Chickens are pretty easy, and you have the benefits of the eggs. We probably put in 5 mins a day max, and maybe twice a year clean out the coop.coop. One thing is that we only have a coop with room for four chickens, and we probably should have gotten a bigger coop and get more chickens, because it really doesn't any more time to tend to 10 chickens than 4, and you'd get alot more eggs for it.