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?
Ask them for a bulk purchase of 100 baby chicks and they’ll reduce the price to maybe $4. Bulk at 10,000 will probably get you to $3. Order several million per year and you’ll get $1 or even lower. Maybe even few cents per chick.
So your rotisserie at $5 still includes a modest to large profit, even including cooking, materials, shipping and handling.
I have no knowledge about the economics of live poultry, but rotisseries are generally loss leaders at grocery stores. They’re so commonly loss leaders that they’re often cited as one of the primary examples to explain the concept of a loss leader.
https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-costco-rotisserie-chicken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
My gosh. A factory that sorts the right eggs, batches them, kills the male ones, keep females alive and delivers a million of them …