Over the past year, my wife and I tried our hand at raising backyard chickens for eggs. We had a lot of fun, and learned a lot along the way, until our little chicken experiment came to an abrupt end shortly before the new year. A predator (our research leads us to believe it was a raccoon or weasel) found a way inside the coop one night and killed the entire brood. Since we don't plan to immediately acquire new chickens, I have decided to shut-down the website I started to chronicle our…
