Today we launch the new and hopefully improved poultry.ie and we welcome you to explore it! This new design will enable us to provide better, and more features for you, our community, to enjoy. Here are is the low down of the new website:

Design – Well as you have probably have noticed we look a bit different than before. We think the colours work well together and overall the navigation is more user friendly.

The Community Forum – Our forum has been upgraded to a better system which has a blast of features for us to use. We wanted to show our appreciation to everyone who used our old forum and helped build a community there so we introduced a badge only available to anyone who registered on our old forum.

We call it the ‘Poultry Ireland Veteran’ rank. It will appear under your username in the forum. It is one of the three ranks we have. When you sign up for the new forum please use the same email address and username you used to sign up on the old forum, this way I will know which users to give the rank to.

One of the other ranks we provide is the ‘Poultry Ireland Supporter’ rank. This rank will enable you to use other features not available to normal registered users, eg. Avatars, have a signature etc. You can achieve this rank by giving a minimun donation to Poultry Ireland to help pay for hosting and system updates. This is not available yet, but should be within the next few days.

For more information about Ranks please check out the Forum here.

Marketplace - Yes, the day is coming when we will finally open the Marketplace where people can buy and sell poultry. Though we need to test it out on this domain before we can release it. Bear with us!

These are just a few of the changes that we have done, if you have any comments or feedback on the new look please leave a comment below!