I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade or anything but
... "OTs welcome" means Old Timers welcome. Altho straying off topic seems to be allowed on this thread, and pretty well tolerated by most, lol. (I think BDM was trying to encourage knowledgeable and long-time chicken people to chime in on this thread
, since 2 other active threads that had a lot of OT input were locked not that long ago).