but this is a start.
7/14/2K - Added a comprehensive Site Map listing all pages on this website with links to them.
7/14/2K - Added a page of maps to show where we're located in Lampasas County, Texas.
7/13/2K - Added a number of new entries to the Poultry Supplies Links Page.
7/12/2K- Added a page of egg Incubation and Hatching Instructions and an Incubation Trouble Shooting Chart to the website. We searched the web for the best, clearest and most complete information on the subject to post here and these are the best we found. They came from Mississippi State University and credit is given the author on each page.
7/12/2K - Started a page of Poultry Supply sources, but we've got lots more of them to add yet.
7/07/2K - Added THREE pages of photos we took at the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas on May 27, 2000.
7/07/2K - Added a page of photos of our Independence Day Fireworks display in our back yard.
7/07/2K - Added two more pages of garden photos, Garden Photos 4 and Garden Photos 5, taken 7/2/2000.
7/07/2K - Added photos of Foxy, the Pomeranian, and a history of how she came to live with us.
7/07/2K - FREE KITTENS TO A GOOD HOME. One of Justine's cats had 5 kittens on June 1, Four are available to good homes. Here's a page of cute kitten pictures, even if you don't want any !
7/05/2K - Added several photos to the Barn Electrical Wiring page showing more detail and external lighting.
7/04/2K - Added page of photos of Justine's White Chinese Geese who just hatched out 3 goslings three weeks ago.
7/04/2K - Added several photos to the craft egg page showing comparative size and color of our available eggs.
7/04/2K - Added photo page of craft egg art by Beth Leblanc of Overland Park, Kansas.
6/30/2K - Replaced the "Sunflower" Home icon on all pages with new blue buttons. Also added new buttons to all pages.
6/28/2K - Added page of local Central Texas Links - Nearby Cities and attractions.
6/27/2K - Added a page of Ratite Links.
6/27/2K - Finally put the Master Links Index on the website even though only several of the pages are active yet.
6/27/2K - Added a BIG page of Guinea Fowl links and Recommended reading on guinea fowl.
6/27/2K - We've been asked several times how to sex Coturnix Quail. We just posted a full page of Coturnix Quail pictures with three photos of pairs showing the difference between the males and females. The page also contains incubation specifics.
6/23/2K - Working feverishly on LINKS pages! Only a few are done so far. The LINKS Index isn't available from the homepage yet, but if you want to check it out and maybe make some suggestions for inclusion on the links pages, click here ->> LINKS PAGE - Under Construction
6/21/2K - Posted a page of photos of our Quail Egg Packaging.
6/20/2K - Posted page of photos of Justine mowing the pasture on 6/15 and getting toasted by the June Texas sun.
6/20/2K- We MADE IT - 100 Positive auction feedbacks, 0 Negative. Updated feedback page through 20 June 2000.
6/20/2K - Posted a page of photos taken around the farm on 4/21/2000 and 5/22/2000.
6/20/2K - Posted a page of photos and description of Pysanky art decorated eggs linked from the Craft Eggs page.
6/20/2K - Posted photo of Coturnix quail eggs on the Craft Eggs page.
6/20/2K - Added a page of photos of our Gold Sebright breeders and excess cockerels.
6/16/2K - MDK Auctions has changed hands and the link on our home page is now updated so that it connects to their NEW URL instead of the old one. Also fixed the link to view only our auctions on their site.
6/16/2K - We also added a page of photos of our Blue Splash Cochin Bantams, and added one photo to the d'Anvers page.
6/15/2K - Added a page of Texas Related Links. This could be a full time job!! The more I looked, the more I found!
6/13/2K- Another Award!! We were just informed that our website has been selected for listing in CyberTeddy's People's Choice 500 Websites! The Award has been placed on our Awards page. Thanks, Teddy!!
6/06/2K - Updated Auction Feedback as of 06 June 2000 - 85 positive feedbacks - ZERO negative feedbacks!
6/06/2K - The Poultry Help Line has now proved to be functional, so LETS ASK SOME QUESTIONS, FOLKS!
5/31/2K- We've just about got the Message Board software working. Just a little more tweaking... For now, we've named it the "Poultry Help Line" and it's available NOW for our customers and others to ask poultry or gamebird related questions or offer help to others. The software being used is the same as Tim uses on the Poultry Connection Forum. PLEASE keep in mind it is in the testing stage, so if you have trouble, email me with what happened.
5/31/2K - Added page of pictures of our Home Office taken at 2AM this morning!
5/30/2K - Added page of photos of our Black Tailed White Japanese, and a couple more baby chick pictures.
5/30/2K - We won an award! Virtuocity.com has awarded our website their Family Friendly Site Award.
5/22/2K - We now accept Visa and MasterCard via PayPal.com a free, secure service on the web. Click HERE to find out more.
5/16/2K - Another page of photos of construction done this past weekend. Barn Pens 3 - Pen Door Construction and starting on the chicken wire.
5/12/2K - Added 2 pages of photos of pen construction (May 2-5) in the new barn: Barn Pens 1 and Barn Pens 2.
5/04/2K - The link to the Local Weather got trashed somehow (gremlins)... but it's fixed now.
4/28/2K - Added page of pictures of the pens inside the new barn.
4/21/2K - Added SEVEN Photo Pages: Around the House #1, Around the House #2, Around the Farm, Our Workshop, and three pages of garden photos: Garden 1, Garden 2 and Garden 3.
4/17/2K - You can now sign up for our E-mail Newsletter and automatically get any new info about our farm, website, birds, offers, hatches, etc.
4/14/2K - Got the Guestbook working and posted it to the site.
3/29/2K - Added an html link to the Weather Channel to provide current weather and a 7 day forecast.
3/20/2K - Added Egg Packaging html page with pictures.
3/14/2K - Added Craft Egg information page and prices.
2/28/2K to 4/14/2K - Added LOTS of HTML pages of pictures of our breeds and facilities.
2/28/2K - added some web graphics and a few links to NPIP, etc.
2/22/2K - Website first placed on line with one html page.