When I was a child,we raised a lot of chickens in our back yard 怎么翻译后半句?

we raised a lot of chickens in our back yard
我们养了许多的鸡在 后院
解析：
raise [reiz]在这里做及物动词：翻译为 ：养育
vt.提高；筹集；养育；升起
vi.上升
n.高地；上升；加薪
[ 过去式raised 过去分词raised 现在分词raising ]