setting aside regulatory issues (and not commenting on whether any of that is good or bad), there is no universe where independent chicken farmers, solo or in a group, are going to compete with a group like Perdue in the industrial foodstuff space. maybe you get a cottage industry farmer's market business going or whatever but you aren't going to see Farmer Bob's Foghorn Leghorn Boneless Breasts on shelves in the local Wally World any time soon.