I feel pretty safe in saying that hardly anyone on here (BYC) has ever made any substantial money on their chickens. It is just a fun hobby, and provides some safe eggs and meat (if you can eat them after raising them, which many can't). Some of the fancy fowl bring in a lot of money when you sell eggs and breeding stock, but in order to get fancy breeding stock (or eggs from fancy breeding stock) to sell, you will have had to invest big money to get good stock. If you want to sell eggs, no one I have found is interested in buying Silkie or bantam eggs to eat--you need birds who lay med. to large eggs. So any bantam type is just a fun hobby, usually. I do sell eating eggs, and I also hatch chicks thru the winter from my layers and sell pullets in the spring. This brings in some money. But all in all, I challenge anyone to show me that they have made any sort of money worth talking about, after the expense of getting started. Good Luck, and it is a fun hobby (and very addictive).
