Hi everyone. I just started BYC today. I don't know why I didn't join earlier. I have been visiting you all since April. Even before I got my girls. I live in Bay City Mi. We just bought our home in May and my only real criteria was I wanted enough room for chickens. I love them so much. They are just as loving as the dogs and cats. My indoor girl Gabby will even hop on the bed and take naps with me and the dogs and cats. She always sits on the couch with us and watches TV. I saw some people say that they haven't been letting their chickens out because its so cold. I open the coop every morning at 8 am when I feed them and 95% of the time they come right outside and only go back in to lay and at night. Even today, we got a ton of snow last night, no school today, and they are all out in it. Spent most of the day laying on the porch in the sun.