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The thing most people forget (or don't even know) is that for every hen laying eggs, there was a little rooster chick that wound up in a grinder the day he was hatched. So if you buy five little hen chicks from the feed store for example, they had five little, now dead brothers. That's the violence in your 'happy backyard chickens' story.
As Tobi mentioned too, there's grief and violence in the milk industry too. Those cows are not only screaming for their newborns year after year, but while they are being milked, most cows nowadays don't ever leave the barn until they are trucked away to be killed at a young age.
I live in Chilliwack, BC now and it seems like most of the provinces dairy farms are within a stones throw of my place. Leave the heart of town and every time you turn around, you're looking at another dairy farm. The thing is, you never see any cows. The fields around are used to grow feed for those cows instead. So they never go outside, they never get to eat fresh grass, they never get to love their babies, they live in barns replete with manure and urine and walk on the cement all day, every day (bad for their joints just like it's bad for your joints).
Anyone who thinks that dairy/eggs are not industries of violence and suffering, frankly don't know what they're talking about.
Veganism as a diet is not that hard. It's a question of a bit of a learning curve if you're into baking, but it's imminently doable. And it's a question of eating a few more calories (eat more food). Except for a very few people who have severe digestive issues that make fibre difficult, veganism is a healthy way to eat for everyone.
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