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Not everyone has the luxury of pursuing the noble cause of losing money with their backyard flock. Nobody is suggesting that we should build industrial chicken batteries in our backyard. But, the OP has posed the reasonable question of whether it's possible to avoid losing money on a backyard flock. Most of the people here --like the person who raised the excellent idea of selling hackles for fly-tying-- are simply trying to be helpful to someone in the BYC community.
Not everyone has the luxury of pursuing the noble cause of losing money with their backyard flock. Nobody is suggesting that we should build industrial chicken batteries in our backyard. But, the OP has posed the reasonable question of whether it's possible to avoid losing money on a backyard flock. Most of the people here --like the person who raised the excellent idea of selling hackles for fly-tying-- are simply trying to be helpful to someone in the BYC community.