New in northern Michigan

[pollitos2013]

Hi everyone - anybody up here in Leelanau County - we are new to chickens and we just moved into a house on 10 acres.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Welcome to BYC!

Happy you joined!

 

[drumstick diva]

if you go to "where am I, where are you," in the social thread you can locate and post on your state thread. There are likely to be chicken folks in your area. The Michigan thread moves fast and has some very nice people on it.

 

[sumi]

Welcome to BYC

Glad you joined us!

 

[write2caroline]

Glad you joined us!
Caroline from Florida

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan

Hope you stop by the Michigan thread and say Hi - there are a few folks down your way.

 

[Teri Metcalf]

Greetings from College Station, Texas. I'll bet you find a number of chicken families in your area on the Michigan thread.

 

[micah O]

 

[liz9910]

Welcome to BYC!

 

[pollitos2013]

We are getting really excited about getting baby chicks in two weeks. Now a teacher at school says it is too cold here to put the brooder in the garage, she says we have to put it in the house! Now, I really don't want them in the house... My plan was to build a cardboard brooder with cardboard then paper twel on the floor and cardboard walls with bales of straw around the outside of three sides for insulation and the lightbulb in the reflector thing hanging down in the middle from a chain over a rafter to get it to the right temp. Will this be o.K.? All advice welcome