Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Lots of new names coming up, joining PTO, but very few new Introductions...
Please don't be shy, we are all curious and would love to know what you are doing poultry-wise and otherwise?
This is a group of friendly folks and we really like to hear about other people who suffer from the same affliction. :)
There is safety in numbers

Thanks OC!

It would be nice if the "oldies" posted more too!

I'm Frances, guess I'm an oldie? From the old site although I haven't been on my poultry forums in a while
I'm focusing my efforts this year for exhibition in the white silkies white Cochins, white showgirls and buff NN's. growing out my fall show birds now.

Inbetween poultry shows we try in squeeze in some carriage driving shows too lol it's a pretty busy schedule but we love it!

So glad to be back!

well, i guess i'm an "oldie" too. LOL.
i have no clue when i got "into" chickens. sometime in the last 15 years. got a "snackpack" of mixed layers from freys-all long since gone. and it's all been downhill from there. now i breed heritage and non-heritage breeds, and am working on new blood for welbar and rhodebars (from the founder breeds, not from established stock-starting with the welsummer and barred rock and rhode island reds, selective breeding for traits/form/colour etc etc). have way too many projects (like black/blue gold ameraucanas) on the go, as well as a group of layers for bug control. have a few turkeys, and a couple horses, a couple dogs, 3 or 4 cats depending on the day (i know of 3 that i actively HAVE, 4rth is a wander in and out black cat from somewhere). we crop share 160-something acres of cash crop, grow all our own vegetables for the freezer for the winter....and my hubby (poultry_admin) and i (along with Al-thegawd) adopted running the board when the old PSO was closed. i'm a geneticist/molecular biologist and embryologist by training, was headed to vet school way back when, they didn't want me and i couldn't afford the reapplication fees, so i ended up teaching at the vet school for a few years while i was doing graduate school LOL. Now i take the best of both worlds by trying to rederive or make new blood for some breeds, improve my lines of newer breeds and am hooked..completely. and have just recently contemplated starting to show in pursuit of master breeder accreditation-my wheaten marans lines have done well in show for people i have sold to...just not sure i am disciplined enough to bathe a chicken. in my "other life" i run a research lab at a university studying neurodegenerative diseases. so that's my story in a nutshell. I'm a chicken addict, and i'm more than prepared to admit it-oh, and i have a sportsman hatcher and incubator being picked up today, because 3 hovabators isn't good enough anymore.....LOL. hook, line and sinker.

Kathy, I think your story deserves a separate thread, I wouldn't want anybody to miss it.

i think we have another thread on the what made you come to chickens and what made you stay....? LOL
hopefully someone new will take pity and post their better story here as well-because honestly, mine is pretty normal when you think about it...lol

I think it would be pretty hard to beat your story, just wanted to encourage the newcomers to introduce themselves, when I realized that the people who are responding to my hatching eggs ad in the Classifieds, just signed up, but never posted and some of them sound mighty interesting. :)

Like OC said!!!! stop by! introduce yourselves! we are all learning and happy to help and share!
(and if i can do it, anyone can! LOL)

and we never stop learning either. thats the fun part. the more I learn the more I realize I dont know LOL.