Theoretically, it is possible to do anything of that, but what is missing from your business plan is selling a commodity product at scale on a competitive price. And if you somehow manage to do something like that, nothing stops the big player of your region from going to any of your clients and offer them dumping prices for ditching you or going to the local vendors of animal antibiotics and offering them premium price if they supply only chosen farmers thus squeezing you and your suppliers from both ends.
If you have a market with low margin and no differentiation between the offered stock, the gains are in size and it logically leads to a few players in the market so I doubt that the independent butchery has to be butchered and won't die of natural causes due to high costs or because a few of its partners are having a bad year.
The horrible thing is there can be lots of differentiation here. I grow my own meat birds for my own consumption, and they taste radically better than anything I’ve ever had in America. (Barring when I eat my friends’ birds.) Artisanal chicken could definitely be a thing, although it would definitely cost more.
I feel that regulatory capture is part of the problem - processing your own birds is safely is definitely possible, but what is required to process them for sale makes it so the local USDA butcher would have to charge as much for a chicken as for a sheep, and that’s just not viable.
You saying that consumers having meet on dumping/low prices is illegal? You are a communist! /s
You saying that a businessman is obliged to go against their own interest in stead of selling their meds to the highest bidder? You are a communist! /s
Free market without regulation is exactly that - freedom for those who can shape the market as they wish and no government violence necessary so it is kosher.
If you have a market with low margin and no differentiation between the offered stock, the gains are in size and it logically leads to a few players in the market so I doubt that the independent butchery has to be butchered and won't die of natural causes due to high costs or because a few of its partners are having a bad year.