Less of a hassle in most parts of the world, sure. But if you live near a swamp/bayou it’s not much of a hassle. It might actually be less since chickens have a habit of being eaten by alligators. Not a chicken but when I was a wee lad living on the bayou, a gator somehow got our gate open and went to town on a duck that landed in our yard. That was a bloody, feathery mess.