they easy to care for?

Food, water, somewhere safe from predators at night, that’s all they really need

you have a big backyard where you can set them free safely

While it’s not ideal, chickens can live and enjoy a shockingly small space for the majority of their day. Most coops come with a small run area intended to be where your chickens live most of the time, being let out to free range for an hour or two in the evenings is a common way of raising chickens safely while gone from home (like when at work)

Personally: my area doesn’t have chicken predators I need to worry about (not for adults, anyway) so we raise the young chicks inside in a brooder area we have set up and when they get full-feathered they’re ready to go outside with the other girls. We made a pen for our goats that the chickens ended up taking over so we bolt a new roost bar in there and the chickens do their pecking order stuff, and we’ve got more eggs than we can handle rn, though they’re scattered throughout our yard lol

Bag of food that lasts a week is 12 bucks for me, I have ~14 layers at 4-6 eggs a week for each bird. Water is the other ongoing expense but it barely registers on my bill compared to human use

The whole format of stretching content to reach some arbitrary monetization benchmark is unwatchable to me.

Good thing there’s plenty of content that isnt that format on the site