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How much work is it? If there’s a war or anything, getting chickens is on the top of my list!
Not a lot, make sure they have food and water, and that they are sheltered from predators at night. We have six hens and a rooster. The work consists of cleaning the coop once a week, and at the same time clean and refill the water dispenser and fill up the food reservoir. My kids do this in half an hour. We also have to pick up the eggs daily. We raised our Brahma chickens ourselves after hatching them in an incubator, and they are wonderful pets.
Edit: because we feed them a more varied diet, the eggs also taste better.
And not just because they lay eggs! Chickens may not be deep thinkers but they're still interesting to watch and interact with. They have really diverse personalities too.
So cleaning, refill food and water once a week? And the 6 days left you only pick up eggs?
Yeah, that's it.