The study attempts to identify the costs, returns, profitability, employment and income generated through the private poultry farming in Kishoreganj district. In total 150 broiler farms were randomly selected from Kishoreganj Sadar Upazila and Katiadi Upazila. The field level data were collected during November 2004 to January 2005 through direct interviews with broiler farmers. The study shown that the gross return per farm per year was Tk. 7,85,600, per batch per farm was Tk. 1,17,079 and per bird per batch was Tk. 76.12. Costs of feed, day-old-chicks, human labour and veterinary charges were the key inputs affecting the profitability of broiler farms. The summation of elasticity of different inputs for broiler farms was less than one, implying that the production function exhibited a decreasing returns to scale i.e., doubling the inputs would less than double the output. Most of the family labour came from female especially small farms (38 per cent) which mean that the private poultry farming creates the job opportunities for the farm families. It is also observed that the small, medium, large and all broiler farms could save annually a good portion of their income earned from the poultry farming venture.