Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[BackyardFarmMom]

BioN...
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Again we have gotten some more friends!

 

[ladyrsanti]

I'm so grateful for all the new members from SE Michigan. Like I said a while back, I wouldn't have even known people kept chickens down there so it's good to see more coming out of the woodwork.

 

[SillyChicken]

I place both deer and steelhead carcasses in my chicken's run and it is amazing how much they can pick from the bones. I also feed the hard fat and all the trimmings from my deer. Fortunately they will be getting some today and more tomorrow when I butcher.

Awesome Opa, congrats!

 

[NovaAman]

dagnab hawk just took out my buff partridge silkie chick. FROM UNDER THE THICKET! Small hawk too... guess it was smart enough to go after the smallest bird... I hear the commotion, and ran out the door. The thing is, the neighbor is outside, close by, building a run onto his coop. He coop is less than 50 feet away from where the hawk got the chicken! So, it must have been one very desparately hungry hawk to risk coming so close to all the people that are over there, all over the yards... Amazing...

 

[BioNatural]

BioN...
You can select many quotes by clicking MULTI for each one
Then on the last one you would like to quote click QUOTE
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Again we have gotten some more friends!

Thank you, good to know! Sorry I just filled up like a whole page. I'll have to move on to figuring out putting some of those animated gifs in the messages too..

 

[kimmie6067]

Here's my Chickerville, the coop on the left is new my sons Jersey Giants, I couldn't get him to stay out from under the coop, the coop is two foot off the ground, he's a big boy. He is a blue but molted and now he is darker more black then blue. I hope he stops being so shy.







My Icelandic roo I got at CS, wrong date on picture



Another Icelandic roo so colorful


Icelandic hen (lil miss) squaring off with my EE hen (Cookie), she's finally laying small off white eggs, I love my Icee's

 

[chickflick]

to the new folks!!
Nova, sorry about your chick. Dang hawks.
Beautiful day out. Why am I inside cleaning??

 

[NovaAman]

My camera does the same thing every time I change the batteries! Goes back to 12-01-05... Such an annoying thing to reset dates, so I don't bother, and I have it set to not have the dates on the pictures.

I like the second Icelandic best.

 

[Elyssia001]

Welcome to all the new people to the thread! Now I do not feel so alone as a newbie =) I live in the downriver area, south of detroit. I don't have any chickens myself yet, we rent the place we live now, but my hubby and I will be moving in a year and I want to learn as much as possible before we settle on a home. Esp about ordinances for the various cities. If you are considering getting chickens, you'll want to research the Michigan Right To Farm act, especially if you find out the city you live in has ordinances against chickens. If you sell what your chickens produce, then you can own chickens anywhere in the state of Michigan, regardless of city ordinances. However, you may be looking at a long legal battle if your city officials have some misguided, ill conceived notion about chickens.


Has anyone built their own root-cellar? I am adding it to my list of "things to do to future home" and was wondering on the process? Do you need a permit to dig one? How do you keep the roof up?

 

[RaZ]

Merely citing the MRTFA is not enough defense for many people. Some of the local governing bodies seem to think that state law doesn't apply to them. It can turn in to a long, drawn out fight. I'm at 10 months and counting.

I'm working on a list of communities within Wayne County and their poultry ordinances. Some "rules" are pretty absurd. Like the one town that allows chickens but has a second rule that says you can't collect the eggs.