We've kept chickens for about 13 or so years now.

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.