Can modern automated chicken farms make money? Or is it cost-effective for traditional free-range chickens? There are laying hens and broilers.

The reasons for raising chickens to make money are complicated. Modern automated chicken farms can make money or lose money. Traditional free-range chickens may also make money or lose money. Each farming method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and has its own suitable place, period and conditions. Under normal circumstances, the fixed capital investment of automatic chicken raising is high, but the labor saving efficiency is high. Moreover, chickens raised by automatic equipment are generally raised in cages or online, and it is more cost-effective to feed eggs than to feed meat. Automation is also graded. The price of equipment is high or low, and there is a great disparity. At present, the automation degree of most chicken farms is not high, and the labor cost of breeding is high and automation is more cost-effective. Mainly raise some high-yield laying hens and fast-growing broilers. Traditional free-range farming has less fixed investment in the early stage, and the products produced have good flavor and high price. But the market for high-end products is very narrow. But the egg-meat ratio is not cost-effective. Feed costs are high. But also has long production cycle, low labor efficiency and large occupied area. Suitable for low-cost farming on land,