Looking after chickens really isn't that fucking hard. You have a coop with a sleeping space off the ground, and a nesting box in the coop filled with sawdust/straw where they lay their eggs, and that's fucking it. After like two days of you bullying them into the coop at sundown, they learn to put themselves to sleep when it gets dark, and then all you gotta do is bolt the door at sunset to keep predators out. You unbolt the door in the morning to let them out to scavenge, make sure the feeders are topped up (presumably, their weird rocky soil provides enough grit you don't even need a grit feeder), and then chuck corn/kitchen scraps for them in the afternoon. Done.
I've got chickens, they've been through subzero temperatures and sure, they're not wild about it, but they keep laying, the eggs don't freeze, and the worst they do is huddle in the coop and yell at the snow (because that's what chickens do with shit they don't like, they scream at it). This is fucking basic animal husbandry, all you need is a small shed with off-the-ground perches and an off-the-ground box lined with sawdust/straw for laying. And chickens lay in the mornings ime, so why the fuck is there even time for the eggs to freeze if you're collecting regularly at noon????? I'm not some PETA retard, but chickens are so damn easy to look after, and it makes me fucking mad that these assholes can't even manage that.