Egg customers crying chickens on empty shelf, high price can borrow their own chickens
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Because customers are facing empty shelves Egg prices rise rapidly With bird flu and low national supply, in supermarkets, breakfast enthusiasts have another option – their own backyard.
Founded 12 years ago, Rent The Chicken offers customers books on two egg-selling chickens, a portable chicken coop, up to 200 pounds of feed, food, water dishes and chicken care.
“Within two days of arrival, the chickens are ready to use eggs!” The company said it had a third of their homemade eggs, a third of cholesterol, a quarter of saturated fat, and two of eggs bought. We promise you have twice as many omega-3 fatty acids.
The company said, “Your rent should lay about 12-2 dozen eggs a week, depending on your rental package. You’ll know exactly what your chickens eat!”
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Breakfast enthusiasts have another option as customers face empty shelves and rapid rise in egg prices in supermarkets due to bird flu and declining national supplies – their own backyard. (Tim Graham/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Customers can schedule dates on the website or via the phone, and the company can pull out chickens and supplies already laying eggs.
Chickens can also be used for adoption if customers realize they want to keep them at the end of the rental period, the company added.
Chicken co-founder Jen Tompkins told ABC News that the phone “cries off the hook” as egg prices rise.
“Our online inquiries are also being met very quickly,” Tompkins said. “We run out of chickens that can be rented out. If anyone is interested, make sure to put their reservations up earlier than later.”
She said chickens cost around $500 to rent for about six months.
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As egg supply is declining, more and more stores are looking at empty shelves. (Getty Images)
Tompkins said that while eggs average around $20 a week, chickens offer food guarantees amid rarity.
“We’re not against the high prices of eggs,” she explained to USA Today. “We’re solving the food anxiety problem. We don’t have eggs on the shelf. People can lay eggs in their backyards.”
Brian Moscogiuri, Vice President of Eggs Unlimited The country told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that in the last decade since 2015, it has experienced the worst bird flu outbreak, the worst bird flu outbreak we’ve ever had. ”
Last year,GG prices have risen It has been 53% since January 2024, and has already increased by 15% since January this year.
Over the past three years, 153 million cases of avian influenza have been discovered in poultry.
“We have lost 120 million birds since the beginning of 2022. In the past few months alone, we have lost 45 million egg-selling hens since mid-October,” he added. “We lost a lot of production of over 13%, so we’re just dealing with the supply shortage. The virus is in three of the nation’s top egg sales states, and we’re now at a disaster. It’s nothing more than that. It doesn’t seem to stop right away.”
Last year, egg prices have risen 53% since January 2024, and have already increased 15% since January this year. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“It’s a real learning experience. Yes, you get eggs per chicken per day and you’re the one you can’t help but think of. It’s great to know you have eggs in your backyard and you’re guaranteed.”
Tompkins told Axios that birds also have additional benefits for renters.
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“Chickens offer a level of care that people didn’t know they needed,” she said.