There’s no such thing as large eggs anymore. No matter what the carton says, they’re all small and verging on teeny tiny.
Take that $150 and buy some laying hens and start a garden.
Sounds as if they're to the point that laying hens and seed corn would be stolen and eaten. So, probably wouldn't work unless you were way, way out in the country and had the means to defend it.
Now, we can hope that Shrillary lays an egg.
In Venezuela, I am sure that if your neighbor saw your chicken in your yard, it would probably be gone that very night.
Hunger doesn't make sense, much less common sense.
When you have hunger in your family, you don't think logically about whether it produces eggs (high protein), you just see an immediate need to cure to the family hunger.
If hungry enough, and even the family pet isn't safe.