Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[The Moonshiner]

That is true for sure. However, it is really like walking through a graveyard at midnight around here now for the most part. Not that big a deal since I am really busy with things, but I miss coming in and there being some good craziness going on. It is enough to drive a person to drink almost.

Nothing to do with your drinking or not.
The forum is dying.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Sorry! I am just seeing this. I have been away for a little while; within hours of Mulan needing to be given a spa treatment, my 14 year old cat started showing signs of illness, 2 other chickens started limping, my roosters started having attitude problems with everyone and everything, and the kittens keep trying to kill my crabs.

I found an egg under her roosting spot, and she is acting very chicken-y again. She is still limping, but she is moving more readily now. The other 2 chickens have stopped limping, and my cat is finally starting to get better. After this past week+, I want to stop adulting for just a single hour before I lose my mind.

 

[tripletfeb]

So I was going down the musical rabbit hole tonight and this one reminded me of @bill3607

Can you guess why?
Here's a hint

Spoiler

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Love this song

Sorry! I am just seeing this. I have been away for a little while; within hours of Mulan needing to be given a spa treatment, my 14 year old cat started showing signs of illness, 2 other chickens started limping, my roosters started having attitude problems with everyone and everything, and the kittens keep trying to kill my crabs.

I found an egg under her roosting spot, and she is acting very chicken-y again. She is still limping, but she is moving more readily now. The other 2 chickens have stopped limping, and my cat is finally starting to get better. After this past week+, I want to stop adulting for just a single hour before I lose my mind.

Glad they are all doing better

Nothing to do with your drinking or not.
The forum is dying.

It's true. Been overrun by the children again

 

[ShrekDawg]

@KayisforKale

 

[The Moonshiner]

It's true. Been overrun by the children again

But also lots of adults, good members have either became drastically less active or left completely.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Stuff changes. Not always in the ways we'd like. It's also cyclical. There will always be a small core of folks for whom this is their livelihood and they will be around (if not always active.) The hobbyists and enthusiasts will come and go over time as the popularity of all things "hobby farm" (for lack of a better way to term it) bubbles up in pop culture.

 

[bill3607]

She may have stabbed him in the back, or shoulder. and I think he expected to meet up with her in hell, maybe not from the stab wound but just eventually. But, that is pure speculation, and is certainly debatable.

You know Stab in the back, or was it shoulder, might be symbolic. Or, at least if it was the back.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Stuff changes. Not always in the ways we'd like. It's also cyclical.

If this is true then BYC is making wide circles because in all the time I've been here I've seen a lot of changes but it's never become full circle. Just a long gradual morph from what it used to be.

There will always be a small core of folks for whom this is their livelihood and they will be around (if not always active.)

What's this small core you speak of? What do you mean by their "livelihood"?

The hobbyists and enthusiasts will come and go over time as the popularity of all things "hobby farm" (for lack of a better way to term it) bubbles up in pop culture.

I agree but seems there's more going then coming.
I found BYC more then a decade ago. Like many internet searches always popped up something BYC. I lurked and learned. Then burned through a couple accounts coming and going myself. Then at some point I noticed this forum had gotten active, really active. I hate forums where they only get a few new posts a day.
When I joined this place was full of people that knew chickens. Everything chickens. I could hop on and learn things. I could interact with people that were out showing chickens. I could browse subjects about building coops, DIY feeders, waters, systems and ideas that were tried and true. Things that were tried and failed and why.
Genetics and hatching OMG I've always been into chicken genetics but I was home. So many members that knew more then me and was just as fanatic about it. I shared so much and learned so much.
Hatching..... love the whole incubator concept. Thinking outside the box. Homemade incubators or tweaking existing ones.
Basically if you liked chickens you could pick your interests and pick brains like no where else on the net.
Now look around. Like the way of the world it's just a social media outlet for the most part here. I get it. I adapted in a lot of ways to that and it's not completely bad but the core of why I became a member and why I stayed has been lost.
There are very few people that have extensive knowledge in so many areas or expertise in certain areas as there was when I first started here.
That's a shame and as BYC has shifted they've continued to leave and few others join.
It is what it is but it is. No PR spin needed. I miss the old BYC. The CHICKEN forum.
When people say it's the children coming in. I get that but to me it's more of new chicken enthusiasts. Lots of people coming here to ask questions and to learn but from who?
When the knowledgeable people are gone this place may as well be a facebook chicken group. That's the deep issue for me here and no one seems to care. Again I miss the old days.
As far as the forum dying.... people can PR spin that too but it's true. BYC became a social monster but social monsters die and new ones take over.
Anyone still on MySpace?
Look at numbers here. There's the thread about getting lurkers to join. Go back and compare. At any given time the online now members are less then half of what they were just a year or two ago. Everyone is noticing threads aren't hopping like they used to.
Sure some will still be around and some will come and go. For me I'm just waiting for things to come back around to where this place gets back to being what it once once..... a real chicken forum.
Will it happen?

And look people think Moony's not deep....

 

[azurbanclucker]

If this is true then BYC is making wide circles because in all the time I've been here I've seen a lot of changes but it's never become full circle. Just a long gradual morph from what it used to be.

I don't think it will ever come full circle. It's more like a wave, peaks and valleys but always going forward.

What's this small core you speak of? What do you mean by their "livelihood"?

There are a number of people on BYC who are homesteading/small scale farming or are employed in similar fashion. It's not a "these poultry / livestock are pets", it's "we are making a living raising this stock or we are relying on it as a food source." They are using BYC as a resource in a very different way than the social chicken tenders who hit the site for 1 or 2 things and go back to their desk jobs.

I agree but seems there's more going then coming.
I found BYC more then a decade ago. Like many internet searches always popped up something BYC. I lurked and learned. Then burned through a couple accounts coming and going myself. Then at some point I noticed this forum had gotten active, really active. I hate forums where they only get a few new posts a day.
When I joined this place was full of people that knew chickens. Everything chickens. I could hop on and learn things. I could interact with people that were out showing chickens. I could browse subjects about building coops, DIY feeders, waters, systems and ideas that were tried and true. Things that were tried and failed and why.
Genetics and hatching OMG I've always been a chicken genetics but I was home. So many members that knew more then me and was just as fanatic about it. I shared so much and learned so much.
Hatching..... love the whole incubator concept. Thinking outside the box. Homemade incubators or tweaking existing ones.
Basically if you liked chickens you could pick your interests and pick brains like no where else on the net.
Now look around. Like the way of the world it's just a social media outlet for the most part here. I get it. I adapted in a lot of ways to that and it's not completely bad but the core of why I became a member and why I stayed has been lost.
There are very few people that have extensive knowledge in so many areas or expertise in certain areas as there was when I first started here.
That's a shame and as BYC has shifted they've continued to leave and few others join.
It is what it is but it is. No PR spin needed. I miss the old BYC. The CHICKEN forum.
When people say it's the children coming in. I get that but to me it's more of new chicken enthusiasts. Lots of people coming here to ask questions and to learn but from who?
When the knowledgeable people are gone this place may as well be a facebook chicken group. That's the deep issue for me here and no one seems to care. Again I miss the old days.
As far as the forum dying.... people can PR spin that too but it's true. BYC became a social monster but social monsters die and new ones take over.
Anyone still on MySpace?
Look at numbers here. There's the thread about getting lurkers to join. Go back and compare. At any given time the online now members are less then half of what they were just a year or two ago. Everyone is noticing threads aren't hopping like they used to.
Sure some will still be around and some will come and go. For me I'm just waiting for things to come back around to where this place gets back to being what it once once..... a real chicken forum.
Will it happen?

And look people think Moony's not deep....

I 100% get you here. My long and winding response is far too depressing for BYC though. It's not just here that this is happening. I blame twitter and tik tok, but really I blame the mindset that we as humans are a product to be bought and sold by marketing companies. Wall-E and Idiocracy were not supposed to be documentaries...

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

If this is true then BYC is making wide circles because in all the time I've been here I've seen a lot of changes but it's never become full circle. Just a long gradual morph from what it used to be.


What's this small core you speak of? What do you mean by their "livelihood"?


I agree but seems there's more going then coming.
I found BYC more then a decade ago. Like many internet searches always popped up something BYC. I lurked and learned. Then burned through a couple accounts coming and going myself. Then at some point I noticed this forum had gotten active, really active. I hate forums where they only get a few new posts a day.
When I joined this place was full of people that knew chickens. Everything chickens. I could hop on and learn things. I could interact with people that were out showing chickens. I could browse subjects about building coops, DIY feeders, waters, systems and ideas that were tried and true. Things that were tried and failed and why.
Genetics and hatching OMG I've always been into chicken genetics but I was home. So many members that knew more then me and was just as fanatic about it. I shared so much and learned so much.
Hatching..... love the whole incubator concept. Thinking outside the box. Homemade incubators or tweaking existing ones.
Basically if you liked chickens you could pick your interests and pick brains like no where else on the net.
Now look around. Like the way of the world it's just a social media outlet for the most part here. I get it. I adapted in a lot of ways to that and it's not completely bad but the core of why I became a member and why I stayed has been lost.
There are very few people that have extensive knowledge in so many areas or expertise in certain areas as there was when I first started here.
That's a shame and as BYC has shifted they've continued to leave and few others join.
It is what it is but it is. No PR spin needed. I miss the old BYC. The CHICKEN forum.
When people say it's the children coming in. I get that but to me it's more of new chicken enthusiasts. Lots of people coming here to ask questions and to learn but from who?
When the knowledgeable people are gone this place may as well be a facebook chicken group. That's the deep issue for me here and no one seems to care. Again I miss the old days.
As far as the forum dying.... people can PR spin that too but it's true. BYC became a social monster but social monsters die and new ones take over.
Anyone still on MySpace?
Look at numbers here. There's the thread about getting lurkers to join. Go back and compare. At any given time the online now members are less then half of what they were just a year or two ago. Everyone is noticing threads aren't hopping like they used to.
Sure some will still be around and some will come and go. For me I'm just waiting for things to come back around to where this place gets back to being what it once once..... a real chicken forum.
Will it happen?

And look people think Moony's not deep....

Wow, that is the most in-depth post I have read from you. Now I feel ashamed of not being one of the smart ones... I try for advice here, but in the end, I learn my "tried and true" ways just by experimenting with others' suggestions, and by my own ideas. I would have loved to see BYC as a pure chicken forum. I love my birds. Yes, they are my pets; but they also offer me food in the way of eggs, and they offer me a way of mental relaxation that I rarely get elsewhere in my life.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand the whole genetics bit, though.

This is also a reply, kind of, to @azurbanclucker.