Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches?

So let's say you live in a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. For whatever reason, this world is now infested with cockroaches the size of chickens (similar to radroaches from the Fallout games, but ignore the radiation).

My question, then, is would it be better for a chicken farmer to keep on raising chickens, or switch to roach farming?

Assume the roaches are the same mass as the chickens, but otherwise very similar to ordinary cockroaches. Also assume that the chickens and the roaches would be fed the same food. What I want to know is which one would be most cost-efficient for calories per dollar of feed?

If it's implausible to consider such large cockroaches, you could alternately answer based on a collection of cockroaches adding up to the same mass.

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