A Bigger Bang for your Buck

If you want good tangible advice on chicken issues, I find WCPS gives you an amazing number of responses especially when you consider the readership.

As an experiment last night I posted an identical question on this site and on an very heavily populated one. The other site has 15 views and 0 responses. This site- 98 views and 15 very excellent responses so far.

Thank-you, everyone, for your advice.

Sue

See, now I'm wondering what this question is... lol

I have snooping to do!

Sometimes bigger isn't better. I think we work because we feel a tad more connected to each other; like we do know each other. I have been on some yahoo groups where the membership is in the thousands... it doesn't feel like a community, although it is, it feels more like reading something in a magazin--very one way communication.

I like our community.

Cathyjk wrote:Sometimes bigger isn't better. I think we work because we feel a tad more connected to each other; like we do know each other. I have been on some yahoo groups where the membership is in the thousands... it doesn't feel like a community, although it is, it feels more like reading something in a magazin--very one way communication.

I like our community.

You are so right! I think it is the smallness of this site that makes people more active. The "bigger bang for my buck" I refer to is the number of responses I have received here, cetainly not the population...though it is growing!

Sue

Ahhhh! That question! I was reading about it here this morning (I don't know enough to add anything intelligent.) Although I did see the abbreviation (HP) in an unrelated topic first and thought it stood for Horse Poo.

Yes, I like this community here too! I like the humor and conversation and close feeling.

Schipperkesue wrote:If you want good tangible advice on chicken issues, I find WCPS gives you an amazing number of responses especially when you consider the readership.

As an experiment last night I posted an identical question on this site and on an very heavily populated one. The other site has 15 views and 0 responses. This site- 98 views and 15 very excellent responses so far.

Thank-you, everyone, for your advice.

Sue

I was going to say I too thought it was amazing the responce the tapioca thread got, but then I realised that was Uno' doing!

I like the atmosphere here as well. I feel much more relaxed to be myself instead of always having to 'think' about my words to much before I type them, afraid I will hurt someone's sensitive feelings. You guys just accept me the way I am, warts and all!

I think there is more interest in serious answers and opinions here too and an appreciation for all feedback.

One of the things I really like about this forum is that it feels inclusive - everyone is welcome and they don't have to post daily or regularly to feel like they belong and are welcome to just gather info when needed.

Two other forums I dabbled in had two separate dynamics. One felt like if you weren't one of the star (popular) members, the responses you received in regards to help was weak and the other was waaayyy too many members and it was hard to get anyone's attention or advice. You'd submit a topic and by the time you checked the 'most recent topics' your's was way down the list within seconds!

I agree entirely with Cathy!

There is a tipping point (and book by the same name) where things get too big and the fine and lovely balance goes over sideways. Right now I don't think we've reached it and for now, this is all very intimate and close, like a dinner party with everyone you really like. BUt life being what it is, that will eventually change.

As it is, things are great here!

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I find the other forum overwhelmed with new members which is fine except they ask questions like I did when I was a beginner. This site tends to have more advanced questions generally or interesting questions like which colour of tapioco is best- well this site has a sense of humour that not found in the other. The questions for beginners are inportant, but I get bored with them and Uno has threatened me with big trouble if I go off to read a truck forum too often.

Oh dear, Tara, what do you think about people who both eat AND kiss their birds?

Those little cornish bantams are sweet and cuddly and I love to pick them up and kiss their funny little heads. I am also looing forward to making my culls in the spring because as I am cuddling and kissing I am also feeling up that tremendous breast!

One of my neighbour's grandsons, a man of about 20 has taken a great interest in the rabbits and ducks I have set his Opa up with. This summer I would go to visit to find the whole family, from 10 years old to 85 years old sitting on lawn chair holding rabbits and ducks. The young man was massaging the rabbit's shoulders. He looked up to me and told me he was "tenderizing the meat"!

Sue

Sue, I do the same thing. Kiss-kiss my purdy birdies, oh my, my, what nice drumsticks you have...

Besides many of the excellent reasons already listed above, I love that I feel free to be myself here. (warts and all, lol)

Hey, you have warts too, cool!

..."OH you EAT your birds!"...or "OH you KISS your birds!"

Isn't a kiss just a taste of what is to come anyways......

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I have people give me weird looks when I tell them I just came in from squeezing my turkey's breasts...

silkiebantam wrote: Although I did see the abbreviation (HP) in an unrelated topic first and thought it stood for Horse Poo.

Oh girl, you maka me smile!! I actually made a noise, perhaps it was a snort, smiling again, it came out of my mouth, so I think it was a giggle, smiling again. That was so freakin' funny!! Thanks, these things are good for first thing in the morning. Now if only I had made some sponge candy, like I said I was going to, then I would be even more smiley.

I love the atmosphere of this forum for surely, just as so many have said. If find it a very friendly place to hang out, and seem to get more responses to my posts here than there or there. But doesn't mattter, hanging out all over the place is good too. I have friends all over the world and . I wonder where life would be without the internet and my forum friends? Surely I would be a sad and lonely gal, smiling that big smile. Beautiful days to us all, CynthiaM.

I'm glad you laughed! I did when I realized. When I first read HP it was in the Bubble Tea (tapioca) Post. I read the Hydrogen Peroxide post later.

Schipperkesue wrote:Oh dear, Tara, what do you think about people who both eat AND kiss their birds?

Those little cornish bantams are sweet and cuddly and I love to pick them up and kiss their funny little heads. I am also looing forward to making my culls in the spring because as I am cuddling and kissing I am also feeling up that tremendous breast!

One of my neighbour's grandsons, a man of about 20 has taken a great interest in the rabbits and ducks I have set his Opa up with. This summer I would go to visit to find the whole family, from 10 years old to 85 years old sitting on lawn chair holding rabbits and ducks. The young man was massaging the rabbit's shoulders. He looked up to me and told me he was "tenderizing the meat"!

Sue

Thats how the Japanese do it to make Kobe Beef! I'm sure it would work great on rabbits too! Maybe I'll try it on a cull rooster this year!!!
Or..., I can take him into a message shop in the city and ask them if they'd mind giving my cock a message!

OK, now I am really confused. What topic is this again? Tapioca? HP? Massage?

Perhaps Confucious was right! After all, Confucious says,

"He who strays off topic invites confusion into his life."

and

"Tapicoa leads to dessert envy."

Sue