Might be a good time to revisit traditions of the past.
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Wish I could do this! Impossible where I live but would be great if I lived somewhere more suitable.
Don't know anything about chickens but I have a suspicion that it is not so easy as having one of the kids spend a few minutes per day. Would be nice to have fresh eggs though.
Accurate, but not as hard as people think.
Like anything we do, there is a bit of nuance to take care of chickens. We have racoons and hedgehogs here to contend with, it also gets cold enough we may have to provide a heating lamp. Your situation might differ.
In the end, once you get established its not that hard. At the very least the family will get an education on where eggs come from, and what it takes to keep birds alive.
Raccoons can be a real problem. Your coop needs to be raccoon proof which is harder than it sounds. They can figure out simple latches and can pull apart chicken wire to get in the coop. A layer of hardware cloth around ground level mitigates this.