Here are a couple of forums that I frequent with with monster user bases and gargantuan post and thread counts:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/http://forum.ev1servers.net/I work in the telecommunications industry and I have my own software and webhosting business as well. I manage the machines that host websites. I have installed and administered phpBB, vbulletin, ikonboard, ubb, and many other bulletin board systems.
This stuff is what I do for a living.
maybe it should be enlarged to encompass different aspects
Do you have something more in mind than just adding headings or Categories to post under?
I regards to Angela\'s post that John quoted, I have tons of ideas beyond just enlarging the forums and categorizing them. Here are just a few ideas that could be implemented for the site:
1) A \"members only\" section. A place where paid membership users get access to within the site.
2) An email mailing list
3) Interactive Photo Galleries
4) Realtime chat rooms
5) Live news feeds
6) Classifieds
7) Vendor, breeder, and subscriber directories.
Interactive Event calendars
9) Ecommerce / Shopping Cart
10) Paid vendor advertisements (ad space ... In some cases, it makes sense but I don\'t always like the obnoxious ones that are distracting and other times, I just want a totaly ad free site).
But back to the topic at hand, the forum itself can be expanded to handle more than just chicken discussions. Spinoffs of the byproducts, like garden fertilizer and the other more bizarre alternative uses of chicken manure such as jewelry, paint, yard ornaments, and such.
We can even have discussions of the obvious benefits that a crowing rooster has on noise pollution...if one rooster will do then why not have 47???
There are endless possibilites in the HowTo guides such as getting back at an annoying neighbor by tying a rooster under their bedroom window or my alltime favorite, the notorious \"present\" left at their doorstep.
Come on people! Use your imagination, let the juices flow, stretch out those creative bones and lets make this site one to be envied!!!!