The Barn is amazing and Horde PvP is not

I finally got around to dumping my Lumber Mill for a Barn and let me tell you ... wow. The amount of leather it produces makes me feel like it's not even worth having Skinning anymore. Basically the way it works is you go out and fight a specific type of mob, get them low enough health and then drop a trap. They disappear after they are trapped, which means you cannot both trap and skin the same mob. You turn the "trapped mob box" into the Barn as a work order and 3 hours later you get more leather than you would have gotten simply from skinning it. I have been averaging just 1 piece of leather from a single mob, though sometimes on level 100 creatures I'll get a second.

With a level 100 follower working in the Barn, I got 168 leather from 14 work orders. That's twelve leathers from each mob!! Needless to say, I am seriously considering dropping Skinning.

Something else you might have picked up on from the previous paragraph is that I specifically mentioned the follower's level in the Barn. I just learned this last week, but apparently the chance that they actually affect the output of a work order is based on their level. 50% at 90, gaining 5% every level, up to 100% at level 100.

Lastly, I have an absolutely dismal record in Battlegrounds so far. Part of this might just be me. My gear isn't exactly the bee's knees yet, I don't have any enchants on my gear, I'm playing a DPS off-spec rather than a potentially more useful healing spec, I'm out of practice, and I don't quite know all of the BGs that well yet (some of them are brand new to me).

And yet, having said all that, I cannot be the only one in that situation. It is highly unlikely that only the Horde is getting stuck with the noobs like me; surely Alliance must be getting their share of new players, too, right? So what's going on here? Is it simply a matter of the Battlegroup I'm on (battlegroups refer to what servers are linked together to play in Battlegrounds and the 'quality' of the various servers CAN cause a difference)? Does Alliance have some sort of map advantage in most of the Battlegrounds (similar to AV?)? I have read that they have an advantage in terms of racial skills and this shows up in the Arena teams (the vast majority of top teams are Alliance); does that carry over to BGs, too? Are different types of players drawn to Alliance and Horde and the Allies have an advantage from that?

I honestly have no idea. I did manage to win my first couple of BGs in WoD the other night, which was awesome. Two Isle of Conquest in a row AND the 15 minute WSG (I should really learn the name of this one). In the WSG, I managed to get the only flag cap and returned two other flags. It was a lot of fun.