Anyone planning on getting chickens with the current price of eggs?

Salmon beat me to it.
When my wife had chickens that was the most expensive eggs we ever ate.
I plan to buy them cheap from all the people that get 15 chickens and then realize that 10-12eggs a day adds up real fast.

I have 11 chickens.Pretty sure that if I did the math it would be cheaper to buy eggs considering how much feed they eat.
December and January, I didn’t get many eggs but they still eat.It’s picking up now,I got 30 last week.

We started keeping chickens a few years ago because my wife wanted to have chickens. We have 7, have had up to 10 before. Because of the taj mahal coup we had made by this outfit in North Louisiana, we will never be in the black so to speak. However, we enjoy the chickens and the eggs are a nice plus, especially these days. We probably are getting 3 dozen a week right now.

2 rhode island reds, 1 black giant, 3 buff orphingtons 1 black silkie. At one point the silkie was top of the pecking order somehow. When we introduced the 2 reds and 3 black giants (2 have succumbed to nature) somehow she dropped to the bottom of the pecking order.

Good thing for me is my parents are planning on building a chicken coop. They don't eat a ton of eggs, but my family does

I was on the hook to build their chicken coop until the retired neighbor said he was out of projects for the time being and would happily build the chicken coop.

We’ve been keeping chickens for 5 years, up to about 25 laying hens and 5 useless roosters the kids won’t let me kill. I’m looking for any excuse to get rid of them honestly. They’re a push on eggs vs feed costs but the rats are relentless unless I keep poison out constantly.

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how big are ya'lls coops, do you free range them? I live on a marina do you think i can just feed them trout carcasses?

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Yes. They will eat and thrive on just about anything. I knew an old boy in Galveston who had about 30-50 free range chickens at any given time depending on how many coyotes and dogs he could keep shot up around the place. He was a shrimper and a crabber as well as a drug dealer. part time boat builder and in general a jack of all trades and a master of none. He ran gill nets in west bay (illegally of course) and fed those chickens dead fish and rotten crabs and shrimp and they would literally fight one another over it....and they thrived! Big old fat arse chickens that produced more eggs than one could keep up with. The eggs and the chickens both ate very good also. He also shot ducks at night (Arkansased the frickers on roost ponds) and at times would have 40 or so dead ducks without a breast that those chickens would make short work of, eliminating any trace of illegal activity. They are dinosaurs, they will eat and thrive on anything. I also know a BUNCH of chicken growers in NE Georgia....they lose about 10% of each load in from canabilism. Those chickens are slaughtered at 47 days old so in a month and a half, basically, they eat about 10% of their sisters in the hen house. They also eat chicken shite and any insect that happens to find its way inside....they basically spend their entire day eating or fighting one another to keep from being eaten. Those are the chickens sold at grocery stores....feeding the trout carcasses would be an upgrade.

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how big are ya'lls coops, do you free range them? I live on a marina do you think i can just feed them trout carcasses?

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Mine was about 6-12 small mesh with roost and laying box’s on the backside. Could open the door and it was connected to a 20x20 fenced in run.
We could leave them locked up to keep the hawks or coons away which worked very well, free ranging them was preferred because it definitely cut down on feed. Drawback to that is even with almost 4ac of grass they wanted to shite on the carport and lay eggs on the porch.
Hawks will do a number on them as well and you will keep losing them until you kill the hawk, so I have been told.

We've had a couple dozen now for last 10 years or so, and I'll echo this comment that they will eat anything.
I've got a ton of wild hogs on my place where I live, and probaly shoot and clean one every week or every other week. Ibstarted throwing the carcasses after I clean them put in the free range area of our chicken coop, and 20 chickens will make as quick of work of a wild pig carcass as buzzards or coyotes ever will.

My mom keeps between 7 to 10 hens and 1 rooster most of the time. When she gets low on hens, she'll let one sit on the nest to hatch some more chicks.

Hers go in a 20'x20' pen with a separate coup and other roosting bars set up inside the main pen.

She lets them out in the morning and they go back in by themselves about 30 minutes before dark.

By free ranging them, she saves on feed, but she still throws a couple handfuls of chicken scratch out for them each morning. They also eat almost all leftovers, ends of celery, their own egg shells, etc.

She keeps her house, mine, my sister's, and my in-laws very well stocked with eggs.

I make pickled eggs a lot because they keep longer. Hard to keep my buddies out of them though.