Rural Gardening: keeping chickens, 1 by crockny

crockny wrote:
I've never kept chickens so don't have a clue ... but our house is next to a lot of woods and protected park land and we have coyotes and bears around -- the bears come through the yard regularly to eat our apples... I would like to have chickens running around the yard and put them in a chicken house at night ... is this unfeasible with this kind of critter activity around? Also we get the occasional rattlesnake in the yard (big ones) ...