Chicken really isn’t the cheapest thing out there anymore, at least where I live and I live in “chicken country.”
Your average modern chicken house holds 35,000 broiler/fryers, across the road from me there are 5 such house and the farmer has 12 more just like it on other properties - and that is just one farmer I know. With 2 processing plants in this county, it’s pretty hard to swallow low end whole chickens costing $1.29/lb on sale.
I also live in Chicken Country, in fact, it was some guy by the name of SAM WALTON who broke the economic stranglehold the chicken men had on this county.
Chicken is still cheap.
Yabut, there are a billion chinese and nearly a billion indians buying those chickens too.