For daily tasks, all you really need to do is collect the eggs. If you have a big enough feeder and water supply, you can just top those up once a week.
You do have to lock them up at night and release them in the morning, but that is covered by something like the devices here: https://chickenguard.co.uk/shop/
This is in the UK where the main predators are foxes.
I don't know why the author is chasing his chickens back to the pen. They normally want to go back to the coop to roost at night on their own.
For daily tasks, all you really need to do is collect the eggs. If you have a big enough feeder and water supply, you can just top those up once a week.
You do have to lock them up at night and release them in the morning, but that is covered by something like the devices here: https://chickenguard.co.uk/shop/
This is in the UK where the main predators are foxes.
I don't know why the author is chasing his chickens back to the pen. They normally want to go back to the coop to roost at night on their own.