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@ai6yr Its really not cost effective if you are trying to "sell for profit". We give away our extra eggs to friends and family. If your home insurance company finds out you are selling eggs they will increase the price as its added liability (somebody could get sick, etc).

We buy from a local feed store and live in rural Michigan so its not "too expensive", but its definitely not profitable with the number of hens we have.

We also feed them most of our kitchen scraps. Anything we can't feed them goes into compost. When we clean their coop or run that goes into another compost. It all ends up in our garden eventually.

When our number of chickens is running low, we incubate eggs rather than eat them.

We have no vet visits. We have lost chickens to predators, old age, and chicken intelligence. I have had to cull a few.

We don't buy them sweaters or hats.

They live in a shed that we converted into a coop. We built their run out of pine trees I cut down in the yard.

Chickens are very winter resilient as long as they can keep their feet warm.