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Ok here is what you do. According to industry standards a brown egg layer will consume 4oz of feed daily.
take 50 x 16 to get how many ounces in a bag of feed. 40 if bought at Atwoods.
there are 800 ounces in a 50lb bag of feed.
I am going to use 10 dollars for the price of the feed, anyway you divide 10 by 800 which comes to .0125 which is what the feed costs per ounce.
Next take .0125 x 4 because the hen will eat about 4 oz. which is .05 or a nickle and if she lays daily that is what the egg will cost in feed.
Now I did say cost in feed, you still have water, equipment and labor to consider so 2.50 may be a good break-even for the small breeder. The big guys are automated so even though their equipment costs are higher their input costs for labor are much, much less and the equipment is figured for the life of the equipment.