Chuck chat is taking over the forum......

[baldrick]

weed and feed dude. I buy chook food instead of fertiliser. Their poo is awesome (well you know what I mean). You simply cant beat running weeds through a chicken before you sling em on the compost. My cabbages were quite frightening this year. My daughter was devastated (she hates cabbage). Each to their own. I love growing veg and have a seven bed rotation including chooks. I could bore you for hours about my fantastic onions and diabolical pumpkins not to mention my latest experiment with brassica, diatoms and slugs plus how not to attract pollinating insects to your beans by covering them with sweet peas to the point the bean plants die (ahem, moving swiftly on).Thing is though its not a disaster if my beans get sick and die...well only to me. If my chooks get sick I need to take a large pot of vaseline and bend over for advice out of a book at the vets or watch my chooks die. That is not good. This forum is a godsend.

[Nicos]

Hmmm....well...(not speaking on behalf of the other Mods)...



Personally- I'll talk* to anyone, any time, about anything, anywhere.

* I use the term 'talk' loosely ...you may have noticed

OK chuck?

[cptncrackoff]

Although my dad kept chickens when i was small, for the moment i have no room so i have almost no interest in chicken related banter, that said i will read a thread if it looks interesting...
Other than than i simply dont click!

[chris]

I had poached egg on toast for dinner last night. It was amazing.. Eggs so fresh, I was literally waiting, watching one lay before I abruptly uprooted her from the nest box, and ran in the warm, sticky egg before cracking it in a pan of simmering water.

Amazing

[SarzWix]

Chuck chat is taking over the forum......

Is it? Is it really?

Firstly, I clicked 'New Posts'. There was 2 threads from the Rule the Roost board. The rest were from General Chat, this being one of them.

Secondly, it's no longer the growing season. Posts about veggies will drop off steadily now til February/March. However, chickens don't tend to die off over winter, so people still talk about them.

Thirdly, why the chuff are you bothered if people talk about chickens, in the chicken-related area of the forum? If you want to talk about veggies, start some threads.

Fourthly, this thread has made me really cross, so I'm offski before I say something I shouldn't.

[Fruit&2veg]

Dont keep Chooks myself, But Cant for the life of me see how Posting about them or anything else in the relevant forum can bother anyone else?????????????? if your not interested, Dont read it.....SIMPLES!!!

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'll talk* to anyone, any time, about anything, anywhere.

lol, well you are a woman

[Glutton4...]

I think AP had better get out the Tin 'At!

I also think Newton was bored, and decided to be a little mischievous, hence the start of the thread.

Just my opinion.

[rustylady]

I did notice that Newton hasn't been back on this thread since he started it Durrr de duuurrrrrr
Dur de durrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Nicos]

In actual fact- the forums reflect the GYO mag
Have a look at the Contents page- 'regular features'.... Veg and fruit/recipes/chooks

Ha!...the combination seems to work exceptionally well! ....



" ...and she said to him...and he said to her...and well- do you know what????...."

[bearded bloke]

^^^^That is brilliant Nicos ^^^^

[Snadger]

I don't realy do 'chat' at all! As AP so rightly mentions though the forum and magazine are called 'Grow your Own'.
You can't really insist on a 'chooker' joining the general chit chat, just as you can't insist the general chatters join the chook chat.
Each to there own, you can either get involved with both, or one only, or like myself, with neither.
I reckon the forum just about mimicks the magazine in the amount of space and time devoted to each subject?

Thats why the magazine and the forum are a success!

[cptncrackoff]

I don't realy do 'chat' at all! As AP so rightly mentions though the forum and magazine are called 'Grow your Own'.
You can't really insist on a 'chooker' joining the general chit chat, just as you can't insist the general chatters join the chook chat.
Each to there own, you can either get involved with both, or one only, or like myself, with neither.
I reckon the forum just about mimicks the magazine in the amount of space and time devoted to each subject?

Thats why the magazine and the forum are a success!

That and the friendly Bantam...sorry, banter!

[Alison]

I was totally unaware that there was a specific chat thread in the chook section and to be honest couldn't care less. I am aware of the general chat thread and don't think I've ever clicked on it as I'm not interested - it doesn't make any difference, plenty of people do and that's fair enough. I do however get involved in other bits of chat when I want to - such as this thread. No particular logic to what I do and don't get involved in, might depend on what mood I'm in at the time. I joined mainly for the veg sections though and it will always be that section which interests me the most.

[julesapple]

No. Wait. A thought; Did Newt mean chucks or chooks?

He may have meant lovely people from North of the Watford Gap or Oop Norrth...get thee'sel back here Newton chuck, we need t'clarification.

Jules