Around here (Panama), buying chicks is like buying a pig in a poke, you never know what you're gonna get until you've got several months worth of feed in them, and then you're not sure of their behavior until their hormones kick in at adolescence. Even at $0.25 a pound on feed (pre-covid price), one could expect to have a full grown, ready to provide meat or eggs birds for about $8 worth of feed. The FEED is supposed to be the expensive part of keeping chickens...
The price of admission on your poll starts at $20 and goes up, per chick... I'm afraid you've exceeded my willingness to pay.
I have never paid over $3 a chick, and that price is for the pricier 'meat bird' chicks. I now only pay electricity (to run the incubator with automatic turner) to obtain new chicks, and periodically purchase a couple dozen eggs from a neighbor-lady as she has a flock of 30 or more hens running with 4 roosters. She sells her eggs for $3 a dozen with zero guarantee that they're even fertile as she sells them for human consumption.
