I do not understand the mathematics behind the dilemma. I’m assuming only the firts chicks cost money, because down the line they will breed.
But feeding them, housing them - vitamins and doctoring costs a lot of money.
So anyone with couple or more chickens - how much does it cost to have them on the table? And realistically how many eggs do you get?
The rotisserie near my house buy their chickens for about 2 euros or less per chicken, but they’re buying 200 chickens at a time, and probably directly from the nearest slaughterhouse.