For you guys who have chickens. Is it a lot of work. Is it worth it? I’m thinking of getting some for myself. How many chickens would be sufficient for one person?

6 will be plenty...then you can sell some eggs to pay for the feed

You can honestly make it as complicated and hard or as easy as you want . Most complicate the heck out of it . My main advice would be to look at your property, your conditions , how much work you'd want to put in daily / weekly and go from there .

Me personally I'm lazy , I don't like cleaning coops , don't like how most of the time when it rains, pens turn into big stinking mud pits and I didn't want a permanent structure, so went with a tractor takes maybe min our of our days everyday. Most work is moving it every few days which is like a 2mon process . But that might now be right for you where you live .

Seriously though 6 laying hens and a chill rooster are super easy if your not a control freak

We have 6, that's enough for me and my wife and I give a couple dozen to the kids every week. You don't need a rooster unless you want to try and raise more.

Listening to the rooster in the morning is the best part! I had anywhere from 6-30. A handful is enough for fresh eggs. I let my run around until the snow hit. I only fed them in the coop. In the morning I let them out, they cruised all day and then came back to the coop to get fed. They are VERY easy to care for. Guineans were even easier.

Wolf dog nailed it. I also use a portable coup. Mine is built on a 16' car trailer. I do clean it out 3 or 4 times a year. I put wood chips down in it. The high nitrogen in the chicken poo rots it down fast. Add more chips and stur it up every 2 or 3 weeks. When its broke down and I soaked on adding chips it gets cleaned out and put in the compost pile or depending on how hot right in the garden if it will get tilled in and be a while before I plant.

Unless you go overboard, consider them as pets with benefits. The hardest part is keeping them alive. Just about everything out there likes to eat chicken. Moral to the story, don't wimp out on the chicken house. It protects them from weather in the summer, from weather in the winter and is all that stands between them and certain death.

Kept chickens for years, enjoyed it too,...but....frankly for one person ,I don't think it pays, even if you sell some surplus...even though it's not a lot of work, eggs are cheap, yeah folks say "but the eggs are better"..better than what?, its an egg, only so much you can do to them.

By the time you buy the chicks, feed them, feed them some more, build a house for them, keep them from getting eaten, it's a losing proposition...unless, you just enjoy them as a hobby and have facilities available...

By the way, I'm out of the chicken biz, and not planning to get back in...but like most things, YMMV...

Currently have 7 girls, 2 roos. Don't need 2 roos, but they get along. I like to hear them crow, it drives my wife nuts, lol. Should have ate the 2nd one, he can be a jerk. Unless the hens are molting, there's plenty of eggs for my wife and me. My kids will take a dozen here and there. In the summer I run a fan in the coop, they overheat easily. I do a deep litter, keep adding shavings as the ammonia smell increases. I shovel it out twice a year and compost it. I feed and water inside the coop, I've never had a rat ever, for over 10 years. Easy to care for, for the most part. Open coop in morning, close at sunset. I don't free range often and have never lost a bird to a predator. I give them a deer neck or ribcage in the fall/winter. They pick it clean. Good protein for them.

2 of our 3 or 4 roosters were trying to mount the same hen today when we were out planting. Plenty of humans out there but I guess that one is something special?

Be ware of chicken math. You start out with a few and they some how keep adding more to the flock.

And ...make sure your coop is built off the ground...like this.

It prevents rats from burrowing under the coop

What gcs said. I got dual purpose hens after I built the coop and all that goes with it. Built a brooder. Bought all the equipment and supplies.

I realized the hens would never be a meal once my daughter and grand-daughter gave them all names.

There's no such thing as "free eggs".

hadn't had chickens for about a year and got some baby rhode island reds and golden comets a couple weeks ago for my grandsons. i have missed having them around although they can be a pain sometimes. Around the end of may first of june here i have to really start watching them and setting DP's around the coop at night. The coons will really work on them that time of year

Not a lot of work... only real problem imo is the price of layer feed & scratch grain. But if you can get it bulk or something that would be best. Build you a decent coop, put up some chicken wire to make a little pen outside it with a little door from the coop to the pen, maybe put some chicken wire over the top too to keep out raptors and whatnot also to keep them from flying out when you don't want them to. We have 14 total right now I think; like 3 of them are roosters. We keep losing a bunch; last year at this time we had 20 something but a lot died off this past year. Planning on getting maybe 6 or so more chicks soon. With chickens around you're also going to have more pests, however, we've only lost 3 or 4 to predators over the past 10 years. I just kill everything off before they can get to the chickens lol. Right now I'm battling with a colony of rats that are living in the chicken run; as Nessy stated you want to have the coop off the ground but they can still wreak havoc in the run/pen part. I think I won the battle tho cuz I shot 5 or 6 of them and now I haven't seen any more. Anyways good luck on your chicken journey

Also we do free range them when the weather is nice; twelve hours out of the day in the spring/summer they're out and about