Please read - pruning forum

[cjb]

Just so you know... we will need to prune back the goat forum fairly heavily as we have posts dating back to 2003 and need the space on the server.

I am planning to prune off everything prior to 1/1/08 if there are no objections. If there are some old threads that absolutely have to stick around, we may want to repost in a new thread or consider making a sticky out of them.

Let me know your thoughts. The pruning will likely begin tonight.

Cliff

[Buster]

Any chance you could give us a week's notice? I had planned on going all the way back to the beginning some day to learn as much as I can, but had put it off.

A week won't be long enough, but at least it's something.

[cjb]

Wow, Buster - that's alot of reading!!

I'll take a look. Not sure when they were working on the server but I might have to do this tonight.

Cliff

[Alice In TX/MO]

Go for it! We will answer questions again.

[deetu]

Wow, I remember when we were on Countryside and they told us they were closing the forum. Wonder if Chuck knew what he was starting back then. I know two other sites that branched off didn't make it.

[Buster]

Originally Posted by cjb

Wow, Buster - that's alot of reading!!

I'll take a look. Not sure when they were working on the server but I might have to do this tonight.

Cliff

I will understand if you can't. Just something I've been wanting to do. I'm slowly wading through some meat rabbit forums on Yahoo groups, and they are several thousand messages long.

But then, if you delete them, I won't feel like I have to go all the way back. You would save me a lot of reading.

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

There is just so much better information than we had back then. Figure alot of the forum was pre boer, which gave us money in the industry to learn so much more, and clout for new drugs and testing and actual information on goats, parasites, reproduction, etc... Even in my herd, my old posts on countrysidemag.com was before I copper bolused, when I used to worm monthly and gave Ivermectin Injected......when I used to feed super high protein sweet feed and grass hay, cow blocks for minerals and protein blocks during the winter, and had all the health problems I know how to treat now because of it! Vicki

[cjb]

Originally Posted by Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians

There is just so much better information than we had back then. Figure alot of the forum was pre boer, which gave us money in the industry to learn so much more, and clout for new drugs and testing and actual information on goats, parasites, reproduction, etc... Even in my herd, my old posts on countrysidemag.com was before I copper bolused, when I used to worm monthly and gave Ivermectin Injected......when I used to feed super high protein sweet feed and grass hay, cow blocks for minerals and protein blocks during the winter, and had all the health problems I know how to treat now because of it! Vicki

You sound like me when I reminisce at work: "Remember when computers were as big as armoires and communicated at 300 baud and were backed up on reel to reel".