Is it just me?

[KimChick]

This isn't animal.related but rather 'expert' related...as many of you may know I live off the electrical grid...and i like it, but that's another road for another time...in my research to getting off the grid on my new home, one of the things I was interested in was solar hot water...i went to a local 'green' expo and engaged one of the exhibitors in a q &a...he went on and on about how I should be doing this and that and if i wasn't on board with the 'green' revolution and his products in particular then well I was going to be left behind and he didnt have time for anyone like that...that particular individual got some press (because he was quite good at getting attention) when he embarked on building one of those seriously environmental homes...all the gadgets, all the new ideas... That was 6 years ago...I'm off grid...his house doesn't work...not the heating system, not the electrical and certainly not the hot water...can I say 'WHEW'?....

Side Note and Off Topic: Living off grid, as you do, you will be ready to avoid a lot of the 2030 imminent issues. I'm thinking that the authors of youth novels that are based on dystopian societies can see what's coming, or wrote about possibilities from times past.
Have a look at this Agenda 21; the 5 minute video is very good. It even has a slide of linguistic engineering words and phrases that are often used these days.

[Skinny rooster]

Maybe I'm just moody because it's fall and I work in retail lol.

I'm becomng increasingly frustrated with people who go buy a few birds....read a bunch of stuff off Google or BYC or FB and suddenly become experts and start throwing out advice Willy Nilly to other unsuspecting flock owners. I know NOTHING about poultry compared to most so I do read a lot and follow a lot of sites and discussions but unless I have some specific EXPERIENCE that I feel may be useful I keep my mouth shut and hope to learn along with the original poster. I also don't just take some stranger's advice (or even worse -google) as gospel.
There's folks on here that I would absolutely listen to. Folks that have more poultry knowledge in their pinky finger than I do in my entirety. Outside of that...no trust. I doubt this is isolated to poultry but I find it annoying and offensive even.

Rant over.

It's not you Happy, this gets under my skin as well. Nothing irritates me more than hearing someone at a sale dispensing false information because they kept chickens over the summer and now they are an expert. I have been doing this for years and I find that I still learn something new all the time, it's what keeps this hobby interesting for me. The one that I hate the most is some journalist type that keeps chickens for a year or two and then writes a how to book!