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Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:21 am
by poultry_admin
:birthday:

:PTO:

:party:

:smilewithrooster:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:35 am
by TomK
Has it been a whole year?... Holy smokes!!!!....break out the bubbly... :iheartpto: :HappyDance: :beer2:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:41 am
by argosgirl
Yay! :iheartpto: :HappyDance: :stars:

:birthday:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:01 am
by Flat Rock Farm
:stars: HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAY PTO :stars:

Wow were did a year go?? Thank you to Kathy and Martin for putting up this forum in place to PSO and for all the Admins that make this such a nice, friendly, fun and informative forum :grouphug:

:birthday: :HappyDance: :party: :beer2:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:25 am
by ross
A very happy bday to you all on PTO the best forum out there made up of good folk . Many more .Special thanks to those who put & keep it together , contests & all . Luck

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:07 am
by Brebis
Hippo-birdies-two ewes PTO!

Sorry, a silly birthday greeting a friend introduced me to that seems some how apprpropriate! Except maybe the hippo but hey who knows what the year will bring!

Thanks to all who have made this such a wonderful place to come!

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:31 am
by kenya
Happy birthday PTO. Great group of people! :birthday: :smilewithrooster: :number one:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:33 am
by WLLady
Happy birthday PTO!!! Many many thanks to poultry_admin and thegawd!!!
And KB and OC!!! And Troy (modern17)!!!
And to all of you!!! You guys-all the folks that make this forum what it is-are wonderful! PTO has turned out better than we admins could have dreamed because all of you make it simply amazing!!!

Look at what we did all in the first year! We have a wonderful informative forum. We have had our first online show! We have picture of the month contests! Poultry_admin posted stats somewhere earlier-we have 650 members! We have 650xmany chickens!!! We have not had to ban anyone for behaviour! We also have managed to avoid spam somehow too!!!! Tons of amazing threads and tons of amazing advice and conversations!!!

Thank you everyone for a wonderful first year of PTO!!!!
:chicken_dance: :number one: :drunk:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:39 am
by Home Grown Poultry
Happy Birthday Y'all!!! I cant believe its been a year all ready, but it's been a great one! and thats because of everyone on here, not just the mods admins and the creator! ALL OF YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! heres to many more! :beer2:

Happy Birthday PTO

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:44 am
by poultry_admin
One year...:PTO: :party:

What have we done?
I think we have successfully transitioned from PSO to PTO. Thanks Erin!
The community is GREAT. Open minded for other opinions, not afraid to say their piece and everyone is super friendly! You guys are:

:number one:

And don't forget our great admins Al and WLLady!!
:smilewithrooster:


The year in stats
They just blow me away! I had no idea that we would be that active.

32,600 posts! :banana:

650 members

99,500 sessions (first yellow area is when the weather got nicer people spend more time with the chickens; spike was a company in the US trying to "sell" their product; bump at the end is our online show :sSig_number1: )
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930,000 page views (bump at the end is our online show)
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We had a true canadian reach (with a focus on Ontario obviously)
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We uploaded 4.9Gb of pictures and can keep going for another year before we need to consider some changes. So keep them pictures coming!! :type: