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Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. CX can be sensitive to cold and heat, and you have to keep them dry. So when planning your growout period, bear those things in mind. If they get heat stressed too badly they can die, if they get wet and chilled by lying on the wet ground or getting rained...

I would definitely encourage you to do some CX for your family. Two batches of 25 should give you plenty of experience and a good feel for how to scale everything up. Home processing wasn't bad IMO, except it took some time. A commercial (YardBird) plucker can practically eliminate plucking...

I'd suggest starting with 25 CX and seeing how that goes. That's significantly more than 11, and will give you experience dealing with a larger batch of chicks. Then after that batch is finished, evaluate your process, change as needed, and then do a batch of 50 chickens. The gap between...