So, we’ve been a crazy Chicken family for a year and I can’t believe how fast the time has gone!  It all began last Spring, as we were studying birds for our Nature Studies.  Our good friends invited us over to see their baby chicks, and, well…  See, our children have learned that they can get almost anything with these simple words:  “…but it goes with our unit study!”  Uh huh – and that’s how an adventurous Mom ends up incubating 48 eggs the next week.  And a bewildered Dad stands by insisting that ‘we aren’t keeping any…’ We started with absolutely no knowledge of raising chicks or hens.  And…