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?
That sounds like a lot? We have 5x the amount of birds you have and buy 2 bags of food and a bag of cracked corn every month & a half.
I don’t really pay a ton of attention to how fast i go through it, just estimating, hence the range. :) They eat a lot more in winter tho.