>>77816
>having chickens around is probably crazy, i have no idea what they are like yet.

Chickens fall victim to other wildlife predators very easily, such as snakes, racoons, fox, coyotes, chicken hawks, etc. You have to make sure they are in a well protected area if you allow them to move around. It is also labor intensive to take care of more than a dozen at a time. They need 50 pounds of hen scratch and 50 pounds of crumble to eat every month. You need to make sure they have access to 20+ gallons of clean water every single week. You have to go collect the eggs every other day.

Chickens are also prone to ticks, chiggers, fleas and lice. You need to get fully suited up and wear mud boots to go into the chicken coop and throw down a mix of coop refreshener, sodium bicarbonate and diatomaceous earth to keep the pests and bugs away, every other month. Worse, you need to clean the coop twice a year and it is an absolutely disgusting job. You're sweeping up dead bugs, old grain, crumble and mounds of chicken shit, having to dump it by the hundreds of pounds out in the woods or a secluded area.