Glad to hear you are doing better. I would like to have fresh eggs, but I don’t really want to mess with the effort, so I get them locally when I can, and otherwise make do with the grocery store crap.
Not much trouble, except when the hen house needs shoveling out. That, of course, gets tilled into the garden, along with the rabbit manure.
About 5 minutes, max, to give them their leftovers, refill their trough as needed, and throw a gallon of corn over the fence for the wild turkeys; and another 5 or less to pick up the eggs and check/refill the waterer once or twice a week. In really frigid weather, I can add another 5 minutes deicing the waterer with the propane blower heater.
I get about a gallon can a day of veggie waste from work, plus another couple of quarts or so of leftover scrambled eggs, sausage & bacon when we change over from breakfast to lunch. Those birds get a high protein diet, rich in oils; keeps their feathers thick and shiny. LOL