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?
Well, I’m sort of splitting the large-scale industrial method and homestead method. It depends by breed also, but I’ve raised ducks in the past, and while the schedule was different, the results of who ended up dinner were about the same. Males got 90 days to live their best lives, girls 50/50 depending on how many layers we had.