using your math you might be able to pay for feed. If you want to 'break even' you'd better choose production type birds like Golden Comets and be less concerned with prettiness or fancy colored eggs.
"Thinking that as everyone knows, leghorns are the best layers of all breeds"
I think your sex links are proving this wrong. I looked around here before buying my girls and could find only nice things said about sex links. Well, except from folks who want their chickens to breed true even if...