Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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One thing I do know is that they are masters in getting financed and grants to support them. So many scam artists! I found out this guy in my town managed to finance part of his farm and business by applying for a grant to see if chickens can be fed table scraps. Seriously. He was awarded 25k to start a composting business based on collecting peoples compostable waste, break it down, feed it to his hens, and also bag up his compost and sell it. Then hens never live past a year, he gets the pullet eggs and then slaughters them as fryers and sells them too. Now this is not deep science, but his grant was considered agricultural science. Ive had chickens for almost 50 years. I wish I had the smarts to know how to get 25 k for feeding them leftovers.By the way,, these chickens would never live past a year, they were sold as fryers because they were so skinny, and the eggs had that pale yellow yolk that you see coming from hens that live in factory farms.