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?
To answer the rest of it, there are meat birds and egg layers. Meat birds grow fast and are ready to harvest in a few months. Egg layers produce more and larger eggs. We have a variety of egg layers, 9 hens and a rooster. We get between 5 and 8 eggs a day which is plenty for us.