Average cost of rasing baby chicks?

When feed is $18 a bag like it is around here, it's less expensive to buy a POL hen.

But if you can get feed for $12 a bag and sell the POL pullets for $20 you could make enough to buy a little feed.

BUT, if you are getting chicks, you'll want to get them sexed. 

If you hatch them, then you are dealing with roos and that gets expensive.

well lets figure. say 12 chicks at 4 ea.  and 1 bag of feed a month for 4 months at 13.00 ea.=56.00+52.00=108.00into it. if ya sell at 15 ea. thats180.00. then figure ur time and effort. dont leave much for profit.....

I dont know where u get 18 a bag at . here it is almost 13 a bag and I think that is 2 much.

"a bag"    ????   Just saying a bag doesn't say how big that bag is nor what brand the feed is.  

The point remains that growing out chicks to POL is costly; what with electricity, bedding, feed, and time.   Making a realized profit in selling them is tough.  Really tough.

Well, don't hate me, but we only pay $10.75 for a 50 lb. bag of chick starter here in Alabama. :)

Feed is $17 a bag for 18% chick starter, $18 for 24% at the local Tractor Supply. More expensive at the local feed store. All 50 lb bags.

$10-11 for scratch but then you need to buy grit at another $10 a bag. Layer mix is around $15.

This is in middle Tennessee.

Starting next year I'll probably mix my own feed, but I expect the price to be similar.

It is much cheaper to buy a chicken at point of lay or beyond, even, if all you want is a production chicken. They average $10-15, less if they are a bit behind point of lay. More if they are a desired breed, which in this area seems to be Sussex (Coronation fetched $75-90 per mature bird at last sale), RIR, Orpingtons. Saw a mature buff Orpington  roo sell at the local auction for around $18, and the hens around $20.

Of course, a lot depends on your location as far as prices and availability.  I don't raise production chickens (ornamental only), but I do keep an eye on the local market for them.

32 dollars a 50 lb bag of organic grower here in Sunny San Diego. Chick starter does not come organic and it costs 13 dollars for 25 lbs.The feed store owner teases me about buying organic. He says non organic is 10 bucks cheaper. But then I may as well buy my eggs at the supermarket.

I'm paying $21 for a 50 lb bag of starter. I purchased 29 sexed day olds. i already have 1/2 of them sold when they are 8 weeks old here in about a month, for $10.00 each. That leaves me 13 or 14 for my new flock. I figure I'll be okay. Not looking to make a profit though, just recover some of my cost.