I have wanted chickens for 20 years but never had a real opportunity until my husband and I built our empty nest home in a rural Michigan wooded area two years ago. Our winters are long and cold, summers are warm and humid with no shortage of deer ticks and biting flies. The coop location is...
My husband and I recently built our empty nest home on a 60 acre parcel of land in the upper mid-west. I have always wanted chickens and so I have been lurking on BYC for a year, researching everything chicken related, asking lots of questions as I learned how to care for chickens. I want to...